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Papers by Jenny Banh

AAPI Nexus, 2023

Despite the Model Minority Myth, Cambodians and Sino-Cambodians have one of the lowest graduation... more Despite the Model Minority Myth, Cambodians and Sino-Cambodians have one of the lowest graduation rates among Asian Americans.
What are the barriers and bridges to this community’s academic success? This study’s findings suggest that the barriers to Cambodians
American’s academic excellence are structural, intergenerational traumas and the lack of social and economic capital. The academic bridges
are financial aid, parental activism, ethnic clubs, and community
involvement. Public policy recommendations are to increase college
readiness K–12 programs such as Advancement Via Individual Determination, Upward Bound, and Equal Opportunity Program. It is also
crucial to have college outreach programs such as the Journey to Success Program, service learning to cultural centers, and Asian American
studies classes.

Journal of Chinese Overseas 20 (2024) 231–255, 2024

Chinese restaurants in the US are symbolic “canaries in the coalmine,” indicating wide- spread an... more Chinese restaurants in the US are symbolic “canaries in the coalmine,” indicating wide-
spread anti-Asian hate by attracting negative reactions from the American community
but also inspiring love and resistance from the Asian American community. This study
examines the relationship between the number of American Chinese restaurant clo-
sures, lowered revenue, and the incidence of anti-Asian American hate crimes in the
US during the 2019–2022 period. During the pandemic, many American Chinese restaurants lost revenue or closed down. The findings of this study suggest that hatred directed at Chinese American restaurants historically and because of COVID-19 correlates with the incidence of anti-Asian hate crimes. Chinese Americans and Asian Americans are fighting back against this xenophobia via social media campaigns urging consumers to support Chinese restaurants and Chinatowns economically and socially. The vacillating reception of Chinese restaurants in the US shows how culture
and consumption are intimately interrelated with society.

Authors conducted a literature review on higher education excellence and diversity themes. Select... more Authors conducted a literature review on higher education excellence and diversity themes. Selected articles reviewed over a ten year period overwhelmingly suggest that 1) diversity initiatives positively affect both minority and majority students on campus. Significantly, diversity initiatives have an impact not only on student attitudes and feelings toward intergroup relations on campus, but also on institutional satisfaction, involvement, and academic growth. 2) The literature reported that the effects of racial- ethnic, gender, social class, and religious diversity on student learning are often positive but have diverse outcomes. 3) The effects of diversity on inter-group relations promote dialogue and multiracial friendships. 4) Ethnic clubs, programming, themed dorms, cultural affairs, mentoring, and surrounding community engagement have a positive effect on the whole student body. 5) The effects of programs that aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination on diverse college...

Social Sciences

The United States immigration policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) which protects... more The United States immigration policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) which protects some individuals from deportation was enacted in 2012, phased out in 2017 and is now under court challenges. There are still thousands of DACA students currently in higher education. The article highlights promising practices that professors and universities can put in place to support DACA students in the United States. Several semi-structured interviews were conducted with DACA students and Dream Center Directors in California universities to gauge students’ barriers and bridges to their higher education success. DACA students articulated public policy suggestions that universities and professors can immediately enact and have tangible results. Three themes were revealed in the interview data: the need for teacher knowledge, diversity of DACA student experiences, and for actions. These were explained as (1) knowledge of student’s lives, and, conversely, students’ access to information...

Workers' View on Indigenization of Theme Park: A Case Study in Hong Kong, 2019

Company entered into a joint private-public (PPP) partnership to form HKDL: Hong Kong Disneyland ... more Company entered into a joint private-public (PPP) partnership to form HKDL: Hong Kong Disneyland in 2005. In pursuit of profit HKDL tried to "indigenize" or localize to the community by using a local workforce, consumption, language, and cultural space accommodations. There is much written about indigenization but not from the worker's perspective. Based on interview data of a small sample of Hong Kong Disneyland workers, this case study investigates the workers' assessment of whether "indigenization" practices are successful or not. Findings show that workers are ambivalent about indigenization citing negative public relations, and adverse mainland Chinese tourist interactions. The workers feel that true indigenization is complicated by various factors such as perceptions of ethnic and national superiority complexes, ambivalence, and continuing unequal treatment.

