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"More than 1.3 million Korean Americans live in the United States, the majority of them foreign-born immigrants and their children, the so-called 1.5 and second generations. While many sons and daughters of Korean immigrants outwardly conform to the stereotyped image of the upwardly mobile, highly educated super-achiever, the realities and challenges that the children of Korean immigrants face in their adult lives as their immigrant parents grow older and confront health issues that are far more complex. In Caring Across Generations, Grace J. Yoo and Barbara W. Kim explore how earlier experiences helping immigrant parents navigate American society have prepared Korean American children for negotiating and redefining the traditional gender norms, close familial relationships, and cultural practices that their parents expect them to adhere to as they reach adulthood. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 137 second and 1.5 generation Korean Americans, Yoo & Kim explore issues such as their childhood experiences, their interpreted cultural traditions and values in regards to care and respect for the elderly, their attitudes and values regarding care for aging parents, their observations of parents facing retirement and life changes, and their experiences with providing care when parents face illness or the prospects of dying. A unique study at the intersection of immigration and aging, Caring Across Generations provides a new look at the linked lives of immigrants and their families, and the struggles and triumphs that they face over many generations"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Caring across a Lifetime -- 1. Brokering Dreams -- 2. Giving Back -- 3. Caring about Culture -- 4. Gender at Work -- 5. In the Midst of Caring for Ill Parents -- 6. Linked Lives -- Appendix: Demographic Background -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Authors

Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today is the first major reference work focused on the full expanse of contemporary Asian American experiences in the United States. Drawing on over two decades of research, it takes an unprecedented look at the major issues confronting the Asian American community as a whole, and the specific ethnic identities within that communityÑfrom established groups such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans to newer groups such as Cambodian and Hmong Americans.||Across two volumes, Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today offers 110 entries on the current s

As a rapidly growing population, America's Asian community is gaining increased attention from the research and policy sectors. This large, diverse group tends to be viewed as a single entity, yet its subgroups reveal great variety in terms of health, from disease rates and mortality rates to attitudes toward illness and access to care. The Handbook of Asian American Health makes significant inroads toward rectifying this situation by exploring the unique needs and health concerns of particular subgroups within the Asian American community. It consolidates a wide range of knowledge on various health issues impacting Asian Americans while also providing cogent discussion on cultural, social, and structural forces impacting morbidity, mortality and quality of life. Contributors identify key challenges and emerging trends faced by specific ethnic groups regarding diseases and illnesses, describe innovative community-based interventions, and spotlight research areas that need additional study to further advance the understanding of this dynamic population's complex health concerns. Included in the Handbook: Ethnicity and health: perspectives from nine different Asian-American groups.Social determinants of health: culture, acculturation, socioeconomic status, racism, and more.Critical health/mental health concerns facing Asian Americans, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer's.Issues in health care delivery: access, quality, and end-of-life care.Social advocacy, health, and the Asian-American community.Complementary and alternative medicine use. The Handbook of Asian American Health breaks new ground for policymakers, social workers, researchers, and academics specializing in Asian-American issues, as well as immigration specialists and health care workers.

Background. In the United States, more than 50% of the 1.2 million living with hepatitis B infection are Asian Americans (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2013). In the city of San Francisco, Asian Americans make up 33% of the population and the city itself has the highest rate of liver cancer in the nation (United States Census Bureau, 2010, California Cancer Registry, 2011). In 2007, to address the risk of hepatitis B and liver cancer, the San Francisco Hep B Free Campaign (SFHBF) drew together a comprehensive coalition of key leaders and organizations from media, health care, government, community and business sectors within and beyond the Asian American community. Methods. Based on 13 key informant interviews with stakeholders, this paper explores how SFHBF incorporated local city hospitals as coalition partners to increase knowledge and screening of hepatitis B among Asian Americans throughout San Francisco. Results. Key findings include the various steps needed to involve hospitals including 1) Identify mission and key stakeholders, 2) Create collaborations among hospitals; 3) Identify benefits to hospitals. Implications. This research makes a unique contribution to the literature on engaging hospitals in community health partnerships. The findings have implications for other public health initiatives that are seeking to engage and involve hospitals as partners and collaborators.

