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Zinn Education Project | Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction

This national report was released on January 2022 as a part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach Reconstruction Campaign. It represents a comprehensive effort by the Zinn Education Project to understand Reconstruction’s place in state social studies standards across the United States, examine the nature and extent of the barriers to teaching effective Reconstruction history, and make focused recommendations for improvement.

Using its Reconstruction standards as a guide, the Zinn Education Project examined course requirements, frameworks, and support for teachers from 2019 to 2021. It also included stories about creative efforts by districts and/or individual teachers in each state to teach outside the textbook about Reconstruction.

A 44-page PDF of the report is available for download at this link. Visit the website for archival materials, additional links to education materials, and an interactive web version of the report.

Pew Research Center | Discrimination Experiences Shape Most Asian Americans’ Lives

Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to understand Asian Americans’ experiences with discrimination in the United States and their views of anti-Asian racism in the country. This report is the latest in the Center’s in-depth analysis of public opinion among Asian Americans.

The data in this report comes from two main sources. The first is a nationally representative survey of 7,006 Asian adults exploring the experiences, attitudes and views of Asians living in the U.S. on several topics, including discrimination and racism in America, identityaffirmative actionglobal affairspolicy priorities and religious identities. The survey sampled U.S. adults who self-identify as Asian, either alone or in combination with other races or Hispanic ethnicity. It was offered in six languages: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), English, Hindi, Korean, Tagalog and Vietnamese. Responses were collected from July 5, 2022, to Jan. 27, 2023, by Westat on behalf of Pew Research Center.

Read the 10-page report, data, interviews, and graphics at this link or see below.

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UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute | Latino Data Hub

Developed by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute the Latino Data Hub was launched in 2023 as a fully bilingual user-friendly data platform. It offers customizable visualizations across key indicators, including demographics, health care access, education, income, and employment. Users can further dig into the data by exploring factors such as Latino descent, race, sex, citizenship, and English proficiency, spanning national, state, and county levels.

Learn more through the video below, and visit the Latino Data Hub at this link.

AAAJ-ATL | Growing Asian American Voter Power and Pushback

Published by Asian Americans Advancing Justice- Atlanta (AAAJ-Atlanta) and written by its Director of Policy Advocacy, Jennifer Lee, this report discusses the growth of AAPI communities in Georgia and the corresponding increase in turnout as well as the impact of Senate Bill 202, which was passed by the Georgia legislature after the 2020 amendment.

Senate Bill 202 has created notable provisions which have created barriers and burdens to absentee voting. Among the findings shared in the report:

  • Georgia’s AAPI population grew by 48 percent in ten years.
  • Between 2018 and 2022, turnout rates among AAPI voters increased by seven percentage points.
  • SB 202 created new restrictions on absentee voting that disproportionately harms AAPI voters, who were more than twice as likely as white voters to vote by mail.
  • SB 202 reduced the time to request an absentee ballot and eliminated absentee ballot dropbox locations where most AAPI voters live.
  • Asian-Americans experienced the steepest decline in absentee voting rates and are more than twice as likely than white voters to have their absentee ballots rejected.

Read the report below, which includes an analysis on Georgia’s growing AAPI population, the specific impacts of SB 202 on AAPI communities, and AAAJ-Atlanta’s policy recommendations.

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CAA | Breaking Barriers to the Ballot Box: Expanding Language Access for CA Voters

“Breaking Barriers to the Ballot Box: Expanding Language Access for California Voters” was co-authored by Chinese for Affirmative Action with other members of the California Language Access Workgroup. The first of its kind, this report provides a roadmap to ensure that all voters, regardless of their English language proficiency, can vote fairly and equally. It explores four key aspects: the voting experience, federal and state laws, the importance of in-language materials, and data limitations for identifying populations in California who use non-English languages.  

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SEARAC and EPIC | Report on COVID-19’s Impact on NHPI/SAA Youth Mental Health

This report was written in collaboration with researches from Illinois and Maryland whose work focuses on racially marginalized groups and the Asian American Pacific Islander Coalition Helping Achieve Racial and Gender Equality (AAPI CHARGE), which includes AAPI Civic Engagement Fund grantees Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC) and Khmer Girls in Action.

Voices Unheard highlights the experiences of more than 200 respondents and focuses on Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) and Southeast Asian American (SEAA) youth. The report touches on the pandemic’s effect on mental wellness, the importance of culturally appropriate mental health support, and Southeast Asia Resource Action Center’s (SEARAC) recommendations to reduce barriers to mental healthcare in California.

