First Advisor
Tina Burdsall
Date of Award
2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Biology and University Honors
Department
Biology
Subjects
Asian Americans -- Social conditions, Asian Americans -- Public opinion, Race discrimination -- United States
DOI
10.15760/honors.193
Abstract
This purpose of this thesis is to discuss barriers to the public discussion of discrimination against Asian-Americans. The literature addresses three major barriers: model minority status, portrayal in media, and cultural desire to assimilate. This thesis discusses how Asian-Americans contain generational, ethnic, and immigration-based diversity that complicates these barriers, while also positing that diversity itself presents a barrier. This project concludes with a brief discussion of "intra-ethnic othering," the discrimination that occurs between Asian subgroups, as another barrier to public discussion of Asian-American discrimination.
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Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15600
Recommended Citation
Ing, Samantha I., "Diversity within Asian Americans: Barriers to the Public Discussion of Discrimination" (2015). University Honors Theses. Paper 175.
https://doi.org/10.15760/honors.193