Toward Theorizing Asian American Politics

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Session Description

This roundtable brings together a range of scholars from across the discipline to explore questions about the practice and tradition of theorizing Asian Americans and Asian American politics within political science. How might we learn from each other with the resurgent interest in theorizing Asian Americans and Asian American politics? To what extent is AAPT a normative endeavor that informs empirical research about Asian American politics, especially in the study of race, ethnicity, and politics? Conversely, how should the empirical study of Asian American politics inform the development and trajectory of AAPT? How does AAPT unsettle disciplinary conventions, including the partitioning of subfields and the distinction between normative and empirical scholarship? Where does Asian American political thought fit alongside parallel lines of inquiry in Black, Indigenous, and Latinx politics and political thought, and how does it engage with ongoing conversations about anti-Blackness, transnational racial formations, and decolonization? Panelists include scholars across subfields and substantive interests who engage these and adjacent questions from a range of methodological approaches.

Sub Unit

• Panels

Cosponsor

• Status Committees / Committee on the Status of Asian-Pacific Americans in the Profession

Chair

• Paul M. B. Gutierrez Boston University

Presenters

• Claire Kim

• Charles T. Lee Arizona State University

• Fred Lee University of Connecticut

• Diane Wong Rutgers University, Newark

• Isabel Felix Gonzales University of Virginia