SAGE Journal Articles

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Factors Influencing Attitudes towards Seeking Professional Help among East and Southeast Asian Immigrant and Refugee Women
Kenneth Fung & Yuk-Lin Renita Wong
International Journal of Social Psychiatry (2007) 53 , p. 216 (13 pages)

This article explores the attitudes of Asian American immigrants and refugees towards mental health care. The authors studied women from five ethnic minority communities because they have lower rates of mental health service utilization.

Asian American Women And Racialized Femininities: “Doing” Gender across Cultural Worlds
Karen D. Pyke and Denise L. Johnson
Gender & Society 2003 17: 33 (22 pages)

This article examines the ways that Asian American women ‘do’ gender across both ethnic Asian and mainstream social settings, looking more generally at the ways in which gendered cultural worlds are constructed.  The study finds that young Asian American women construct a highly rigid and patriarchal world that is named as Asian, and a more egalitarian and flexible world that is named as mainstream white and American.  The authors argue that “Asian American and white American women serve in these accounts as uniform categorical representations of the opposing forces of female oppression and egalitarianism” where “the relational construction of hegemonic and subordinated femininities, as revealed through controlling images that denigrate Asian forms of gender, contribute to internalized oppression and shape the doing of ethnicity” (33).

Colorblind Racism and Institutional Actors’ Explanations of Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Tamara K. Nopper
Critical Sociology 2010 36: 65 (22 pages)

This article discusses the role of both colorblind racial ideology and the disadvantage thesis in explaining the participation of immigrants in entrepreneurship, particularly as small business owners.  She also analyzes how the various dimensions of colorblind racial ideology are embedded in the ways respondents interpret their cultural worlds.

'Racist!': Metapragmatic regimentation of racist discourse by Asian American youth
Angela Reyes
Discourse Society 2011 22: 458  (17 pages)

This article discusses post-Jim Crow forms of racism such as color-blind and laissez-faire racism, and the post-racism of the contemporary moment, to illuminate the construction of perceptions of racism among contemporary youth.  The author first details instances in politics and entertainment where accusations of racism were leveled, and then examines the ways in which “Korean American boys ‘decode’ (Hill, 2009) certain uses of the term ‘black’ as ‘racist’” (458).  She argues “that ‘racist’ cries by Asian American youth challenge language ideologies of referentialism and personalism and racial ideologies of colorblindness and postrace. Crying ‘racist’ becomes a rich resource for achieving a number of interactional effects that renegotiate the position of Asian American youth with respect to the range of racial categories that circulate throughout US society” (458).