The Asian Pacific American Caucus ("APAC," also known as the "Asian and Pacific Islander American Caucus") is a conference group of individuals who meet annually during professional meetings. Membership is free and open to all who share an interest in the teaching and learning of Asian Pacific American political affairs and community-based activism. Our members are typically affiliated with colleges and universities as faculty, staff, or graduate/undergraduate students. We also welcome partnership with community activists and organizational leaders. The APAC was co-founded in 1999 by Professors Andrew Aoki and Pei-te Lien as a related group of the American Political Science Association(APSA) that has a close relationship to the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the APSA. Starting in 2012, with the preparation and founding of the WPSA Committee on the Status of Asian Pacific Americans in the Profession, we have held a mini-conference on APA politics during WPSA meetings.
Announcements:
TEACHING Asian Pacific American Politics
April 15, 2021
Dear colleague,
In response to a heightened interest in and awareness of the recent tragedies and ongoing violence against Asian Pacific Americans, we have created a micro-syllabus on teaching Asian American politics from research published by Politics, Groups, and Identities (PGI) between 2013 and 2021. Taylor & Francis, publisher of this WPSA journal, has kindly ungated 34 research articles and dialogue essays on the syllabus for circulation and free downloads until June 30, 2021. The micro-syllabus itself will remain available afterward. Please help share this opportunity with your network. Thank you.
Best,
Andrew Aoki & Pei-te Lien
WPSA APAC Mini-Conference Schedule
March 28, 2021 Update:
Please see below for the latest schedule regarding the Asian and Pacific Islander American Mini-Conference at the Western Political Science Association to be held on Friday, April 2, 2021. This year’s in-person meeting has been canceled and the meeting will be held via an online format only. People who would like to register for the conference are welcome to join us on for the online panels, roundtables and other meetings.
Friday April 02
08:00AM - 09:45 AM – PACIFIC TIME
Panel 30.01 Evaluating the Limits of Asian American Political Identity
Chair: Geron, Kim, California State University Eastbay
Discussant: Arora, Maneesh, Wellesley College
Papers:
Are We There Yet? Exploring Local Political Incorporation of Asian Americans in California
Filler, Nicole, Highline College
Gonzales, Francesa, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lien, Pei-te, University of California, Santa Barbara
Asian American Mobilization: The Effect of Co-Ethnic Candidates on Asian American Turnout
Sadhwani, Sara, Pomona College
One of Our Own? Why Asian American Candidates Cannot Count on Asian Voters
Lu, Fan, Queen's University
Friday April 02
10:00AM - 11:45 AM – PACIFIC TIME
Panel 30.02 Mobilizing Asian America: Civic Education and Political Activism
Chair: Raychaudhuri, Tanika, Princeton University
Discussant: Chong, Chinbo, University of Michigan
Papers:
Welcoming Asian Americans to the Party: The Benefits of Civic Education on the Acquisition of Partisanship
Chan, Nathan, The University of California, Irvine
Hoyt, Benjamin, University of California, Irvine
Explanatory Factors for Underreports of Sexual Harassment Among Asian American Women
Le, Loan, Institute for Good Government & Inclusion
Friday, April 02
12:00PM-01:00PM - PACIFIC TIME
WPSA-APASC and APAC Business Meeting
Friday April 02
01:15PM - 03:00PM – PACIFIC TIME
Panel 30.04 Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Anti-Asian Attitudes and Behavior
Chair: Lai, James, Santa Clara University
Discussant: Aoki, Andrew, Augsburg University
Papers:
Anti-Asian Racism: Political Causes and Consequences
Kim, D.G., University of California, San Diego
Improvising 'Nonexistent Rights': Immigrants, Ethnic Restaurants, and Corporeal Citizenship in Suburban California
Lee, Charles, Arizona State University
Racial Formation and Pandemic: Examining the Shifts in Asian American Racial Identity During the COVID-19 Outbreak
Leung, Vivien, University of California, Los Angeles
Masuoka, Natalie, University of California, Los Angeles
Friday April 02
03:15PM - 05:00PM – PACIFIC TIME
Panel 30.05 Roundtable: Introducing Asian Pacific American Politics: ''Celebrating the Legacy of Don T. Nakanishi''
Chairs: Aoki, Andrew, Augsburg University & Lien, Pei-te, University of California, Santa Barbara
Participants:
Daus, Gem, University of Maryland
de Leon, Erwin, Columbia University
Lee, Charles, Arizona State University
Phillips, Christian, University of Southern California
Raychaudhuri, Tanika, Princeton University
Watanabe, Paul, University of Massachusetts Boston
Older News
Call for Proposals on the WPSA Mini-Conference on Asian Pacific American Politics (Deadline Friday, 10/09/20):
Introduction
The Asian and Pacific Islander American Caucus (APAC) invites you to submit a proposal for the 2021 mini-conference on Asian Pacific American Politics, which will be held on Friday, April 2, during the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, April 1-3, 2020 in Seattle, WA. We welcome all papers about Asian and Pacific Islander American politics. We encourage especially papers on the challenges of COVID-19 on Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities and Asian American mobilization around the 2020 election. We also encourage multi-method papers that innovate on how to study Asian American issues for which data are particularly scarce.
