UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press
AAPI NEXUS: POLICY, PRACTICE, AND COMMUNITY Collection
Published by UCLA's Asian American Studies Center Press, AAPI Nexus is a national journal focusing on policies, practices and community research to benefit the nation’s burgeoning Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. AAPI Nexus draws from professional schools and applied social science scholars as well as practitioners and public policy advocates with the goal of reinvigorating Asian American Studies' mission of serving communities and generating practical research.
The first issue was released in Fall 2003, and focused on community development. Future issues will deal with Intersections in Education, Mental Health, Workforce issues and more.
The full article index is available here.
SENIOR EDITOR: Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Professor of Public Health/Asian American Studies
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Don T. Nakanishi, Professor of Education/Asian American Studies
MANAGING EDITOR: Melany Dela Cruz-Viesca
PUBLICATIONS COORDINATOR: Mary Uyematsu Kao
AAPI Nexus Editorial Board
AAPI Nexus has published on the following topics:
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AAPI NEXUS Resources/Guidelines
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AAPI NEXUS Resources/Guidelines
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“Community Development,” 1:1 (2003)
The inaugural issue examines the topic of community development by policy advocates and applied social scientists from across the nation with editors Paul M. Ong and Don T. Nakanishi. Authors: Read the Press Release on the inaugural issue of AAPI Nexus Journal. Browse the Table of Contents (Adobe PDF Document) |
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“Civil Rights,” 2:1 (2004) Guest Editors: Angelo Ancheta, Jacinta Ma, Don Nakanishi Most of the articles in this issue were originally produced for a strategic roundtable held in October 2002, co-sponsored by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Authors: Read the Message From the Editors: The Asian American Nexus to Civil Rights by Angelo Ancheta, Jacinta Ma, and Don Nakanishi (Adobe PDF Document) Browse the Table of Contents (Adobe PDF Document) |
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“Voting,” 2:2 (2004) Politicians, political activists, and professors contributed commentaries, policy research reports, and detailed accounts of exit polls and voting rights compliance strategies that can be used in AAPI communities. Authors: Read the Message From the Editors: Voting: The Biggest Challenge and What Can Be Done by Don T. Nakanishi and Paul Ong (Adobe PDF Document) Browse the Table of Contents (Adobe PDF Document) |
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"Health," 3:1 (2005) Guest Editor: Marjorie Kagawa-Singer Little is know about these AAPI health problems, which include high levels of cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, and what is known is not widely disseminated, according to Marjorie Kagawa-Singer and Paul Ong. This issues examines health problems of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Authors: Read the Message from the Editors: The Road Ahead - Barriers and Paths of Improving AAPI Health (Adobe PDF Document) Read the Press Release on AAPI Nexus Journal's Health Issue Browse the Table of Contents (Adobe PDF Document) |
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"Employment/Work Issues," 3:2 (2005) Guest Editor: Deborah Woo Scholars, researchers, practitioners, and government officials within this volume examine racial discrimination in employment against Asian Americans, workers' rights, and economic parity in the global labor market. Guest Editor, Deborah Woo, and Senior Editor, Paul Ong, aim for this issue (the first of two) on AAPI work and employment to "produce the knowledge that will help generate new policies and practices to better serve the cause of greater workforce equity and social justice." Authors: Read the Message From the Editors: "AAPI Labor Market Status and Challenges" by Deborah Woo and Paul Ong (Adobe PDF Document) Read the Press Release on AAPI Nexus Journal's Employment/Work Issue Browse the Table of Contents (Adobe PDF Document) |
