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67.058 - Dismantling Institutional Racism in Asian American and Pacific Islander College Student Experiences

Mon, April 8, 4:10 to 5:40pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Floor: 700 Level, Room 713A

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Expanding research on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) college students challenges dominant views of AAPIs as honorary whites and super achievers (Museus & Chang, 2009). However, the majority of studies are framed as counter-responses to the racially divisive model minority myth and reinforce a deficit view of students (Poon et al., 2016). As a result, there is a need for research to address how AAPI students are affected by racism and how this system of oppression is embedded structurally and culturally in higher education. This symposium introduces new theoretical lenses and empirical work focused on understudied AAPI populations in order to advance approaches for identifying and dismantling institutional racism in higher education.

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