Is Affirmative Action Interfering with the Chinese Dream in America? Exploring WeChat Users' Views on Affirmative Action in US College Admissions

Autor/inn/en	Johnston-Guerrero, Marc P.; Zhao, Kai
Titel	Is Affirmative Action Interfering with the Chinese Dream in America? Exploring WeChat Users' Views on Affirmative Action in US College Admissions
Quelle	In: Race, Ethnicity and Education, 25 (2022) 7, S.939-957 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Johnston-Guerrero, Marc P.) ORCID (Zhao, Kai)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1361-3324
DOI	10.1080/13613324.2020.1753678
Schlagwörter	Affirmative Action; Asian American Students; Chinese Americans; Computer Mediated Communication; College Admission; Misconceptions; Translation; Immigrants; Racism; Cultural Influences; Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Asian immigrant; United States; Student; Students; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Chinese; Chinesen; Computerkonferenz; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Missverständnis; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Rassismus; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Attitude; Einstellung; Verhalten
Abstract	As a fast-growing population in US. society, Asian Americans, particularly Chinese Americans, have started to engage more actively and amplify their presence in the recent legal challenges to affirmative action in college admissions. In order to get a deeper understanding of how US.-based Chinese view affirmative action, we conducted a textual content analysis informed by Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) to analyze comments on several articles surrounding affirmative action published on a WeChat news outlet, "ChineseAmericans." Findings centre around misconceptions of affirmative action driven by different translations of the term from English to Chinese, along with Chinese cultural exceptionalism. This study adds to an emerging body of literature on public perceptions of affirmative action within the Chinese and Chinese immigrant community, whose voices have either been overlooked completely or critiqued as solely pawns in a larger quest to eliminate affirmative action. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01