Asian American Youth Organizing in the Era of Racial Capitalism: Antiblackness, Settler Colonialism, and the (Im)Possibilities of Solidarities in San Francisco

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Abstract

This paper is an ethnographic study focused on racial solidarity efforts of the Asian American Organizing Collective, an Asian American youth organizing project based in San Francisco. Through a mental health campaign, AAOC youth organizers' lifted up the experiences of Black and Native students to produce demands on the district that centered a definition of mental health that accounts for issues of anti-Blackness and settler colonialism.

Author

• Miguel N. Abad, University of California - Los Angeles