Genealogy

According to scholar and Professor Wang Gungwu, there are three categories of Chinese overseas do... more According to scholar and Professor Wang Gungwu, there are three categories of Chinese overseas documents: formal (archive), practical (print media), and expressive (migrant writings such as poetry). This non-fiction creative essay documents what Edna Bonacich describes as an “middleman minority” family and how we have migrated to four different nation-city states in four generations. Our double minority status in one country where we were discriminated against helped us psychologically survive in another country. My family history ultimately exemplifies the unique position “middleman minority” families have in the countries they migrate to and how the resulting discrimination that often accompanies this position can work as a psychological advantage when going to a new country. We also used our cultural capital to survive in each new country. In particular, this narrative highlights the lasting psychological effects of the transnational migration on future generations. There is a wa...

Pacific Historical Review

Postcolonial Text, Jan 4, 2010

disCLOSURE: A Journal of Social Theory: Two Poems on the Hong Kong Democracy Movement Poem: World... more disCLOSURE: A Journal of Social Theory: Two Poems on the Hong Kong Democracy Movement Poem: World Youngest Democracy Protester Poem: Hong Kong Feast

University and Professor Practices to Support DACA and Undocumented Students: DACA Student Experiences, Teacher Knowledge, and University Actions, 2021

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY

Genealogy Journal, 2019

According to scholar and Professor Wang Gungwu, there are three categories of Chinese overseas do... more According to scholar and Professor Wang Gungwu, there are three categories of Chinese overseas documents: formal (archive), practical (print media), and expressive (migrant writings such as poetry). This non-fiction creative essay documents what Edna Bonacich describes as an "middleman minority" family and how we have migrated to four different nation-city states in four generations. Our double minority status in one country where we were discriminated against helped us psychologically survive in another country. My family history ultimately exemplifies the unique position "middleman minority" families have in the countries they migrate to and how the resulting discrimination that often accompanies this position can work as a psychological advantage when going to a new country. We also used our cultural capital to survive in each new country. In particular, this narrative highlights the lasting psychological effects of the transnational migration on future generations. There is a wall of shame, fear, and traumas in my family's migration story that still pervades today. My family deals with everything with silence, obfuscation, and anger. It has taken me twenty years to recollect a story so my own descendants can know where we came from. Thus, this is a shadow history that will add to the literature on Sino-Southeast Asian migration and remigration out to the United States. Specifically, my family's migration began with my grandfather leaving Guangdong, China to Saigon, Vietnam (1935), to Hong Kong, (1969) (then a British Colony), and eventually to the United States (1975). This article explains why my family migrated multiple times across multiple generations before eventually ending up in California. Professor Wang urges librarians, archivists, and scholars to document and preserve the Chinese migrants' expressive desires of migrant experiences and this expressive memoir piece answers that call.

Recasting the Disney Princess in an Era of New Media and Social Movements, 2020

American Chinese Restaurants: Society, Culture and Consumption, 2020

International Journal of Business Anthropology, 2019

Company entered into a joint private-public (PPP) partnership to form HKDL: Hong Kong Disneyland ... more Company entered into a joint private-public (PPP) partnership to form HKDL: Hong Kong Disneyland in 2005. In pursuit of profit HKDL tried to "indigenize" or localize to the community by using a local workforce, consumption, language, and cultural space accommodations. There is much written about indigenization but not from the worker's perspective. Based on interview data of a small sample of Hong Kong Disneyland workers, this case study investigates the workers' assessment of whether "indigenization" practices are successful or not. Findings show that workers are ambivalent about indigenization citing negative public relations, and adverse mainland Chinese tourist interactions. The workers feel that true indigenization is complicated by various factors such as perceptions of ethnic and national superiority complexes, ambivalence, and continuing unequal treatment.

