There is a tendency to think of Korean American literature--and Asian American literature writ large--as a field of study involving only two spaces, the United States and Korea, with the same being true in Asian studies of Korean Japanese (Zainichi) literature involving only Jap…
"A groundbreaking scholarly study of the phenomenon of Chinese-born senior citizen immigrants to the U.S"--
A fearful second grader in Concord, Massachusetts, learns about death when his grandfather's best friend dies and he offers to accompany his grandfather to the funeral.
In the past two decades, a significant number of revisionist literature has been published by queer Asian theologians challenging orthodox teachings on homosexuality and gender identity. The issue that the Asian American church faces today is pressure from society and culture to…
Objectives: To determine latent subgroups of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and examine the associations between the subgroups, alcohol use disorder (AUD), and chronic medical conditions among AAPIs and whether risks for chronic medical conditions differ by a hist…
Married gay Asian American men do not have the same traditional constructs from which to pattern their marriages as heterosexual couples do. Heterosexual couples have history, tradition, family, and role models to inform the constructs of marriage (Bush, 2010; Coontz, 2006), and…
Asian American history is important to acknowledge and know in order to step forward into reclaiming an Asian American identity and redefining an Asian American culture. In this thesis, I examine the Asian American diaspora and how it contributes to the creation of Asian America…
Since the institutionalization of Asian American Studies in the 1960s and 1970s, the definition of “Asian American” has been under constant revision in response to changes in immigration policies and, consequently, to shifts in class, ethnic, sexuality, and gender demographics. …
A central concern of much of the emergent literature of Asian American women is the question of how identity is defined. Living in, and writing from, what has been called the 'between worlds' condition engenders an often contradictory and frequently shifting sense of identity in…
This study explores intergenerational racial injustice conversations in Asian American households by focusing on conversations that occurred following the death of George Floyd. Asian American historical oppression, Eastern versus Western ideologies, and intergenerational commun…
This research study investigates the perceptions, identities, and typecasting issues surrounding Asian American commercial dancers in Los Angeles through personal and historical contexts. My own experience as a commercial dancer in Los Angeles has led to questions about typecast…
This autoethnographic study explored my academic experiences as a first-generation Afghan woman within the American education system. A finite lens was used to review detailed narratives from sixth grade through the present day. The guiding question for this study was: How have …
The purpose of the study was to determine if the western developed leadership impacted the promotion of Confucian Asians into an administrative position. In addition, this study aimed to determine if current leadership ideas harm advancement for Confucian Asians and to fill a ga…
The short stories in Dreamers explore American masculinity in the twenty-first century. They also examine and complicate Asian-American identity at a time when decades-old stereotypes persist in the culture. In the title story, a war veteran returns home from Afghanistan to find…
Cancer rates are rising among the South Asian population and, more specifically, among South Asian American women from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. About 1 in 9 Pakistani women will suffer from breast cancer at some point in her life. Research shows many cancer deaths could b…
Pledging Transnational Allegiances: Nationhood, Selfhood, and Belonging in Asian American and Jewish American Narratives, represents a comparative study of immigrant fiction that traces its development over the course of the twentieth century. The use of Jewish American and Asia…
Asian Indian American women are an understudied population in college and are often considered with other Asian American students even though there are important differences. The purpose of this critical life history project was to address the paucity of research on Asian Indian…
The present project investigated the role of ethnicity, Asian American (AA) cultural immersion level, and examiner-examinee racial match on commonly-used neuropsychological and personality measures (Studies One and Two, respectively). As hypothesized, culturally-different respon…
Since 1990, the South Asian population in America has exhibited massive growth, as large numbers of immigrants from India, Pakistan, and other South Asian countries have arrived in the United States. Yet limited empirical psychological research has been conducted assessing race-…