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“Community Development,” 1:1 (2003)

The inaugural issue examines the topic of community development by policy advocates and applied social scientists from across the nation with editors Paul M. Ong and Don T. Nakanishi.

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“Civil Rights,” 2:1 (2004)

Most of the essays and articles in this special issue of AAPI Nexus were originally produced for a strategic roundtable held in October 2002 and sponsored by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. The two-day roundtable at Harvard drew participants from the worlds of both academia and advocacy with the goals of exploring common objectives to address racial justice for Asian Americans, illuminating new problems and issues, and grappling with the many challenges facing Asian American communities in the post-9/11 world.

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“Voting,” 2:2 (2004)

Politicians, political activists, and professors contributed commentaries, policy research reports, and detailed accounts of exit polls and voting rights compliance strategies that can be used in AAPI communities.

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“Health,” 3:1 (2005)

The six articles in these two issues focusing on health cover the three categories adopted by AAPI Nexus to create forums for voices from multiple areas of expertise, and to disseminate data, information, and knowledge to our diverse audience. “Practitioner’s Essays” are opinion-based articles that give the writers an opportunity to broadly discuss the challenges and accomplishments facing AAPIs, and to lay out an agenda for action. Takeuchi and Hong; and Liou and Hirota contribute the two Practitioner’s Essays for this and the other upcoming issue. In honoring the journal’s overall mission to bridge the world of research and practice, we seek applied social science and policy-oriented research articles, such as those by Ponce and Gatchell; and by H. Chen et al. Finally, we include two articles (C. Chen et al.; and Tao et al.) in the “Almanac Section,” which presents new data or data not readily accessible to our audience and methodologies relevant to studying our community. Although the three categories can and do overlap, each of them has a distinct orientation, which collectively pursues AAPI Nexus’s mission.

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“Employment/Work Issues,” 3:2 (2005)

Scholars, researchers, practitioners, and government officials within this volume examine racial discrimination in employment against Asian Americans, workers’ rights, and economic parity in the global labor market. Guest Editor, Deborah Woo, and Senior Editor, Paul Ong, aim for this issue (the first of two) on AAPI work and employment to “produce the knowledge that will help generate new policies and practices to better serve the cause of greater workforce equity and social justice.”

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“Glass Ceiling/Health Issues,” 4:1 (2006)

In this issue, we shift gears to examine topics related to employment and health. AAPIs are very heterogeneous with respect to both labor-market and health outcomes. While our previous issue on employment (Volume 3, Number 2, Summer/Fall 2005) focused on those at the lower end of the economic ladder, the three articles that form the employment cluster in this issue are related to the “glass ceiling,” which has been defined as the adverse impact of artificial barriers limiting women and minorities from rising to managerial and leadership positions. We purposefully use a question in the title for this cluster of articles because the authors take disparate positions regarding the “glass ceiling” and thus the phenomenon remains an empirical question.

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“Youth,” 4:2 (2006)

There is no question that adolescent violence and related risk behaviors are a serious problem in the U.S. today. Over the past several decades, there has been a concerted effort to identify factors that pose a risk for or serve as protection against delinquency and violence using large sample and longitudinal studies of youth. Together, the articles in this special issue belie the simplistic “whiz kid” stereotypes. “These articles,” says Umemoto, “contribute to the critical conversation on the risks, challenges, and opportunities facing AAPI youth.”

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“Art & Cultural Institutions,” 5:1 (2007)

“AAPIs and Cultural Institutions,” features how organizations like museums, traveling exhibits, performance troupes, and libraries represent AAPI communities and their diverse experiences.  “Incorporation of AAPIs individually and organizationally by this nation’s cultural sector can lead to political complacency and isolation from the broader social movement long before the ultimate goals are achieved,” the editors write. “The larger challenge before us, then, is renewing the passion for progressive social change.”

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“Welfare Reform,” 5:2 (2007)

This issue features research on how Asian American communities are affected by and respond to policies related to welfare reform, healthcare, education, and art/cultural institutions. According to outgoing Senior Editor Paul Ong, a common thread among these articles is the commitment to building bridges between the university, AAPI communities, and the larger society..

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“Model Minority Myth,” 6:1 (2008)

In this inaugural issue of the new Senior Editor, Majorie Kagawa-Singer, Nexus presents five articles that explore the diversity within Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders , including the disparities that continue to mark some of their experiences.  These articles address the diversity within the AAPI communities that are often dismissed due to the model minority myth.  They also help to develop new ways to intervene and prevent other pervasive problems from increasing in these communities.

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“Aging,” 6:2 (2008)

With an ever growing number of older AAPIs, these older adults face additional challenges such as higher poverty rates among all older adults in the United States, lower rates of having private insurance, and many unmet mental health needs.  Because of the challenges that aging populations pose to social policy, these papers help shape future culturally sensitive programs and services to AAPI elders and families.

