Asian American Attitudes and Anti-Asian Sentiment in the Trump Era

Session Submission Type: In-Person Created Panel

Session Description

Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the United States, and play an increasingly important role in American electoral politics. However, rhetoric related to the COVID-19 pandemic brought to the fore Anti-Asian sentiment and continued discrimination against Asian Americans in the United States, including violent attacks on Asian Americans in 2021. This panel explores these phenomena, and related dynamics of Asian American political incorporation and socialization.

Sub Unit

• Division 32: Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Cosponsor

• Related Groups / Asian Pacific American Caucus

Individual Presentations

• Americans’ Attitude towards Asian Americans in Trump Administration - Dan Qi, Lamar University; James C. Garand, Louisiana State University

• To Flee or to Flock? Challenges to Asian American Collective Action and Identity - Chinbo Chong, Indiana University, Bloomington

• Yellow Peril Revived? Anti-Asian Racism and American Public Opinion on China (Pre-Recorded) - D.G. Kim, University of California, San Diego

Chair

• Ngoc Phan Hawaii Pacific University

Discussant

• Taeku Lee University of California, Berkeley