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When Parenting Style Predicts Political Leanings

In the first study, the researchers asked 99 participants, nearly half with children, 19 questions to identify factors that influence acceptance of paternalistic policies. To the researchers' surprise, parenting approach was the best predictor for paternalistic policy adoption, more so than political ideology, political party identity and other demographics. "I was surprised how these results...
By Stacy Kish |
State of AANHPIs

Report: Asian Americans have highest language assistance needs, some have higher rates of poverty

A new national report released in June by AAPI Data, a publisher of demographic data and policy research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, detailed stark contrasts between AANHPI population groups when it comes to language proficiency, education, poverty rates and housing in the U.S. Despite this, many public and private agencies continue to group...
By Katie Kim, ABC 10 |

When Parenting Style Predicts Political Leanings

In the first study, the researchers asked 99 participants, nearly half with children, 19 questions to identify factors that influence acceptance of paternalistic policies. To the researchers’ surprise, parenting approach was the best predictor for paternalistic policy adoption, more so than political ideology, political party identity and other demographics. “I was surprised how these results...
By Carnegie Mellon University |

Central Florida grassroots initiative all about amplifying AAPI voices through voting

“Now, more so than ever, our country is facing critical issues ranging from rising gas prices, inflation, abortion rights, hate crimes, gun control, immigration and more. It is important for the AAPI community to come together to have our voices heard. This is one step forward to participating in our democracy and a huge step...
By Samantha Dunne |
Stop Asian Hate rally

The Rise in Asian Hate is Taking a Mental Toll on New York’s Asian and Pacific Islander Community

Racism, which results in mental and physical trauma, is a primary cause in the rise of mental health issues across AAPI communities. In a recent national survey by AAPI Data and Momentive, anti-Asian hate crimes have increased during the pandemic: 1 in 6 Asian American adults reported experiencing a hate crime in 2021, up from...
By Qian Gu, Raymond Xu, & Seth Resnick |

Many Americans still fail to notice that anti-Asian violence and racism have surged: researcher

LOS ANGELES, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Many Americans still fail to notice that anti-Asian violence and racism have surged since the Atlanta massacre last year that left eight dead, including six Asian women, an American researcher has said. Anti-Asian hate crimes have increased since the start of the pandemic: 1 in 6 Asian American adults...
By Liang Jun |

Confronting the invisibility of anti-Asian racism

Last week, a gunman opened fire in a Korean-owned hair salon in the Koreatown section of Dallas, Texas and shot three Korean women who suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The police are now investigating this as a hate crime that may be linked to two other shootings of Asian-owned businesses in the area. Anti-Asian violence and racism...
By Jennifer Lee |

AAPI Heritage Month: Everything You Were Too Self-Conscious to Ask

An acronym for Asian American and Pacific Islander, AAPI encompasses a sprawling population, from naturalized immigrants to second-, third- or fourth-generation Americans of Asian or Pacific Islander background. Data compiled by the United States Census Bureau in 2020 revealed that 25.6 million American citizens identify as AAPI, accounting for 8.04% of the country’s population. Read...
By Beatrice Tamagno |

Asian Americans least likely to feel like they belong in US, study finds

Violence against Asian Americans have been on the rise. The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino have found anti-Asian hate crimes increased 339% in 2021 compared to 2020. Similarly, AAPI Data that one in six Asian American adults experienced a hate crime or hate incident in 2021...
By Pamela Parker |

More Americans are blaming Asian Americans for COVID-19, survey reveals

The survey also found that Americans still largely subscribe to the model minority myth. When asked how they would describe Asian Americans, 39% said they are kind or nice, 36% said they are intelligent or smart, and 23% said they are hardworking. LAAUNCH and TAAF are reportedly working with leading research and data organizations such...
By Carl Samson |

Annual Survey Reveals Overall Perceptions of Asian Americans are Worsening in the U.S. as Most Americans Fail to Understand Asian American Experiences

LAAUNCH and TAAF are working closely with leading AAPI scholars and research/data organizations, including AAPI Data and Stop AAPI Hate, to raise awareness about the Index's results and pursue actionable programming that tackles bias against Asian Americans. For example, TAAF's areas of focus include improving public education curricula so that AAPI history is better taught...
By The Asian American Foundation |

Disaggregation is essential to achieve data justice for Asian Americans

In New York, the fight for data disaggregation recently secured a major victory after over a decade of work by CACF and other organizations through their Invisible No More campaign. That campaign helped author and pass AB 6896, which requires that state data for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders be broken down into 14 different...
By Jenn Fang |

AANHPI Heritage Month: Celebrate Central Florida’s Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander community

Orange County now has the largest Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander population in Florida, according to statistics released by AAPI Data in 2020. The county’s AANHPI population, previously outnumbered only by Broward County, has grown by over 5,000 people, a spurt closely followed in Broward and Hillsborough counties, respectively, with a quarter of all...
By Samantha Dunne |

Give in May to Raise Funds for AAPI Nonprofits

Give In May is a giving campaign to support nonprofits across the nation who are dedicated to addressing the needs of the Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Last year, we raised over $725k with an additional $204k in prizes for 170+ participating nonprofits to aid ongoing COVID-19 efforts and to address anti-Asian racism...
People rally calling for action and awareness on rising incidents of hate crime against Asian-Americans in Times Square.

Asian-Americans are not a monolith

Not all in the AAPI community agree that data should be disaggregated. When Massachusetts tried to pass a law to disaggregate data in 2018, the Coalition Against Profiling decried the bill as racist because it only targeted Asian communities. They worried that data collected could be used to discriminate during school or job applications, but...
By Saatvik Ahluwalia |

Cal Poly Awarded California 100 Grant For Agricultural Research

Issues they’ll tackle include water shortages and rising temperatures, Telesetsky said. The research will be completed by the summer of 2022. California 100 Executive Director Karthick Ramakrishnan said he was excited to have Cal Poly as a partner, as its “contributions will be invaluable to [California 100’s] research stream and to charting a vision and...
By TINI NGUYEN |
Michigan activists Ceena Vang and Zora Bowens protesting anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander violence and hate after Atlanta spa shootings in 2021.

How violence against Asian Americans has grown and how to stop it, according to activists

The most recent report from Stop AAPI Hate, a coalition that tracks hate incidents and hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S., shows that from March 2020 to December 2021, almost 11,000 hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were self-reported to the organization. Nearly 62 percent of those incidents...
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang |

New digital platform — IE Giving Hub — connects local nonprofits, philanthropists

In its April 2020 “State of Nonprofits in the Inland Empire” report, the UCR Center for Social Innovation noted that a “strong and vibrant nonprofit sector” can have many positive impacts on the region. This includes the creation of jobs with significantly better pay than other private-sector jobs, increased equity, stronger public-private partnerships, and inclusive...
By REBECCA K. O’CONNOR |

Bold visions and strategies for California’s next century

“As California Goes, So Goes the Nation, Alas.” That was a headline from a Los Angeles Times opinion column from April 1989, which noted that, even though “Californians have long considered their state the cutting edge of social and political change… [it] no longer seems the vanguard of political innovation. Other states rarely look to...
By HENRY E BRADY and KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN |

Column: A search for answers to anti-Asian violence

“Prior to this I didn’t feel the whole Asian hate component. It wasn’t affecting me or anybody I know,” Yu said. “Now it’s like, there is a bit of fear and anxiety. What’s going on?” Yu isn’t alone. A survey released last week by the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs finds that 1 in...
By Frank Shyong |