Background
This year’s WPSA conference theme is focused on “Populism, Nativism, Democratic Backsliding, and Pandemic Politics,” which is particularly appropriate for the study of Asian Pacific Americans as the November 2020 presidential election approaches and as we stand against the racism and discrimination that erupted after COVID-19 emerged. Times are changing but we still face enduring issues: Asian Americans confront the model minority myth of school and economic success while remaining marginalized in politics, media representation, equal protection, and many other forms of democratic inclusion. We invite proposals that interrogate the lived experiences of Asian Pacific Americans, both for scholarship that fits within historical conceptualizations of race, ethnicity, and immigrant politics as well as scholarship that focuses on contemporary or current issues.
Instructions
When you submit your proposal to WPSA online, please carefully scroll through the panel options and select the Mini-Conference on Asian Pacific Americans (usually located near the bottom). In addition, if you would like to participate but need a bit more time to develop a proposal, we encourage you to contact us at this point and let us know. Write to Dr. Loan K. Le at lkle@thinkiggi.com.
Please visit the Asian Pacific American Caucus website to find out more and the WPSA website to donate to the fund for Asian Pacific Americans.
Request: Please Check the APAC Box in Your MyAPSA
As some of you might have heard, APSA is beginning to implement a policy to monitor how many members each related group has. If we don't amass 35 APSA members by July 2021, the Asian Pacific American Caucus (APAC) will be severely harmed and might not be able to continue.
To become (renew) an APAC member (or certify your APAC membership), go to:
https://www.apsanet.org/User-Home/override/related and sign in.
Then check the boxes "Asian Pacific American Caucus" (and any other related groups as you like, such as Conference Group on Taiwan Studies, Indigenous Studies Network, Latino Caucus, LGBT Caucus, Women's Caucus, just to name a few). If the window for boxes does not open, look at the right column, see below "APSA resources," and click "Related Groups."
At this moment, there is no fee for checking boxes for related groups nor a limit of related groups you can check. But please note that your APSA membership and related group membership are concurrent. This means that if you renew your APSA membership between now and July 2021, we request you to come back to the related group checkbox page and check the boxes of APAC and other groups important to you. However, if you are a lifetime APSA member, you do not have to check the boxes every year, unless APSA tells you otherwise.
We would appreciate your help, as we have many individuals on our mailing list but who are not counted toward the number of APAC members by APSA because they are not APSA members.
Thank you very much in advance for your cooperation.
September 2020 Virtual Conference APAC (and the APA Status Committee) Panels and Business meeting
1. APAC panel: Multiple Perspectives on Asian Pacific American Politics
Sunday, September 13, 2:00pm MDT
Chair: Okiyoshi Takeda, Aoyama Gakuin University
Discussants: Natalie Masuoka, University of California, Los Angeles and Okiyoshi Takeda, Aoyama Gakuin University
Papers: Your English is So Good! Discrimination and Microaggressions in Asian America
Vivien Leung, University of California, Los Angeles
Asian American Women and Underreports of Sexual Harassment: New Survey Data Verify Patterns of Reluctance to Report Sexual Harassment
Loan Le, Institute for Good Government & Inclusion
Double-Edged Sword: The Model Minority and Perpetual Foreigner Stereotypes, Racial Triangulation, and Asian American Partisan Identification
Chinbo Chong, Princeton University and Tanika Raychaudhuri, University of Pennsylvania
2. APAC business meeting
Saturday, Sept. 12, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm MDT
(APAC Bylaws available here.)