In addition, EPIC and SEARAC also launched fact sheets highlighting mental health research on Southeast Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander youth. These are available in eight languages including English, Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Mien, Samoan, Tongan, and Vietnamese.

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AAAJ-Atlanta | Report on Linguistic Diversity in GA

More than 1.4 million (14.3%) Georgia residents speak a language other than English at home. This report published by Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta seeks to highlight the state’s linguistic diversity for community organizations, advocates, legislators, county and state administrators, and the media. This data can be used to identify policy priorities around language access and equity, advocacy efforts, and community needs for translation and interpretation.

Additionally, this is published with the hope that this report serve as a roadmap for those seeking to address linguistic barriers faced by those with a non-English language preference so that every Georgian can access healthcare, educational opportunities and the democratic process regardless of which language they speak and read.

Catalist | Analysis of AAPI Voters in the 2022 Midterms

On May 18, 2023, Catalist published a comprehensive voter file analysis of the 2022 midterm with demographic breakdowns and a comparison of heavily contested and less contested elections. This was the first in a series of reports on What Happened in the 2022 general election from the perspective of the Catalist voter database, the longest-running outside the two major political parties.

Building on its national What Happened analysis, Catalist produced 2022 Constituency Reports on October 19, 2023, to offer deep dives on specific constituency groups, including Black, Latino, AAPI, youth and women voters. As with Catalist’s 2022 What Happened report, these reports focus on the national House vote, different voting patterns in states with highly contested versus less contested statewide elections, and state-level performance. The reports also explore registration, primary voting, and ongoing shifts in which methods people use to vote. 

On AAPI voters, Catalist found:

“Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are a rapidly growing and diversifying group in the United States and their voter engagement and participation have kept pace with this extraordinary growth. AAPI communities comprise a rapidly expanding share of registrants and voters and continue to support Democratic candidates at high rates. In a warning sign, however, Democratic support among AAPI voters declined between the 2020 Presidential election and the 2022 midterms nationally and in states with highly contested Senate and Gubernatorial races. Although our estimates suggest the decline was considerably smaller in highly contested states than nationally, there is greater uncertainty around shifts in highly contested 2022 states because of the relatively small share of the electorate in these states comprised of AAPI voters.

AAPI registered voters have grown sharply as a share of all registered voters from 2014 to 2022, mirroring their population growth. These changes also reflect relatively high registration and turnout rates in recent elections, with AAPI turnout in 2022 notably remaining stable even when compared to the high-salience midterm of 2018. Their vote share nationally was 4 percent in both of the last two midterms. In states with highly contested 2022 Senate and Gubernatorial contests, where there is a relatively lower concentration of AAPI residents, their vote share also remained stable over this period, at 2 percent.

AAPI voters continued to support Democrats at high rates. Both nationally and in highly contested states, about 6 in 10 AAPI voters are estimated to have voted Democratic. Despite being a relatively smaller share of Democrats’ multi-racial coalition than Black, Latino or white voters, in multiple close battleground races, the number of AAPI Democratic voters exceeded the win margins, underscoring the pivotal nature of this constituency. 

Nationally, however, Democratic support among AAPI voters declined by 7 percentage points between the 2020 Presidential election and 2022 House contests. Support declines in highly contested states were considerably smaller at an estimated 2 points. Our estimates also suggest that decreases in Democratic support were smaller among young AAPI voters and among AAPI voters in states with highly contested Senate and Gubernatorial elections. 

Finally, the composition of the AAPI electorate shifted along some demographic dimensions and remained stable along others across the last three midterm elections. Relative to 2014 and 2018, the 2022 AAPI electorate included slightly higher shares of Gen Z and Millennial voters, non-married voters, and suburban voters. Over this same period the composition of the AAPI electorate remained stable by gender and educational attainment. 

This report examines in close detail levels and trends across recent election cycles in registration, vote share, support, and vote method among AAPI voters, breaking out these topics by state and sub-constituency as relevant to illuminate key findings.”

Click this link read the details and access graphics and charts from Catalist’s 2022 Constituency Report on AAPI Voters.

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STOP AAPI HATE | Report on Civil Rights Protections Against Racism

To better understand AAPI experiences with discrimination and civil rights violations since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Stop AAPI Hate commissioned NORC at the University of Chicago to conduct a nationally representative survey of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

This landmark survey adds to community-generated data at Stop AAPI Hate and existing research to provide a more complete picture of the discrimination that impacts Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the changes needed to uphold the civil rights that protect us all. The report, Righting Wrongs: How Civil Rights Can Protect Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Against Racism, examines the survey findings, highlights current federal laws that protect our rights, and recommends new laws to strengthen these protections.