As higher education diversifies, students from underrepresented backgrounds find themselves on campuses that are not prepared to support them or are steeped in European American cultural norms. These students experience "cultural mismatches" when their personal norms do not match those of their institutions, which can harm their social…

This study employed a discourse analysis methodology to compare Korean bilingual students in first and third grades by examining different functions and forms of translanguaging in Korean heritage language classrooms in the U.S. By identifying linguistic functions and forms of each translanguaging occurrence, the study presents that the bilingual…

Framed by family language policy and children's agency, this multiple case study investigates two Hmong American children's conceptualization of Hmong and the strategies they develop and utilize in their home. Interviews, artifacts, recorded interactions, and video recorded sessions were collected to gain an understanding of how the children…

In conducting qualitative research, scholars often grapple with positionality. Researcher positionality refers to how various social identities (i.e. gender, race, class, ethnicity, ability, geographical location) influence research methods. It examines the impact of researchers' social identities on their understanding of the research design,…

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the significance of videoconferencing in blended learning, using the technology acceptance model to investigate students' perceptions and its impact on course engagement, student satisfaction and future technology use intention. In addition, it examines the role of teacher support in fostering interactive…

Racism impacts various facets of the lives of people of color (POC) in the United States, spanning across historical and contemporary contexts. Chinese Americans, as an ethnic group historically excluded from entering the United States and denied naturalized citizenship, have endured distinctive and enduring forms of racism that are…

Although numerous studies document different forms of discrimination in the U.S. public education system, very few provide plausibly causal estimates. Thus, it is unclear to what extent public school principals discriminate against racial and ethnic minorities. Moreover, no studies test for heterogeneity in racial/ethnic discrimination by…

Asian American college students continue to experience racism at the individual and systemic levels. Research on racial socialization (RS), or information about sociocultural norms and practices, suggests that RS may have benefits for Asian Americans in dealing with racism (Thai et al., 2017). Scholars have typically examined RS that occurs in…

Leadership education within postsecondary institutions has often failed to consider the ways in which Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) make sense of their leadership identity. This article explores the role that Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions have in fostering AAPI leaders through culturally…

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the career pathways by 14 female Asian academic administrators in New York, their leadership experiences, and the barriers they encountered along the way and strategies used to overcome them. The researcher relied on the theoretical foundations critical theory and intersectionality as…

Theoretically framed by AsianCrit, the current study used a longitudinal qualitative study to explore how larger socio-historical contexts such as the pandemic shape Asian American and migrant elementary teachers' daily lives and teaching practices. The study's findings demonstrate that, following the COVID-19 pandemic and an upsurge in anti-Asian…

This study examined relationship-defining memories in the cultural context and how phenomenological characteristics of those memories were related to psychological well-being. A total of 105 Asian and 108 European American college students (M[subscript age] = 20.16 years; 64% women) each recalled a positive and a negative event significant for…

As a fast-growing population in US. society, Asian Americans, particularly Chinese Americans, have started to engage more actively and amplify their presence in the recent legal challenges to affirmative action in college admissions. In order to get a deeper understanding of how US.-based Chinese view affirmative action, we conducted a textual…

In this article, I draw from my experience working as a Korean American music teacher in the US. I reflect on what it means to be Asian American and to bring Asian narratives to the forefront. I examine the distinct challenges of social justice in the context of Asians and Asian Americans' lives--particularly through the lens of the "model…

In this qualitative study, Samuel D. Museus analyzes how relative racialization processes and their dynamics shape Asian American college students' racial justice activism. The findings from his qualitative interviews with activist Asian American undergraduates reveal how these students perceived relative racialization processes as raising…