In discussions of racial and ethnic diversity and equity, it is difficult to avoid juxtapositions between Asians and other People of Color groups. Higher test scores, college admissions, income, etc. imply that people of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage are doing better than everyone else, including Whites. And yet, this identity group contains within it a myriad of sub-groups that get lost in the conglomeration, and we fail to serve students if we don't acknowledge this diversity. API people experience the marginalization of invisibility - Southeast Asian, South Asian, and Pacific Islander peoples are often invisible in the equation of API with East Asian; API cultures are often invisible in the pedagogy of individual accomplishments and competition; API experiences are often invisible in conversations of racial opportunity gaps. From the impact of the Model Minority Myth to the Bamboo Ceiling, from the perpetual immigrant narrative to the rise of international API students in our residential programs, from the dance of identities of transracial adoptees to the intersectionality of factors that influence multiracial API identity development, are our schools prepared to be inclusive of all people who identify as Asian and Pacific Islander heritage?
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Doing Better Than Everyone Else?
Asians and Pacific Islanders in Our Schools
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9. Asian Pacific American History
1763 Filipinos settle Saint Malo
1778 Chinese sailors land in Hawaii
1820s Chinese immigration begins in earnest
1865 The Central Pacific Railroad Co. recruits
Chinese workers for the transcontinental railroad
1878 Chinese are ruled ineligible for naturalized
citizenship
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act is passed
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11. Takao Ozawa vs United States
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12. Asian Pacific American History
1941 Japan air force attacked Pearl Harbor; FBI arrests
pro-Japanese community leaders
1941-45 Filipino resistance movement, working closely
with U.S. Army, fights the Japanese invaders
1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive
Order 9066 on February 19, uprooting 100,000 people
of Japanese descent on the west coast to be sent to
Internment camps.
1943-1945 Japanese Americans volunteer for the US
Army’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team and becomes
the highest decorated military unit in US history
1946, the Luce–Celler Act of 1946 grants naturalization
opportunities to Filipino Americans and Indian Americans
(which included present-day Pakistanis and Bangladeshis)
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14. Asian Pacific American History
1956 Dalip Singh Saund is the first Asian (Sikh) to be elected for
Congress
1962 Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaiʻi elected for the US Senate
1965 Patsy T. Mink of Hawaiʻi becomes the first woman of color in
Congress.
1965 Luck Wing serves four terms as the Mayor of Sledge
Mississippi, population 600
1968 Term “Asian American” is coined as a part of the Asian
American Movement, a radical movement for social justice (Red
Guard)
1971, Norman Y. Mineta elected mayor of San Jose, California;
Herbert Choy nominated supreme court justice.
1974, George R. Ariyoshi elected governor of Hawaiʻi
1975 More than 130,000 refugees enter the U.S. from Vietnam,
Kampuchea, and Laos as Communist governments are
established there following the end of the Indochina War.
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15. Black Panthers and The Red Guard
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16. Asian Pacific American History
1976 Samuel Ichiye (S. I.) Hayakawa of California and
Spark Matsunaga of Hawaiʻi elected as US Senators
1978 Ellison S. Onizuka becomes the first Asian American
astronaut
1982 Vincent Chin is accused of being a Japanese
(being blamed for loss of jobs) and beaten to death.
1987 First formal signing of the Proclamation of Asian
Pacific American Heritage Week by the White House
1988 U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties
Act of 1988 apologizing for Japanese American
internment and provide reparations of $20,000 to each
victim
1992 Korean businesses are looted and burned during the
LA Riots
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18. Asian Pacific American History
1992 Eugene Chung is football offensive lineman in the NFL
1992, Hae Jong Kim elected Bishop of United Methodist Church
1996 Gary Locke is elected as the first Chinese American governor
1999 Gen. Eric Shinseki becomes the first Asian American U.S.
military chief of staff
2000 Norman Y. Mineta becomes the first Asian American appointed
to the U.S. Cabinet
2002 Yao Ming is the number one draft pick in the 2002 NBA draft
2003 Ignatius C. Wang becomes a bishop of the Roman Catholic
Church
2008 Tim Lincecum (half Filipino) a starting pitcher for the San
Francisco Giants, is selected as an All Star for the Major League All
Star Game
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19. Emergent Themes
The Perpetual Immigrant
The Worker Not Owner
Black or White or Neither?
Weak as a Socio-Political Group
Ethnically Separated
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20. Myth of the Model Minority
Overly Hard Working and Tireless
Will Work Under Extreme Circumstances
Quiet and Cooperative
Serene, Smart, Resilient
Doesn’t Seek the Limelight
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21. Legacy of the Myth
Outsourcing of Cheap Labor
Orientalism in Health Care
Tokenism and Minimalization
Stress of Achievement
Funneling into STEM Fields
Where Are You From?
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23. Recent Influx
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Source: Department of Homeland Security, The Wall Street Journal
24. Recent Emergent Themes
Highly Educated
Socioeconomically Well Off
Not Really People of Color
Weak as a Socio-Political Group
Ethnically Separated
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25. Recent Model Minority Incarnation
Overly Hard Working and Tireless
Quiet and Cooperative
Serene, Smart, Resilient
Doesn’t Seek the Limelight
Driven by “Tiger Moms”
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26. Experiences in Independent Schools
Names, Names, Names
Stereotype Lift and Lack of Support
Assumption of Wealth
Not Really People of Color
Demographically People of Color
Bullying and Harassment
Tokenized Inclusion
Dissipated Affinity Groups
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27. What Kind of API Are Your Students?
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Southeast Asian
South Asian
Pacific Islander
Multiracial
Transracially Adopted
International Student
3rd Generation or Later
Recent Immigrant
28. Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee
Going Forward
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29. Presenter Information
Rosetta Eun Ryong Lee
6th Faculty and
Professional Outreach
Seattle Girls’ School
2706 S Jackson Street
Seattle WA 98144
(206) 805-6562
rlee@seattlegirlsschool.org
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