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“K-12 Education” 7:1 (2009)

The first of three issues on education, this issue focuses on K-12 education. With significant economic struggles and budget cuts in this new decade, these issues will help to inform the education policies and changing AAPI populations.  As guest editors Peter Nien-chu Kiang (University of Massachusetts Boston) and Mitchell J. Chang (UCLA) write, “Asian American and Pacific Islander communities have individually and collectively invested enormous trust in US educational institutions on behalf of themselves and their children.”

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“Higher Education” 7:2 (2009)

Guest editors Mitchell J. Chang (UCLA) and Peter Nien-chu Kiang (University of Massachusetts Boston) have assembled articles that expand the horizon of AAPI educational research in exciting ways that extend beyond well-trotted “model” minority paradigms. The papers in this issue discuss not only challenges that AAPI college students face, but also potential solutions and implications that have implications for future generations of AAPI college students.

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“Intersections of Education” 8:1 (2010)

Guest editors Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales (San Francisco State), Peter Nien-chu Kiang (University of Massachusetts Boston), and Samuel D. Museus (University of Massachusetts Boston) present a series of articles that intentionally connect across the domains of K-12 and higher education. The manuscripts help to “discover glimpses of possibility for improvements in access, retention, and curricular matters.”

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“Mental Health” 8:2 (2010)

Contextualizing the challenges of addressing AAPI mental health, guest editors, Gilbert C. Gee (UCLA), Phillip D. Akutsu (CSU Sacramento), and Margaret Shih (UCLA), in their introduction illustrate how cultural, historical, and community diversity have led to underutilization of services and a lack of data. They call for new research that seriously considers the theories related to differences among diverse AAPI populations.

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“Forging the Future: The Role of New Research, Data, & Policies for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, & Pacific Islanders”9:1-2 (2011)

The “Forging the Future” special double issue is arguably the most comprehensive publication to date on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI), demographic data trends, and federal policy – including policy briefs on Civil Rights, Economic Development, Education, Health, and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders by over 50 leading AANHPI scholars, applied-researchers, and community leaders from all over the nation. Answering President Barack Obama’s call to increase participation by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in federal programs, UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center is spotlighting ways to improve education, healthcare and housing for traditionally under-represented groups, like Native Hawaiians and Hmong Americans, with this pioneering new AAPI Nexus journal special issue. The release of this journal coincides with the second anniversary of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI), established on October 14, 2009, when President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13515: “Increasing the Participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Federal Programs.” The special issue includes activities of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders from 2009-2011, and research originally presented at a WHIAAPI convening on research and data collection in December 2010.

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“Special Issue on Immigration”10:1 (2012)

This collection of essays tie together some of the most important overlaps between immigration studies and Asian American Studies, and they present collectively a compelling portrait of how Asian American communities have continued to change as a result of on-going migration trends. These essays remind us that new Asian migrants have enlarged and complicated the very definition of the term, “Asian American,” and they tell important stories about how class, immigration status, and settlement patterns have altered the communities and regions that have been so central to Asian American Studies scholars.

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“Special Issue on Asian Americans in Global Cities: Los Angeles – New York Connections and Comparisons”10:2 (2012)

This special AAPI Nexus issue examines Asian American experiences in global cities through comparative studies of Los Angeles and New York. The demographic facts are astonishing— more than a quarter of the sixteen million Asian Americans reside in either of the two greater metropolises where they comprise more than a tenth of the total population in each region. Consequently, it is difficult to fully understand and appreciate Asian American experiences without studying these two global cities.

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“Special Issue on Tenth Anniversary and Asian American & Pacific Islander Environmentalism: Expansions, Connections, & Social Change” 11:1 & 2(2013)

This issue of AAPI Nexus Journal 11:1-2, “Asian American and Pacific Islander Environmentalism: Expansions, Connections, and Social Change,” marks the 10th Anniversary of the journal and commemorates the 20th Anniversary of Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice. The special double issue focuses on the timely topics of Environmental Justice, Education, and Immigration and aims to inform policy debates and arenas with research on understudied populations and topics related to Asian American and Pacific Islanders.

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“Special Issue on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Communities and Federally Qualified Health Centers” 12:1 & 2 (2014)

The goal of this special issue is to provide a compendium of papers that highlight the progress of featured FQHCs toward achieving these triple aims. Their accomplishments are demonstrated in the following articles, which build on a research infrastructure and measurement framework to track population health improvements and disparities, on promising culturally and linguistically appropriate practices and care models that are patient-centered and community-engaged, and on payment approaches and innovations that could reduce costs and fairly reward FQHC efforts that explicitly address the social determinants of the health of their patients.