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"Glass Ceiling/Health Issues," 4:1 (2006) Guest Editors: Marjorie Kagawa-Singer and Deborah Woo This issue examines whether there is a "glass ceiling" affecting Asian American professionals. Health issues also are addressed. Authors: Vu H. Pham, Lauren Emiko Hokoyama, Arthur Sakamoto, Hyeyoung Woo, Keng-Loong Yap, Jeremy S. Wu, Carson K. Eoyang, David T. Takeuchi, Seunghye Hong, Ninez A. Ponce, Melissa Gatchell, Laurent S. Tao, Jini Han, and Ami N. Shah Read the Editors’ Note: Two Foci: "Glass Ceiling?" and "Health Data" by Paul Ong, Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, and Deborah Woo (Adobe PDF Document) Read the Press Release on AAPI Nexus Journal's Glass Ceiling Issue Browse the Table of Contents (Adobe PDF Document) |
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"Youth," 4:2 (2006) Guest Editor: Karen Umemoto There is no question that adolescent violence and related risk behaviors are a serious problem in the U.S. today. Over the past several decades, there has been a concerted effort to identify factors that pose a risk for or serve as protection against delinquency and violence using large sample and longitudinal studies of youth. Together, the articles in this special issue belie the simplistic "whiz kid" stereotypes. "These articles," says Umemoto, "contribute to the critical conversation on the risks, challenges, and opportunities facing AAPI youth." Authors: James Diego Vigil, Tomson H. Nguyen, Jesse Cheng, Thao N. Le, Judy L. Wallen, Ahn-Luu T. Huynh-Hohnbaum, David Tokiharu Mayeda, Lisa Pasko, Meda Chesney-Lind, Isami Arifuku, Delores D. Peacock, Caroline Glesmann, Deborah Woo. Read the Editors’ Note: Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth: Risks, Challenges and Opportunities by Karen Umemoto and Paul Ong (Adobe PDF Document) Read the Press Release on the issue: Special Focus on Youth Facing Risks Browse the Table of Contents (Adobe PDF Document) |
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"Art & Cultural Institutions," 5:1 (2007) Guest Editor: Franklin Odo "AAPIs and Cultural Institutions," features how organizations like museums, traveling exhibits, performance troupes, and libraries represent AAPI communities and their diverse experiences. "Incorporation of AAPIs individually and organizationally by this nation's cultural sector can lead to political complacency and isolation from the broader social movement long before the ultimate goals are achieved," the editors write. "The larger challenge before us, then, is renewing the passion for progressive social change." Authors: ShiPu Wang, Clara M. Chu, Todd Honma, Leslie Ito, John Rosa, Lewis Kawahara, Nadereh Pourat, Ninez A. Ponce, Roberta Wyn. Read the Editors’ Note: Art & Cultural Institutions and AAPI Communities by Franklin Odo and Paul Ong (Adobe PDF Document) Read the Press Release on the issue Art and Cultural Institutions Browse the Table of Contents (Adobe PDF Document) |
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"Welfare Reform," 5:2 (2007) This issue features research on how Asian American communities are affected by and respond to policies related to welfare reform, healthcare, education, and art/cultural institutions. According to outgoing Senior Editor Paul Ong, a common thread among these articles is the commitment to building bridges between the university, AAPI communities, and the larger society. Authors: Linda Vo, Chong-suk Han, Edward Echtle, Evelyn Blumenberg, Lily K. Song, Paul M. Ong, Julian Chun-Chung Chow, Grace Yoo, Catherine Vu, Lois M. Takahashi, Michelle G. Magalong. Read the Editors’ Note by Paul Ong (Adobe PDF Document) Read the Press Release on the issue Welfare Reform Browse the Table of Contents (Adobe PDF Document) |
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"Model Minority Myth," 6:1 (2008) In this inaugural issue of the new Senior Editor, Majorie Kagawa-Singer, Nexus presents five articles that explore the diversity within Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders , including the disparities that continue to mark some of their experiences. These articles address the diversity within the AAPI communities that are often dismissed due to the model minority myth. They also help to develop new ways to intervene and prevent other pervasive problems from increasing in these communities. Authors: Paul M. Ong, Melany dela Cruz-Viesca, Don T. Nakanishi, Su Yeong Kim, Aprile D. Benner, Rena Mae Nalani Reid, Kathleen Ongbongan, Donna Dennerlein, Deborah K. Spencer, Robyn Greenfield Matloff, Drug Brugge, Angela C. Lee, Roland Tang, Jeanne Shimatsu, Eric C. Wat, Camillia Lui. Read the Editors’ Note: The Other Side of the Model Minority Coin by Marjorie Kagawa-Singer (Adobe PDF Document) Read the Press Release on the issue Model Minority Myth Browse the Table of Contents (Adobe PDF Document) |
