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Publication Date: 2024
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Using AsianCrit Theory to Understand How Anti-Asian Hate Impacted Mental Health among Asian Women in STEM Doctoral Programs
Aashika Anantharaman; Aisha Farra; Eunhu Chang; Kerrie G. Wilkins-Yel
CBE - Life Sciences Education, v23 n4 Article 57 2024
Steeped in the AsianCrit theoretical framework, the current study examined how anti-Asian hate impacted the mental health of Asian and diasporic Asian doctoral women in STEM. Six emergent themes were identified: 1) Witnessing and Experiencing Anti-Asian Hate; 2) Lack of Institutional and STEM Departmental Support; 3) Impact of Anti-Asian Hate on Asian Women's Mental Health; 4) Protecting One's Mental Health; 5) Resist to Persist; and 6) Calls for Action to Combat Lack of Departmental Support. These findings highlight how Asianization through stereotypes such as the forever-foreigner status, viewing Asians as a monolith, the yellow peril stereotype, and model minority myth simultaneously rendered Asian graduate women hypervisible in the U.S. society and invisible in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Implications for teaching and mentoring are included. These highlight the need for faculty to challenge institutional norms that perpetuate the erasure of the toll that anti-Asian hate levied on Asian doctoral women in STEM.
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Racism, Mental Health, Females, STEM Education, Doctoral Students, Student Experience, Student College Relationship, Coping, Resistance (Psychology), Activism, Stereotypes, Well Being, Asians, Intersectionality, Academic Persistence
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