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3. Asian Pacific American Status Committee panel Asian and Pacific Islanders in the Profession: Opportunities and Challenges for Current or Future Job Seeking Graduate Students, Post-docs, and New Tenure Track Faculty
Sun, September 13, 12:00 to 1:30pm MDT
Chair: Kim Geron, California State University, East Bay
Presenters: Maneesh Arora, Wellesley College
Hannah Kim, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Stacey Liou, University of Florida
Ngoc Phan, Hawaii Pacific University
APAC 20th Anniversary Symposium
At last year’s annual meeting (APSA September 2019 in Washington, DC), we celebrated our 20th anniversary with a symposium. Rogers Smith, president of APSA, gave an opening remark.
To commemorate our anniversary, we made tote bags and pins (note: to show how large a pin is, it is shown with a quarter).
Sun, September 13, 12:00 to 1:30pm MDT
Chair: Kim Geron, California State University, East Bay
Presenters: Maneesh Arora, Wellesley College
Hannah Kim, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Stacey Liou, University of Florida
Ngoc Phan, Hawaii Pacific University
APAC 20th Anniversary Symposium
At last year’s annual meeting (APSA September 2019 in Washington, DC), we celebrated our 20th anniversary with a symposium. Rogers Smith, president of APSA, gave an opening remark.
To commemorate our anniversary, we made tote bags and pins (note: to show how large a pin is, it is shown with a quarter).
APAC 20th Anniversary Pin
The process to publish this symposium in PS: Political Science and Politics is underway. We look forward to the 2021 publication (hopefully) of a PS symposium on Asian American politics. This will also commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the 2001 publication of an Asian American politics symposium in PS, the first time a political science journal had devoted a symposium to Asian American politics.
WPSA 2020 Mini-Conference on Asian Pacific Americans cancelled
Dear APAC/WPSA APIA Mini-Conference Community:
Following up on the WPSA's recent announcement to all members (https://www.wpsanet.org/), let me write to affirm that we will be canceling the Mini-Conference on APIA politics this year. What I see is that faculty and staff are scrambling to get their courses online (and many have never held online courses, so it's an enormous undertaking done well) and to take care of their families when schools/activities/resources have shut down, so after discussion with others, we made the choice not to hold our mini-conference.
If some of you are interested in participating in the optional online conference to be held May 21-23, 2020, I think there may be an opportunity to re-organize within the main WPSA online conference. WPSA is expected to issue guidance on how to participate in the virtual conference. You can participate in the 2020 online conference for no additional fee regardless of how you decide to allocate your conference registration fees. Participation in the online conference is entirely up to you; either decision works out fine for APAC.
Some people have been able to support WPSA by donating their registration fees (this is wonderful if you can allocate for that, although we also recognize that it may be a difficult time financially for association members).
Stay safe and well everyone.
Best wishes,
Dr. Loan Le (March 25, 2020)
Announcing book publication Asian Pacific American Politics—Celebrating the Scholarly Legacy of Don T. Nakanishi (Routledge 2020).
Arguably, the book comprises the most comprehensive and updated collection of works in the field. Click here or see below for the book description as well as for the table of contents.
Publisher Book Description
Asian Pacific American Politics presents some of the most recent research on Asian American politics, including both quantitative and qualitative examinations of the role of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in some of today’s major political controversies.
In the highly polarized politics of the United States in the early 21st century, non-Black racial minorities such as Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans will increasingly find themselves swept into the epicenter of many of the divisive controversies. This timely volume presents the latest scholarly research on some of these issues, examining questions such as Asian American support for #Black Lives Matter, responses to racially-charged attacks, and the differences in the political socialization, politicization, and community-based activism within and across sectors of the Asian American population. In addition to examining political identity, voting participation, political mobilization, transnational politics, and partisan formation, the volume also investigates important, but little discussed, issues such as the Native Hawaiian sovereignty movement, political incorporation of Filipino Americans, and the struggle to establish "comfort women" memorials in the United States. Contributors also examine, through dialogues, how Asian Americans fit into the larger world of American racial politics, the extent to which they are likely to build coalitions with other communities of color, and the boundaries and contours of Asian American political theory.