<p class="Pa7"><strong>Background: </strong>Filipino Americans have the highest risk for obesity-related type 2 dia­betes and related complications compared with all major Asian American subgroups. Identifying effective interventions to im­prove Filipino health outcomes are needed to reduce this health disparity.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the acceptability and cultural relevance of the PilAm Go4Health program - a culturally adapted mobile health weight-loss lifestyle intervention in­cluding virtual social networking for Filipino Americans with type 2 diabetes.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Design, Setting, Participants: </strong>Qualitative semi-structured post-program interviews ex­plored perceptions of 45 Filipino Americans with type 2 diabetes in Northern California regarding their perceptions of the accept­ability and cultural relevance of PilAm Go­4Health. Participants' mean age was 57.6 years. Sixty-seven interviews were recorded, transcribed, and thematically analyzed by four independent coders.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Results: </strong>Over half (n=26, 57.8%) of the respondents found that a culturally tailored intervention program enhanced their engagement. All (n=45) of the respon­dents felt that mobile health technology promoted their self-efficacy. A majority of the respondents (n=29, 64.4%) expressed that they progressed from despair to self-efficacy as a result of their participation in the intervention. More than one-fourth of the participants (n=13, 28.8%) discussed that the intervention needed further cultural tailoring.</p><p class="Default"><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Overall, PilAm Go4Health — a mobile health weight-loss lifestyle in­tervention — was acceptable and culturally relevant for Filipino Americans with type 2 diabetes. Findings may help inform clinician and researchers on effective intervention strategies for diabetes self-management when designing interventions for diverse populations.</p><p class="Default"><em>Ethn Dis. </em>2017;27(2):143-154; doi:10.18865/ed.27.2.143.</p>

Objective: Filipino Americans have greater risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) and related complications compared to other Asian populations and non-Hispanic Whites. There are few diabetes intervention studies focused on Filipinos and limited evidence regarding the best recruitment strategies for this hard-to-reach population.Methods: This article examined barriers and facilitators to recruitment of Filipino families for the "Caring for Asian Americans through Research and Education on T2D" (CARE-T2D) study, which took place in California from June 2018 through June 2019.Results: Recruitment of 50 Filipino dyads (parent with T2D and adult child) were suc­cessfully met. Gaining trust through cultur­ally tailored strategies was key in recruiting Filipino participants. Tiwala (gaining trust) strategies involved: 1) using Filipino staff as role models for research engagement and 2) incorporating narrative communications or "kuwentuhan" (Filipino cultural storytelling) with recruitment. Other facilitating strategies included in-person presentations at local colleges and organizations, Filipino com­munity leaders' support, snowball sampling, previous study participant listservs, and posting fliers on family/friends' personal social media sites. Barriers to recruitment included research mistrust, confidential­ity concerns, and risks of violating cultural values.Conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the first study to recruit Filipino family dy­ads. Findings will inform researchers and clinicians on how best to recruit Filipino families in community health-related re­search and public health programs. Ethn Dis. 2022;32(1):49-60; doi:10.18865/ed.32.1.49

Since the election in 2008 of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States there have been a plethora of books, films, and articles about the role of race in the election of the first person of color to the White House. None of these works though delves into the intricacies of Mr. Obama's biracial background and what it means. Obama and the Biracial Factor is the first book to explore the significance of mixed-race identity as a key factor in the election of President Obama and examines the sociological and political relationship between race, power, and public policy in the United States with an emphasis on public discourse and ethnic representation in his election . Jolivette and his co-authors bring biracial identity and multiraciality to forefront of our understanding of racial projects since his election. Additionally the authors assert the salience of mixed-race identity in U.S. policy and the on-going impact of the media and popular culture on the development, implementation, and interpretation of government policy and ethnic relations in the U.S. and globally. Obama and the Biracial Factor speaks to a wide array of academic disciplines ranging from political science and public policy to sociology and ethnic studies

