May 24, 2009
For Immediate Use
Melany Dela Cruz-Viesca, melanyd@ucla.edu
(310) 206-7738
"New issue of UCLA's AAPI Nexus explores the other side of model minority myth with new Senior Editor"
The Asian American Pacific Islander Nexus Journal: Policy, Practice and Community (AAPI
Nexus) is pleased to announce its newest Senior Editor, Professor Marjorie
Kagawa-Singer of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health. In
Kagawa-Singer's first special issue, vol. 6.1, the journal presents five articles that
explore the diversity within these communities, including the disparities that continue
to mark some of their experiences. The issue begins with the inaugural note from
Kagawa-Singer that highlights a new vision for the journal, which works to bring visibility and attention to marginalized experiences within the Asian American, Native
Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations through research and policy. Paul M. Ong,
Melany dela Cruz-Viesca, and Don T. Nakanishi explore in the first article how to provide
these communities with agency through voting. In discussing the potential political power of the AA/NH/PI population, Ong et al. provide insight into how to create policy
changes that can benefit these communities.
This issue also explores three pervasive difficulties that challenge the model minority
myth, including:
Su Yeong Kim and colleagues, in "'It's like we're just renting from here': The Pervasive
Experiences of Discrimination of Filipino Immigrant Youth Gang Members in Hawai'i," which
examines these youth gang members and their challenges in Hawai'i. This piece also
includes avenues to help with intervention for these youth who join gangs in order to have agency and protection from discrimination.
Robyn Greenfield Matloff et al. explore in "The Obesity Epidemic in Chinese American
Youth?: A Literature Review and Pilot Study" Chinese American youth and possible risk
factors for the growing epidemic of obesity in Boston's Chinatown. The study also
discusses the role of acculturation and changing lifestyles that result from immigration experiences.
Jeanne Shimatsu and colleagues include data about the rates of alcohol use and risky
sexual behaviors with their piece, "Sex and Alcohol on the College Campus: An Assessment
of HIV-Risk Behaviors among AAPI College Students." This paper also includes ways that
can help intervene and address the alarmingly high number of unprotected sex and alcohol
use found in their study. These articles address the diversity within the AAPI
communities that are often dismissed due to the model minority myth. These informative
pieces help to develop new ways to intervene and prevent other pervasive problems from
increasing in these communities.
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