#  Stone Inequality & Social Policy Seminar: Janelle Wong 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 30, 2023** 

 12:00PM - 01:15PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Allison Dining Room**  



 

 



 

###  Asian Americans: Coalitions and Cleavages in US Racial Politics 

 **Janelle Wong,**  *Professor in the Departments of Government and Politics and American Studies, University of Maryland*

 **Abstract:** In this presentation, Janelle Wong will delve into research on the evolving role of Asian Americans within the United States' racial landscape. She will explore the implications of this evolution particularly in terms of Asian Americans' political cleavages and opportunities for collaboration with other racial groups. Wong's focus will encompass topics such as racial and policy attitudes, hate crimes, and demographic shifts, offering a brief overview of contemporary Asian American politics.

 Furthermore, drawing upon her experience as a co-author of several legal briefs submitted in *SFFA v. Harvard* and two instances involving Asian American parent groups and magnet school admissions in Virginia and Maryland, Wong will discuss conservative mobilizations and anti-Black sentiment as influential forces that Asian American communities must grapple with in the present and foreseeable future.

 **Janelle Wong** is Professor in the Departments of Government and Politics and American Studies and a core faculty member in the Asian American Studies Program. From 2001-2012, Wong was in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She received her PhD from the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Wong is the author of *Immigrants, Evangelicals and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change* (2018, Russell Sage Foundation), *Democracy’s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions* (2006, University of Michigan Press) and co-author of two books on Asian American politics, including *Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities* (2011, Russell Sage Foundation), based on the first national, multilingual, multiethnic survey of Asian Americans. She was a co-principal investigator on the 2016 National Asian American Survey, a nation-wide survey of Asian American political and social attitudes, and was a co-principal investigator on the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Post-election Survey (funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation). Wong is a Senior Researcher with AAPI Data. Wong grew up in Yuba City, CA and attended UCLA as an undergraduate.



 

 



 

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