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Our Voices -- Introduction: Our Histories -- Part I: Early Era, Indigenous and Global Roots -- 1. Mālamalama: Reconnecting as Native Hawaiian Women through Cultural History -- 2. Global Roots and Gendered Routes: Early Asian American Women's History -- 3. Two Sisters, Two Stories: Transnational Lives of Ume Tsuda and Yona Abiko -- Part II: New Intersections of Race, Gender, Generation, Communities -- 4. "Up to My Elbows in Rice!": Women Building Communities and Sustaining Families in Pre- 1965 Filipina/o America -- 5. Stretching the Boundaries of Christian Respectability, Race, and Gender during Jim Crow: Chinese American Women and the Southern Baptist Church -- 6. Stepping Onstage and Breaking Ground: Asian American Dancers Complicate Race and Gender Stereotypes, 1930s- 1960s -- Part III: New Cultural Formations, New Selves -- 7. "She Speaks Well": Language as Performance of Japanese American Femininity and Social Mobility in Postwar Hawaiʻi -- 8. History, Identity, and the Life Course: Mixed Race Asian American Women -- 9. Ancestral Ethics and Sāmoanness: Explaining the Contemporary Sāmoan American Women -- Part IV: Wartimes and Aftermath -- 10. Memories of Mass Incarceration: Mobilizing Japanese American Women for Redress and Beyond -- 11. Refugee Lifemaking Practices: Southeast Asian Women -- 12. "Defiant Daughters": The Resilience and Resistance of 1.5- Generation Vietnamese American Women -- Part V: Globalization, Work, Family, Community, Activism -- 13. Precarious Labor: Asian Immigrant Women, 1970s- 2010s -- 14. The Backbone of New York City's Chinatown: Chinese Women and the Garment Industry, 1950- 2009 -- 15. Women's Agency and Cost in Migration: Taiwanese American Transnational Families -- 16. "Revolutionary Care" as Activism: Filipina Nurses and Care Workers in Chicago, 1965- 2016 -- Part VI: Spaces of Political Struggles -- 17. The Mother's Tongue: Language, Women, and the Chamorros of Guam -- 18. Asian American Feminisms and Legislative Activism: Patsy Takemoto Mink in the US Congress -- 19. Opening the Path to Marriage Equality: Asian American Lesbians Reach Out to Their Families and Communities -- 20. Turning Points: South Asian Feminist Responses to Gender- Based Violence and Immigration Enforcement -- Part VII: New Diasporas, Diverse Lives, Evolving Identities -- 21. Locating Adoptees in Asian America: Jane Jeong Trenka and Deann Borshay Liem -- 22. "Let Them Attack Me for Wearing the Hijab": Islam and Identity in the Lives of Bangladeshi American Women -- 23. Navigating the Hyphen: Tongan- American Women in Academia -- Part VIII: Gender, Cultural Change, Intergenerational Dynamics -- 24. Linked Lives: Korean American Daughters and Their Aging Immigrant Parents -- 25. Negotiating Cultural Change: Professional Hmong American Women -- 26. Stories and Visions across Generations: Khmer American Women -- Reflections -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Taxonomy of Auntie Roles -- Introduction -- We Go Down Sewing -- Auntie Sewing Squad Map -- Auntie Sewing Squad Core Values: Transparency + Passion + Humor + Kindness -- Auntie Sewing Squad Bingo -- Ode to the Spreadsheet of Glory -- A Mary Poppins Box of Supplies -- Finding Fabric -- Recipe for Vegan Kimchee -- Moment of Joy -- Labor -- Sewing as Care Work -- Taxonomy of Auntie Care -- The Evolution of Auntie Care -- Auntie Sewing Squad Care-Van -- How to Sew Masks for Fun and No Profit in the Apocalypse -- Mask Ties and Earloops and Nose Pieces -- Bread, Roses, and Face Masks -- Home Sweatshop -- Recipe for Ube Halaya -- Solidarity -- Sewing with Intent -- Behind the Wheel of a Large Automobile Full of PPE -- Badly Licked Bear Relief Van -- Dreaming of My Ancestors: -- Abuela's Facultad -- Solidarity Praxis -- Monk Fabric -- It's in Your Blood: -- Three Generations -- Recipe for Tsukemono Pasta Salad -- A Day in OUR Virtual Life -- Introduction -- Survival -- Sewing as Refuge -- Mending Time: -- Mask Butterfly and Stencil Rose -- Rebirth -- Sewing through a Pan(dem)ic -- How to Measure, Selfie -- Recipe for Nourishing Salve -- Mutual Aid -- Sewing the Pieces Back Together -- ASS Quilt -- Science Is the Light on the Sewing Machine -- My Dad Sewing -- Querida Abuelita Rafaelita -- Sewing Machine -- Treasuring Mom -- Recipe for Earl's Girl Pound Cake -- Posterity -- Teaching Sewing, Teaching Care -- The Auntie Sewing Squad Kids Sewing Camp -- To the Rescue -- Technical Assistance Auntie -- Connecting My Family's One-Hundred-Year Herstory -- Sewing with Mom -- Sewing for the Next Generation -- A Day in the Life of Westside Hub -- Recipe for Chocolate Shortbread Hearts -- We (can) do it -- Coda -- Timeline -- Auntie Sewing Squad Mask Sewing Patterns -- Contributors -- Index