Due to Covid-19 precautions, the Miniconference has been canceled. See announcement here https://thinkiggi.com/wpsa-2020-apia-mini-conference-cancelled/
or here http://www.apa-politics.org/
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Dear IGGI Community,
Presidential election politics and debates this year underscore a striking upsurge in prominence for Asian American candidates and for issues about which the Asian American community has traditionally maintained relative silence. For example, Democratic Presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s run and (his wife) Evelyn Yang’s disclosure about sexual assault [1] broke multiple barriers to Asian American meaningful inclusion in American political and social development. With each prominent disclosure, our electeds in Washington DC hopefully understand that including Asian American voices as well as working to achieve equal protection for women should be prominent on the public policy agenda.
Beyond the media, rigorous scholarship on Asian American social and political life attempts to evaluate empirical patterns in key developments as they unfold. As the organizer for the Asian Pacific American Politics Miniconference — “a conference within a conference” or part of the 2020 Western Political Science Association’s annual meeting in Los Angeles, CA — let me (Dr. Loan Le) write to invite you to any of our panel events for that day. The conference will be held at the J.W. Marriott L.A. Live Hotel and attendees should register in advance or on site (http://wpsanet.org/meeting/).
Join us for an exciting day of cutting-edge research on Asian American and Pacific Islander politics on April 10, 2020!
Here is a preview highlighting scheduled panels for Friday, April 10, 2020:
| Panel : | 30.1 -Inequality and the Role of Belonging in Asian American Political Incorporation |
| Date : | Friday, April 10, 08:00AM – 09:45AM |
| Papers : | Political Inequality in the Digital World: The Paradox of Asian American Online Political Participation Chan, Nathan, nkchan@uci.edu, University of California, Irvine Social Class and Asian American Politics: Are the Wealthy More Republican? Penumaka, Evangel, epenumaka@ucla.edu, University of California, Los Angeles Masuoka, Natalie, Nmasuoka@ucla.edu, University of California, Los Angeles Improvising “Nonexistent Rights”: Immigrants, Ethnic Restaurants, and Corporeal Citizenship in Suburban California Lee, Charles, ctl@asu.edu, Arizona State University Devotion to Church, Dedication to Country? the role of belief and belonging in Asian immigrant and citizen political participation Silva, Andrea, andrea.silva@unt.edu, University of North Texas Huckle, Kiku, khuckle@pace.edu, Pace University |
| Panel : | 30.2 -Mobilizing Asian America: Coethnic Candidates, Feminism and Social Movements |
| Date : | Friday, April 10, 10:00AM – 11:45AM |
| Papers : | The Limited Role of Asian America in #MeToo: A Media Analysis of News Reports Le, Loan, lkle@thinkiggi.com, Institute for Good Government and Inclusion (IGGI) One of our own? Why Asian American candidates cannot count on Asian votes Lu, Fan, fan.lu@queensu.ca, Queen’s University (Canada) Anti-Black Prejudice and Asian American Public Opinion Tokeshi, Matthew, mt13@williams.edu, Williams College Asian American Mobilization: The Effect of Co-Ethnic Candidates on Asian American Turnout Sadhwani, Sara, ssadhwani@callutheran.edu, California Lutheran University Asian American Political Activism: Mobilizing Group Identities Merseth, Julie Lee, jmerseth@northwestern.edu, Northwestern University |
| Panel : | 30.3 -Introducing Asian Pacific American Politics—Celebrating the Scholarly Legacy of Don T. Nakanishi |
| Date : | Friday, April 10, 01:15PM – 03:00PM |
| Chair(s) : | Aoki, Andrew, aoki@augsburg.edu, Augsburg University Lien, Pei-te, plien@polsci.ucsb.edu, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Panelists: | |
| Daus, Gem P. – binalonan@gmail.com, University of Maryland Lee, Charles – ctl@asu.edu, Arizona State University Phillips, Christian D. – cdphilli@usc.edu, University of Southern California Raychaudhuri, Tanika – tanikar@princeton.edu, University of Pennsylvania Watanabe, Paul – Paul.Watanabe@umb.edu, University of Massachusetts Boston de Leon, Erwin S. – ed2750@columbia.edu, Columbia University |
| Panel : | 30.4 -Asian American Politics in Greater Los Angeles |
| Date : | Friday, April 10, 03:15PM – 05:00PM |
| Discussant(s): | TBA & Phillips, Christian D. – cdphilli@usc.edu, University of Southern California |
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[1] Bash, Dana, Nolan, Bridget, Black, Nelli and DiCarlo, Patricia. January 17, 2020. CNN.com. “Exclusive: Evelyn Yang reveals she was sexually assaulted by her OB-GYN while pregnant.” Retrieved from https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/16/politics/evelyn-yang-interview-assault/index.html