Exploring and Expanding the Political World Pioneered by Don T. Nakanishi, Asian Pacific American Politics will be of great interest to scholars of race and ethnicity in American politics, immigration and minority incorporation, ethnic identity politics, and political participation and democratic inclusion of Asians. The chapters were originally published in Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Exploring and expanding the political world pioneered by Don T. Nakanishi by Andrew Aoki and Pei-te Lien
Research Articles
1. Race-ing solidarity: Asian Americans and support for Black Lives Matter by Julie Lee Merseth
2. From emotion to action among Asian Americans: assessing the roles of threat and identity in the age of Trump by Davin L. Phoenix and Maneesh Arora
3. Superficial Equality: Gender and immigration in Asian American political participation by Christian Dyogi Phillips and Taeku Lee
4. The social roots of Asian American partisan attitudes by Tanika Raychaudhuri
5. Coalition building and mobilization: case studies of the comfort women memorials in the United States by Mary M. McCarthy and Linda C. Hasunuma
6. Does Christopher Chen Vote More Than Shu-Wei Chen? The Cost of Ethnic Retention among Asian America Voters by Min Hee Go
7. Party Identification and the Immigrant Cohort Hypothesis: The Case of Vietnamese Americans by Loan Kieu Le and Phi Hong Su
8. The Role of Co-Ethnic Political Mobilization in Electoral Incorporation: Evidence from Orange County, California by Carole Jean Uhlaner and Danvy Le
9. When Does Race Matter? Exploring White Responses to Minority Congressional Candidates by Neil Visalvanich
10. The Effect of Party Mobilization, Group Identity, and Racial Context on Asian Americans’ Turnout by Dukhong Kim
Dialogue Essays: Doing, Learning, and Thinking about Asian Pacific American Politics
11. Filipino American political participation by Erwin S. de Leon and Gem P. Daus
12. "Now we know": resurgences of Hawaiian independence by Noelani Goodyear-Ka’opua
13. Intersectional perspectives on Asian Pacific American activism and movement building by Nicole Filler
14. Are ballot box issues enough? Nakanishi’s indication and the case for Asian Pacific American transnational Politics in an age of domestic disruption by Christian Collet
15. How far have we come? Asian Pacific Americans in introductory American government textbooks in three different time periods by Okiyoshi Takeda
Dialogue within Dialogue
16. Contours of Asian American political theory: introductions and polemics by Fred Lee
17. Commentary on Fred Lee’s "Contours of Asian American Political Theory: Introductions and Polemics" by Charles T. Lee
18. Reflections on Fred Lee’s "Contours of Asian American Political Theory: Introductions and Polemics" by Edmund Fong
19. When Race No Longer Predicts Minority Status and Identity by Pei-te Lien
20. Asian Americans and the Rainbow: The Prospects and Limits of Coalitional Politics by Karthick Ramakrishnan
Review Essay
21. Asian Americans and politics: communities and research transformed by Paul Y. Watanabe
Image Source: Cover to Book Asian Pacific American Politics—Celebrating the Scholarly Legacy of Don T. Nakanishi (Routledge 2020).
WPSA 2020 Mini-Conference on Asian Pacific Americans cancelled
Dear APAC/WPSA APIA Mini-Conference Community:
Following up on the WPSA's recent announcement to all members (https://www.wpsanet.org/), let me write to affirm that we will be canceling the Mini-Conference on APIA politics this year. What I see is that faculty and staff are scrambling to get their courses online (and many have never held online courses, so it's an enormous undertaking done well) and to take care of their families when schools/activities/resources have shut down, so after discussion with others, we made the choice not to hold our mini-conference.
If some of you are interested in participating in the optional online conference to be held May 21-23, 2020, I think there may be an opportunity to re-organize within the main WPSA online conference. WPSA is expected to issue guidance on how to participate in the virtual conference. You can participate in the 2020 online conference for no additional fee regardless of how you decide to allocate your conference registration fees. Participation in the online conference is entirely up to you; either decision works out fine for APAC.
Some people have been able to support WPSA by donating their registration fees (this is wonderful if you can allocate for that, although we also recognize that it may be a difficult time financially for association members).
Stay safe and well everyone.
Best wishes,
Dr. Loan Le (March 25, 2020)
Announcing book publication Asian Pacific American Politics—Celebrating the Scholarly Legacy of Don T. Nakanishi (Routledge 2020).
