KellyL09

Hello everyone, my name is Kelly Liao. I'm a senior majoring in Political Science and Asian Studies at Rice University. I'm passionate about reproductive health, immigration justice and transnational activism.

Topic that I'm interested in

• Topic: Asian American Activism
• Reasons for Revision: Asians have a long and rich history of activism in the United States, but it is relatively not as known as that of other racial groups. Although Asian American activism has become more visible to the mainstream since the anti-Asian hate campaigns during the pandemic, the general public is still not much aware of Asian Americans’ rich tradition of protest and active organizing. The prevalent model minority stereotype which tends to portray Asians as silent and obedient not only leaves the impression that Asians have always been submissive to authority, but also discourages the contemporary generations from resisting the status quo of institutionalized racism. In hopes of challenging the predominant racial stereotypes and making the resistance history of Asian Americans more accessible to the general public, I would like to revise and expand the Wikipedia article “Asian American Activism.”
• Planned Work: The existing page has done a great job of documenting Asian American activism in chronological order, listing the major social and political movements from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Although it leads the readers through the events clearly, it provides little historical context to each event, preventing the readers from understanding the greater significance of the movement to each time period. I would like to reorganize the timeline by identifying common threads among movements during the same eras and discussing their impact on and significance to the Asian American community. Moreover, the current article has a rather narrow focus on certain ethnic groups such as Chinese and Filipino Americans and fails to be representative of the whole Asian community. I would like to expand the page by including the experiences of other Asian ethnic groups like Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese and Indian Americans. In addition, I plan to extend the range of the movements to include not only anti-racism ones but also those that intersect with other important social justice issues like women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, labor rights, environmental justice, anti-imperialism and affirmative action. Furthermore, since the existing article places a heavy emphasis on historical events, I hope to draw people’s attention to the contemporary Asian American activism scene by discussing the challenges and opportunities activists encounter and how they navigate them. Finally, I want to highlight the experience of notable Asian American activists who did not gain as much recognition in the US history as other activists like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. This is important since Asians have long been lumped together as a monolithic group and individuals are mostly invisible in American history. Therefore by including the personal stories of several prominent activists, I hope to humanize Asians and allow future generations of Asian Americans to have more role models to look up to.
• List of Potential Sources
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