[Reading 1]
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC)
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC)
Between 2007 and 2011, 56% of NHPI were facing an economic state that was higher than any other racial group.
What is poverty?
The author of Asians in the Ivory Tower: Dilemmas of Racial Inequality in American Higher Education. Multicultural Education Series
Who is Dr. Teranishi
Former President Barack Obama appointed Dr. Teranishi to this board.
What is the National Board for the Institute for Educational Services.
(The research and evaluation arm of the US Department of Education).
This stereotype portrays Asian Americans as universally successful, hardworking, and academically high-achieving.
What is the model minority myth?
Characters who have traits that continue to portray AAPI communities in a stereotypical way.
What is stereotype-confirming representation?
The percentage by which the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander population grew between the years 2000 and 2010.
What is 40%?
This group is often excluded from research on racial inequality because U.S. race frameworks are traditionally defined as a Black–White binary.
Who are Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs)?
Dr. Teranishi got his B.A from this university and in this subject.
What is a B.A from UC Santa Cruz in Sociology.
The “model minority” image gained popularity during this decade, alongside media attention and census data.
What is the 1960s?
Characters who demonstrate traits that resist racist stereotypes about AAPI communities in the media.
What is stereotype-resisting representation?
The percentage of 18-24 year old NHPI enrolled in college.
What is 38%?
This individual’s admissions case was frequently cited to argue that Asian Americans were harmed by affirmative action policies in elite university admissions.
Who is Jian Li?
Dr. Teranishi’s works were referenced in this landmark Supreme Court case.
What is Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College
According to the reading, Asian Americans hold far fewer positions in this group compared to their representation among faculty.
What are college administrators?
The stereotype that desexualized AAPI men in western media as a way to weaponize their identities during wartime or to amplify Western (Anglo) fears of Asian immigrants.
What is “yellow peril?”
According to the reading, doing this in public education is a vital step toward addressing disparities and improving opportunities for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students.
What is promoting educational attainment? Or What is promoting equal opportunity and diversity?
Teranishi argues that this common research approach falsely assumes racial groups are internally homogeneous, leading to misleading comparisons in educational outcomes.
What is comparative racial research?
The congressional acts Dr. Teranishi testified for.
What is the Higher Education Reauthorization Act, Collect Cost Reduction and Affordability Act, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Suzuki concludes that the “model minority” stereotype is not just inaccurate, but ultimately [this] for Asian Americans.
What is harmful (or a liability)?
The ways in which people internalize others’ perception of one’s self based on the views of society.
What is “social mirroring”?
One policy to help address concerns with the NHPI community's educational needs.
What is: (one of the following)
Supporting intervention programs
Family support
Counseling
Requiring educational institutions to build stronger relationships with NHPI parents and stakeholders
Supporting culturally relevant programs in education
Hiring NHPI educators and support staff in educational institutions
Teranishi argues that using this lens reveals how educational inequality persists through institutional practices that advantage or disadvantage entire racial categories, even when individual achievement is similar.
What is the categorical lens?
The reason for Dr. Teranishi’s initial rejection from UC Santa Cruz (and other colleges)
What is racism within the American school system? (School purposefully put Dr. Teranishi in an ELA class his freshman year which resulted in him not completing his A-G (formerly A-F) requirements for the UC).
Suzuki uses this metaphor to describe the invisible barrier that limits Asian Americans’ advancement into leadership and management positions despite high education levels.
What is the glass ceiling?
The stereotype of AAPI in media that complicates ERI (ethnic-racial identity) formation of AAPI and positions AAPI characters as the foreign “other.”
What is “perpetual foreigner”?