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"Aging," 6:2 (2008) Guest Editors: Namkee G. Choi and Jim Lubben With an ever growing number of older AAPIs, these older adults face additional challenges such as higher poverty rates among all older adults in the United States, lower rates of having private insurance, and many unmet mental health needs. Because of the challenges that aging populations pose to social policy, these papers help shape future culturally sensitive programs and services to AAPI elders and families. Authors: Herb Shon, Ailee Moon, Jong Won Min, Siyon Rhee, Phu Phan, Jessica Rhee, Thanh Tran, Poorni G. Otilingam, Margaret Gatz, Sela V. Panapasa, Voon Chin Phua, James W. McNally. Read the Editors’ Note: Aging by Namkee Choi and James Lubben (Adobe PDF Document) Read the Press Release on the Aging issue Browse the Table of Contents (Adobe PDF Document) |
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"K-12 Education" 7:1 (2009) Guest Editors: Peter N. Kiang and Mitchell Chang The first of three issues on education, this issue focuses on K-12 education. With significant economic struggles and budget cuts in this new decade, these issues will help to inform the education policies and changing AAPI populations. As guest editors Peter Nien-chu Kiang (University of Massachusetts Boston) and Mitchell J. Chang (UCLA) write, “Asian American and Pacific Islander communities have individually and collectively invested enormous trust in US educational institutions on behalf of themselves and their children.†Authors: Patricia Espiritu Halagao, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Joan May T. Cordova, Leena Neng Her, Valerie Ooka Pang, Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy, Jean J. Ryoo, Lusa Lo, Joseph Wu. Read the Editors’ Note: K-12 Education by Peter Nien-chu Kiang and Mitchell J. Chang (Adobe PDF Document) Read the Press Release on the K-12 Education Issue Browse the Table of Contents (Adobe PDF Document) |
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"Higher Education" 7:2 (2009) |
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"Intersections of Education" 8:1 (2010) Read the Editors’ Note: Praxis and Power in the Intersections of Education by Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Peter N. Kiang, and Samuel D. Museus (Adobe PDF Document) |
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"Mental Health" 8:2 (2010) Contextualizing the challenges of addressing AAPI mental health, guest editors, Gilbert C. Gee (UCLA), Phillip D. Akutsu (CSU Sacramento), and Margaret Shih (UCLA), in their introduction illustrate how cultural, historical, and community diversity have led to underutilization of services and a lack of data. They call for new research that seriously considers the theories related to differences among diverse AAPI populations. Read the Editors’ Note: Culture and Mental Health: Risk, Prevention and Reading the Press Release on the Mental Health issue View the Abstracts |
AAPI NEXUS: EDITORIAL BOARD
Pauline Agbayani, Social Welfare, CSULA
Roshan Bastani, Health Services and Public Health, UCLA
Mitchell Chang, Higher Education and Organizational Change, UCLA
Clara Chu, Library and Information Studies, UCLA
Margaret Fung, Asian Pacific American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Tessie Guillermo, ZeroDivide
Lisa Hasegawa, National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
J.D. Hokoyama, Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc.
Tarry Hum, Urban Studies, Queens College, City University of New York
Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Community Health Sciences and Public Health, UCLA
Jerry Kang, Law, UCLA
Snehendu Kar, Community Health Sciences & Public Health, UCLA
Peter Kiang, Education and Asian American Studies, University of MA, Boston
Daphne Kwok, Asians and Pacific Islanders with Disabilities of California
Gregory Cendana, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO
Taeku Lee, Public Policy, Harvard University
James Lubben; Social Work, Boston College
Ailee Moon, Social Welfare, UCLA
Robert Nakamura, Film and TV, Asian American Studies, UCLA
Thu-huong Nguyen-Vo, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Paul Ong, Urban Planning, UCLA
William Ouchi, Management, UCLA
Edward Park, Asian Pacific American Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Ninez Ponce, Public Health, UCLA
Leland Saito, Sociology and American Studies in Ethnicity, University of Southern California
David Takeuchi, Social Work, University of Washington
Doua Thor, Southeast Asian Resource Action Center
Karen Umemoto, Urban & Regional Planning, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Ling-chi Wang, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
Deborah Woo, Community Studies, UC Santa Cruz
