Asians'/Asian Americans' Identity Exploration in Between Cultures

• In Event: Exploring Asian American Youth Identity Construction

Abstract

This presentation explores cultural identities of an ethnic minority group through a community-based participatory action research (CBPAR). Conducting a three-year-long CBPAR study with an urban community school’s students, teachers, and administrators, the author reveals the dynamic changes of recent Asian-American immigrants’ issues and their cultural identity conflicts in multicultural settings. This study emphasizes the intersections of Asian-American cultural identity inquiry, critical multiculturalism, racial identity theory, and narrative inquiry.
Audiences will gain understandings of: 1. How Asian immigrants and Asian-Americans in a community view their cultural identities. 2. How a CBPAR study facilitates minorities to voice their identities in multicultural settings. 3. What the meaningful implications of this study are for other minority groups, schools, community organizations, and education research.

Author

• Ah Ran Koo, California State University-Fresno