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, identity, affirmative action, global affairs, policy 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. RE_2023.11.30_Asian-American-Discrimination_Report
Equality Labs | Anti-Doxing Guide for Activists Equality Labs is a transnational South Asian feminist organization working at the cutting-edge intersections of organizing, art, and digital security to end caste apartheid, gender-based violence, Islamophobia, and religious intolerance. It is composed of artists, advocates, healers, technologists and organizers working on intractable systems of oppression through a collaborative solution-making model for movements. Since Equality Labs published its first anti-doxing guide in 2017, the practice of doxing has evolved dramatically. Its team team wanted to revisit this topic and give communities the opportunity to take digital security into their own hands. Equity Labs hope that this guide will encourage and prepare you to build a comprehensive safety plan within your communities. It has created this anti-doxing guide to support activists around the world who may be targeted for resisting white supremacy, Islamophobia, casteism, antisemitism, anti-LGBTQ+ harassment, or any form of authoritarianism. Read the guide below, and see its website for more research and publications. ADVANCE-COPY_-EQUALITY-LABS-ANTI-DOXING-GUIDE-FOR-ACTIVISTS-3.0
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Civic and Political Life of California’s Asian Americans Written by Milan Vaishnav and Nitya Labh and published in February 2023, this is the fourth in a series of articles that explore the political and social preferences of Asian Americans in California, a state where today Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders make up nearly 16 percent of the state’s population. Like the others in the series, this article draws on a 2022 online survey of 1,000 California-based Asian Americans conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in partnership with the data and analytics firm YouGov. The sample includes respondents from twenty-one Asian-origin groups but excludes Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. Specifically, this article examines patterns of civic and political engagement among California’s Asian Americans. It focuses on how respondents engage with their communities, how they relate to politics, and how they interact with political campaigns—both as campaign contributors and consumers. The first article in this series explored the political preferences of the community in the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections, while the second looked at their policy preferences, and the third unpacked the nature of Asian American identity. The fifth and final article in this series will explore the community’s foreign policy attitudes. Read the article below or access it at this link. Vaishnav_Asian_American_civic_political
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.
Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World Standing at the juncture of white supremacy and anti-Blackness, Asian Americans have been imagined as not-white but above all not-Black –as undesirable but the lesser of two evils–for almost two centuries. In her explosive new book, Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World, Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D., argues that Asian Americans have benefited from anti-Blackness at the same time that they have been burdened by white supremacy. Throughout history, they have been weaponized against (and have sometimes weaponized themselves against) the Black freedom struggle and used as an alibi for a racial capitalist U.S. state whose legitimacy is often in question. For whites, the principle is: Whiteness is best, but the most important thing is not-Blackness. Or, better Asians than Blacks. This is key to understanding how Asian Americans have been positioned and how they have negotiated their social and economic mobility in an anti-Black society. This event, hosted on June 13, 2023, featured Dr. Claire Jean Kim in conversation with Dr. Charlene Sinclair, Colorlines’ Editor, to discuss how these theories might guide Black and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities into solidarity with one another. This event was co-organized by the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund and Colorlines, and co-sponsored by the National AAPI Power Fund, California Black Freedom Fund, Four Freedoms Fund, Groundswell Fund, Groundswell Action Fund, and the RISE Together Fund.
Behind Closed Doors | Part 4 This four-part webinar series took place from December 2022 to March 2023. It was hosted by the USC Price School and its Center for Inclusive Democracy, the California Black Freedom Fund, the Latino Community Foundation, and the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund. The fourth and last part of these moderated sessions explored the entrenchment of racism in U.S. politics, and its impact on political power and representation in communities. Titled “Behind Closed Doors,” these sessions served as a public space for open and challenging conversations examining the nation’s entrenched relationship between racism and politics, a situation recently brought further into the spotlight by the secret recording of a meeting of Los Angeles City Council members making racist remarks. Watch the full video below, or click here to watch the webinar highlights. Moderator: Mindy Romero, Founder and Director, Center for Inclusive Democracy, USC Price School Panelists: Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, Los Angeles City Councilmember – District 1 Lian Cheun, Executive Director, Khmer Girls in Action Peggy Moore, Principal & Co-Owner at Hope Action Change Consulting
Behind Closed Doors | Part 3 This four-part webinar series took place from December 2022 to March 2023. It was hosted by the USC Price School and its Center for Inclusive Democracy, the California Black Freedom Fund, the Latino Community Foundation, and the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund. Part three of these moderated sessions explored the entrenchment of racism in U.S. politics, and its impact on political power and representation in communities. Titled “Behind Closed Doors,” these sessions served as a public space for open and challenging conversations examining the nation’s entrenched relationship between racism and politics, a situation recently brought further into the spotlight by the secret recording of a meeting of Los Angeles City Council members making racist remarks. Watch the full video below, or click here to watch the webinar highlights. Moderator: Amy Dominguez-Arms Philanthropic/Nonprofit Consultant Panelists: Pablo Rodriguez Executive Director, Communities for a New California Hector Sanchez Deputy Political Director, Community Coalition Cha Vang Deputy Director, AAPIs for Civic Empowerment James Woodson Executive Director, California Black Power Network
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. AAAJ-Atlanta_AAPIVotingReport_final_PR_JL_Edited_Finalv4
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. Breaking-Barriers-to-the-Ballot-Box-2023-with-Appendix
CAA | Immigrant Voting and the Movement for Inclusion in San Francisco “Immigrant Voting and the Movement for Inclusion in San Francisco” was released by Chinese for Affirmative Action in partnership with the Immigrant Parent Voting Collaborative. This report provides an overview of the fight to win immigrant voting legislation in San Francisco, a law also known as “noncitizen voting,” and the effects noncitizen voting has had on immigrant empowerment. The report shares how the program affected immigrants in San Francisco, the barriers they face in exercising their voting rights, and best practices community organizers have used to try to overcome those barriers. Read the report below, and access the executive summary as well as report appendices in multiple languages including Amharic, Arabic, Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese on their website. 23-CAA-ImmigrationVotingReport-F2