Asian/American Leadership in Perpetually (Yellow) Perilous Times: On Navigating Academia and/in the Post-2024 World

Abstract

In this critical autoethnography that integrates culturally relevant motifs and multimedia data sources, the author describes the complexities of being an Asian/American academic leader in always-perilous times. She focuses on the sociopolitical aspects of being and leading in a highly disruptive post-2024 inter/national context, but also recenters the historical contexts of racially exclusionary, hostile, and segregationist spaces in and out of academia that have impacted Asian/American bodies. She offers comparative and critical analyses of the connections between the past and present, especially around re/emerging concerns and questions about birthright citizenship and other constitutional rights for Asian/Americans.

Keywords

Asian American studies autoethnography counter-narrative ethnicity and race Asian American leadership

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