Important ethnic disaggregation of Asian American survey data shows that there is a widening gap between Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans on affirmative action.
While a majority of Chinese Americans now oppose affirmative action, we should also remember that many Chinese Americans (myself included) support holistic review and race-conscious affirmative action. Campus diversity benefits ALL students.
Also, we should remember that Chinese Americans make up only about one-quarter of the AA/NHPIs. Folks in the media must be careful not to allow the opinions of some Asian Americans to outweigh the rest of us. cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/upl…
Affirmative action issue is fraught w/in AsAm community. Mainstream media coverage of the issue from our community's perspective would do well to solicit many opinions and cover our political diversity, particularly with regard to typically marginalized and invisibilized SE AsAms
While I have been happy to see some articles address the many opinions on affirmative action in our community, I have yet to see significant coverage on affirmative action from the perspective of Southeast Asian Americans, who remain vastly underrepresented on college campuses.
This is so obvious I can't believe I have to say it, but: non-East Asian Americans are Asian Americans, too. Journalists: when you allow the opinions of one-eighth of Asian America to speak for all Asian Americans, you drown out and erase those who already struggle to be heard.