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“Special Issue on Wealth Inequality and Asian American Pacific Islanders” 13:1 & 2 (2015)

This special issue of the Asian American Pacific Islander Nexus Journal focuses on wealth— the accumulation of all your assets, both physical and financial investments. In particular, why wealth is what really matters and is as important as income in better understanding economic inequality.

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“Special Issue on AAPIs 2040” 14:1 (Spring 2016)

AAPI 2040 provides a window to the future. It offers what AAPIs want to see for the AAPI Dream by examining it at the likely trajectory versus a desired trajectory. It also provides recommendations for how to achieve the AAPI Dream.

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“Special Issue on AAPIs 2040” 14:2 (Fall 2016)

The goal of Nexus’ 2040 Special Issue (published in two parts) is to develop a vision for the future based on an anticipated high population growth rate. For example, immigration was a central theme during the presidential election, and it will carry over into the next administration. New legislation, policies, and programs can have massive impacts, which can affect population projections. While the math behind demographic projections can be relatively precise, with rounded estimates given in six digits, the projections are not necessarily accurate when the fundamentals are in question.

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“Special Issue on Asians in the Anglo-sphere” 15:1 & 2 (Fall 2017)

After a decade and a half of existence, AAPI Nexus will become an open-access journal, a move that we hope will increase the social and political value of our contributors. This means granting “free, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit, and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship” (Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, June 20, 2003). This 2017 issue is our last under the more traditional and restrictive publication format, which is the prevailing practice within the academy. Next year, we will make all future practitioners’ essays, resource papers, and research articles readily accessible online, with no cost to users. We believe that this approach will better serve our communities in providing them with actionable knowledge to improve policy, practice, advocacy, and organizing.

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“Bridging the Divide: Strengthening Community Engagement and Partnership” 16:1 & 2 (Fall 2018-2019)

What are the theories of change in the field of Asian American studies and research on Asian Americans and/or Pacific Islanders (AAPIs)? What are the ethics of care that researchers should embody in developing university-community partnerships? The articles in this special issue call for a reenergized agenda for AAPI university-community research partnerships, demonstrating transformative methodologies, pedagogies, and praxis.

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“Inflection Point 2020: Coronavirus, Census and Elections for AAPIs” 17:1 & 2 (Fall 2020)

The year 2020 will reshape the future landscape of the United States and the world. As a watershed year in which three major events occur: the coronavirus pandemic, decennial census, and a presidential election. The convergence of these three could bring about wildly different outcomes that it represents an inflection point for our social, economic, health and political future. Issues at stake include fair political representation, faith in political institutions, affordable health care, protection of civil liberties, equitable economic recovery and immigrant rights. AAPI Nexus Journal asks what are the implications for the next ten to twenty years?

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“Inflection Point 2020: Coronavirus, Census and Elections for AAPIs” Part II, 18:1 & 2 (Fall 2021)

The year 2020 will reshape the future landscape of the United States and the world. As a watershed year in which three major events occur: the coronavirus pandemic, decennial census, and a presidential election. The convergence of these three could bring about wildly different outcomes that it represents an inflection point for our social, economic, health and political future. Issues at stake include fair political representation, faith in political institutions, affordable health care, protection of civil liberties, equitable economic recovery and immigrant rights. AAPI Nexus Journal asks what are the implications for the next ten to twenty years?

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“Models of Change: AANAPISIs in Action” 19:1 & 2 (2022)

We begin 2022 both mindful and hopeful. The COVID-19 pandemic, the heightened racial and social inequality, the rise of anti-Asian hate, as well as the disrupted 2020 Census and the contentious 2020 presidential election, together created an environment of disorder. The world, our nation, and our institutions of higher education were turned upside down these last two years. Amid the chaos and calamity, it is more important than ever to remember the words of Martin Luther King Jr.: “Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.”

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Special Issue, 20:1 & 2 (2023)

This special issue information is being updated…

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“Asian American Studies Now! Contemporary Opportunities and Challenges in Higher Education” 21:1 & 2 (Spring 2024)

In Fall of 1969, the nation’s first College of Ethnic Studies was established at San Francisco State College (now University, SFSU), leading the way for establishing Ethnic Studies programs at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Over fifty years later, on August 17, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1460 (AB 1460) requiring all students enrolled in the twenty-three California State University (CSU) campuses to take a three-unit class in Native American Studies, African American Studies, Asian Ameri- can Studies, or Latina and Latino Studies (Weber, 2020). These courses fulfill the new General Education (GE) Area F: Ethnic Studies. This new law made the CSU system the first system of higher education to mandate Ethnic Studies as a university graduation requirement (CSU, n.d.). AB 1460 came amid a growing push for Ethnic Studies in public education following Black Lives Matter protests, attention to the rise of anti-Asian violence, and calls to dismantle systemic and unconscious racism—starting in schools. This was a defining historical moment, truly a “sea change,” for Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies; this profound transformational shift altered education to the point that it no longer resembles what it once was.