Unlike the Asian American communities in California and New York, which took root more than a century ago, Nevada’s is relatively new to the state. Many Asian Americans have moved to Nevada in recent years from California, seeking a lower cost of living and plentiful jobs in health care and hospitality. Others are businesspeople or...
"I see this race as a kind of wake-up call that the API community is vast and important," Joe said. "Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial demographic in this country, and they do vote. Georgia showed us in 2020 how critical these voters can be in swinging things. And we're seeing that again today."...
"I see this race as a kind of wake-up call that the API community is vast and important," Joe said. "Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial demographic in this country, and they do vote. Georgia showed us in 2020 how critical these voters can be in swinging things. And we're seeing that again today."...
Riverside, CA - the IE Data Summit on Health and Well-Being, hosted in partnership with CSI-UCR and IE RISE, took place Wednesday, November 2, 2022 via Zoom. This was the second IE Data Summit, which is now taking place as a quarterly event with rotating topics. This IE Data Summit focused on health and well-being...
I'm Ailsa Chang in Culver City, Calif., which is a state that's usually pretty predictable during election season - but this year, there are several competitive House races happening in Orange County, which has been a Republican stronghold for nearly a century, but has veered left in recent decades. One force behind that shift is...
Turnout typically determines results in any given election year. If recent trends hold, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders could sway this year’s midterms more than ever before. Laura Barrón-López spoke with Christine Chen of APIAVote and Karthick Ramakrishnan of the University of California, Riverside to look into what’s driving AAPI voters to the polls. Watch...
Proportionality logic has spawned an unintended consequence for Asian Americans. Over time, and for a host of complicated reasons, Asian Americans came to be regarded widely as “overrepresented,” undermining their claims to beleaguered minority status. This uncertainty helps to explain why Asian Americans have become a wild card in race politics, an unpredictable fit in...
Riverside, CA - The Inland Empire has two of the fastest growing counties in the country, and is undergoing a breakthrough moment with respect to innovation and community impact. Critical to that advancement is the strategic deployment of data and research, community narrative, and collective action, what the Center for Social Innovation calls “DNA: Data...
Is the L.A. City Council—overshadowed as it is by the mayor, five county supervisors, and powerful state and national politicians—still worth the trouble and embarrassment? Can the body be saved by reforms, or by making it bigger? Or should L.A. replace its council altogether and turn instead to innovative methods of government decision-making—from lottery-selected citizens’...
A Washington Post poll found that 63 percent of adults support the Supreme Court banning colleges and universities from considering a student’s race and ethnicity when making decisions about student admissions. At the same time, 64% also say that in general, programs designed to increase the racial diversity of students on college campuses are a...
“They don’t forget who helped them and they come back, we all come back,” Gallegos said. A pendulum passing forward the critical resources they once needed, while pushing the growing footprint of Latino voters to exercise this power at the polls. According to a recent data profile by UC Riverside’s Center for Social Innovation, there...
Health care, jobs and the economy, crime, education, gun control and the environment are the top issues for Asian Americans for deciding their votes in the November 8 midterm elections, according to a recent survey. Voting rights and addressing racism were also important issues for them, according to the bi-annual survey by Asian and Pacific...
Anti-Asian violence, brutal physical assaults, and heinous murders of Asian Americans during the pandemic have captured the nation’s attention, but far more common are incidents like the one I experienced. Last year, 33% of Asian Americans have been called names or insulted, 30% have been the target of offensive physical gestures, 11% have been coughed...
Anti-Asian violence, brutal physical assaults, and heinous murders of Asian Americans during the pandemic have captured the nation’s attention, but far more common are incidents like the one I experienced. Last year, 33% of Asian Americans have been called names or insulted, 30% have been the target of offensive physical gestures, 11% have been coughed...
The Nov. 8 Election Day is a little more than a month away, and local organizations are trying to get more Latinos and Hispanics to register to vote and participate in the upcoming election. According to "A Data Profile of Latinos in the Inland Empire" done by UCR Center for Social Innovation, voter registration and...
Over 130 high school and college students met at UC Riverside for a youth summit Saturday, Oct. 1, to discuss civic engagement and other issues related to facilitating change in their communities. California Freedom Summer, a project led by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, in partnership with the Center for Social Innovation at UC...
Riverside, CA – California Freedom Summer (CFS), a project by UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, in partnership with the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside’s Intercollegiate Council of California-Inland Empire, hosted a Youth Leadership Conference on Saturday, October 1st, 2022 at UC Riverside. The project, led by Researcher Dr. Veronica Terriquez, included a series...
WONG: And I'm Wailin Wong. Today on the show, how we ended up with this weirdly broad and - some would argue - nonsensical racial category. We'll talk about why it matters and whether there's a better way to understand the fastest-growing demographic in the country. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MA: What do people think of...
What is AAPI? It stands for Asian American and Pacific Islander, but this racial category that's often used by the U.S Census is broad and rather ambiguous. Underneath this arbitrary grouping, at least twenty different countries, places, and a plethora of diverse cultures are nested under the umbrella term. Today on the show, we explore...
