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其他書名	Complicating Ideas Regarding East and South Asian American Youth
出版	ProQuest LLC, 2022
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EmIt0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋My dissertation focuses on East and South Asian American youths' understandings and negotiations of racialized neoliberal discourses and processes as well as their racial/ethnic identities. I examine how the Chinese, Indian, and Korean American youth at a predominately white Midwest suburban public high school navigate through racialized neoliberal ideologies, as well as make sense of their racial positionings. The eight-month ethnography primarily drew from participant observation during the 2019-2020 school year until the school closure in March 2020 due to COVID-19, as well as interviews with Chinese, Indian, and Korean American students and their families and schoolteachers. The use of ethnography provided me with the opportunity to take seriously the local conditions around students' sense-making and the contexts that inform the multifaceted Asian experience and learning around race, including their racial identities and positionings and negotiation of racial discourses about themselves and others. My research seeks to expand on these youth constructs and negotiate the intersections of their hybrid identities as they navigate through heterogeneous sociocultural worlds (i.e., school, home, and community spaces). Furthermore, it identifies the tensions and conflicts they encounter as manifestations of ideologies prevalent in the racially stratified U.S. society. The ethnographic account consists of discussions around how Asian American youth are placed at the confluence of white supremacy and anti-Blackness and are subjected to racialization in contradicting ways. Despite the youth's unique racial position as the model minority having relative racial privilege, most are left feeling overlooked by the school system; the Asian youth are not only not white, they are minorities within a minority. In addition to how the Asian youth suffers from a social justice blind spot, my research also reveals how their internalization of the model minority and perpetual foreigner stereotypes, coupled with their middle-class standing, render the group as lacking awareness of their anti-Blackness. The Asian American youth in my study were complicit in anti-Blackness through their indifference, passivity, and "innocence" towards the school's perpetual rationing and privations of equal opportunities for Black and Brown students.