Arguably, the book comprises the most comprehensive and updated collection of works in the field. Click here or see below for the book description as well as for the table of contents.
Publisher Book Description
Asian Pacific American Politics presents some of the most recent research on Asian American politics, including both quantitative and qualitative examinations of the role of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in some of today’s major political controversies.
In the highly polarized politics of the United States in the early 21st century, non-Black racial minorities such as Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans will increasingly find themselves swept into the epicenter of many of the divisive controversies. This timely volume presents the latest scholarly research on some of these issues, examining questions such as Asian American support for #Black Lives Matter, responses to racially-charged attacks, and the differences in the political socialization, politicization, and community-based activism within and across sectors of the Asian American population. In addition to examining political identity, voting participation, political mobilization, transnational politics, and partisan formation, the volume also investigates important, but little discussed, issues such as the Native Hawaiian sovereignty movement, political incorporation of Filipino Americans, and the struggle to establish "comfort women" memorials in the United States. Contributors also examine, through dialogues, how Asian Americans fit into the larger world of American racial politics, the extent to which they are likely to build coalitions with other communities of color, and the boundaries and contours of Asian American political theory.
Exploring and Expanding the Political World Pioneered by Don T. Nakanishi, Asian Pacific American Politics will be of great interest to scholars of race and ethnicity in American politics, immigration and minority incorporation, ethnic identity politics, and political participation and democratic inclusion of Asians. The chapters were originally published in Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Exploring and expanding the political world pioneered by Don T. Nakanishi by Andrew Aoki and Pei-te Lien
Research Articles
1. Race-ing solidarity: Asian Americans and support for Black Lives Matter by Julie Lee Merseth
2. From emotion to action among Asian Americans: assessing the roles of threat and identity in the age of Trump by Davin L. Phoenix and Maneesh Arora
3. Superficial Equality: Gender and immigration in Asian American political participation by Christian Dyogi Phillips and Taeku Lee
4. The social roots of Asian American partisan attitudes by Tanika Raychaudhuri
5. Coalition building and mobilization: case studies of the comfort women memorials in the United States by Mary M. McCarthy and Linda C. Hasunuma
6. Does Christopher Chen Vote More Than Shu-Wei Chen? The Cost of Ethnic Retention among Asian America Voters by Min Hee Go
7. Party Identification and the Immigrant Cohort Hypothesis: The Case of Vietnamese Americans by Loan Kieu Le and Phi Hong Su
8. The Role of Co-Ethnic Political Mobilization in Electoral Incorporation: Evidence from Orange County, California by Carole Jean Uhlaner and Danvy Le
9. When Does Race Matter? Exploring White Responses to Minority Congressional Candidates by Neil Visalvanich
10. The Effect of Party Mobilization, Group Identity, and Racial Context on Asian Americans’ Turnout by Dukhong Kim
Dialogue Essays: Doing, Learning, and Thinking about Asian Pacific American Politics
11. Filipino American political participation by Erwin S. de Leon and Gem P. Daus
12. "Now we know": resurgences of Hawaiian independence by Noelani Goodyear-Ka’opua
13. Intersectional perspectives on Asian Pacific American activism and movement building by Nicole Filler
14. Are ballot box issues enough? Nakanishi’s indication and the case for Asian Pacific American transnational Politics in an age of domestic disruption by Christian Collet
15. How far have we come? Asian Pacific Americans in introductory American government textbooks in three different time periods by Okiyoshi Takeda
Dialogue within Dialogue
16. Contours of Asian American political theory: introductions and polemics by Fred Lee
17. Commentary on Fred Lee’s "Contours of Asian American Political Theory: Introductions and Polemics" by Charles T. Lee
18. Reflections on Fred Lee’s "Contours of Asian American Political Theory: Introductions and Polemics" by Edmund Fong
19. When Race No Longer Predicts Minority Status and Identity by Pei-te Lien
20. Asian Americans and the Rainbow: The Prospects and Limits of Coalitional Politics by Karthick Ramakrishnan
Review Essay
21. Asian Americans and politics: communities and research transformed by Paul Y. Watanabe
Image Source: Cover to Book Asian Pacific American Politics—Celebrating the Scholarly Legacy of Don T. Nakanishi (Routledge 2020).
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