History of “Asian American” Identity
Jul 31 at 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Join us for AAJIL’s Foundations, the second leg of our Core Community Racial Justice Trainings, facilitated by AAJIL founder and board member; Dr. Sandra So Hee Chi Kim. These sessions focus on aspects of systemic racism that ideologies of whiteness strategically invisibilize: the function of Asian racializations and oppressions within a white-dominant societal complex built upon anti-Indigenous and anti-Black infrastructures.
This session explores the origin and history of “Asian American” identity, both as a racial construct and as a political movement, as well as the origin of the model minority stereotype and its function within white supremacy.