AAPI Nexus, 2023

Despite the Model Minority Myth, Cambodians and Sino-Cambodians have one of the lowest graduation... more Despite the Model Minority Myth, Cambodians and Sino-Cambodians have one of the lowest graduation rates among Asian Americans.
What are the barriers and bridges to this community’s academic success? This study’s findings suggest that the barriers to Cambodians
American’s academic excellence are structural, intergenerational traumas and the lack of social and economic capital. The academic bridges
are financial aid, parental activism, ethnic clubs, and community
involvement. Public policy recommendations are to increase college
readiness K–12 programs such as Advancement Via Individual Determination, Upward Bound, and Equal Opportunity Program. It is also
crucial to have college outreach programs such as the Journey to Success Program, service learning to cultural centers, and Asian American
studies classes.

Journal of Chinese Overseas 20 (2024) 231–255, 2024

Chinese restaurants in the US are symbolic “canaries in the coalmine,” indicating wide- spread an... more Chinese restaurants in the US are symbolic “canaries in the coalmine,” indicating wide-
spread anti-Asian hate by attracting negative reactions from the American community
but also inspiring love and resistance from the Asian American community. This study
examines the relationship between the number of American Chinese restaurant clo-
sures, lowered revenue, and the incidence of anti-Asian American hate crimes in the
US during the 2019–2022 period. During the pandemic, many American Chinese restaurants lost revenue or closed down. The findings of this study suggest that hatred directed at Chinese American restaurants historically and because of COVID-19 correlates with the incidence of anti-Asian hate crimes. Chinese Americans and Asian Americans are fighting back against this xenophobia via social media campaigns urging consumers to support Chinese restaurants and Chinatowns economically and socially. The vacillating reception of Chinese restaurants in the US shows how culture
and consumption are intimately interrelated with society.

Authors conducted a literature review on higher education excellence and diversity themes. Select... more Authors conducted a literature review on higher education excellence and diversity themes. Selected articles reviewed over a ten year period overwhelmingly suggest that 1) diversity initiatives positively affect both minority and majority students on campus. Significantly, diversity initiatives have an impact not only on student attitudes and feelings toward intergroup relations on campus, but also on institutional satisfaction, involvement, and academic growth. 2) The literature reported that the effects of racial- ethnic, gender, social class, and religious diversity on student learning are often positive but have diverse outcomes. 3) The effects of diversity on inter-group relations promote dialogue and multiracial friendships. 4) Ethnic clubs, programming, themed dorms, cultural affairs, mentoring, and surrounding community engagement have a positive effect on the whole student body. 5) The effects of programs that aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination on diverse college...

Social Sciences

The United States immigration policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) which protects... more The United States immigration policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) which protects some individuals from deportation was enacted in 2012, phased out in 2017 and is now under court challenges. There are still thousands of DACA students currently in higher education. The article highlights promising practices that professors and universities can put in place to support DACA students in the United States. Several semi-structured interviews were conducted with DACA students and Dream Center Directors in California universities to gauge students’ barriers and bridges to their higher education success. DACA students articulated public policy suggestions that universities and professors can immediately enact and have tangible results. Three themes were revealed in the interview data: the need for teacher knowledge, diversity of DACA student experiences, and for actions. These were explained as (1) knowledge of student’s lives, and, conversely, students’ access to information...

Workers' View on Indigenization of Theme Park: A Case Study in Hong Kong, 2019

Company entered into a joint private-public (PPP) partnership to form HKDL: Hong Kong Disneyland ... more Company entered into a joint private-public (PPP) partnership to form HKDL: Hong Kong Disneyland in 2005. In pursuit of profit HKDL tried to "indigenize" or localize to the community by using a local workforce, consumption, language, and cultural space accommodations. There is much written about indigenization but not from the worker's perspective. Based on interview data of a small sample of Hong Kong Disneyland workers, this case study investigates the workers' assessment of whether "indigenization" practices are successful or not. Findings show that workers are ambivalent about indigenization citing negative public relations, and adverse mainland Chinese tourist interactions. The workers feel that true indigenization is complicated by various factors such as perceptions of ethnic and national superiority complexes, ambivalence, and continuing unequal treatment.

Genealogy

According to scholar and Professor Wang Gungwu, there are three categories of Chinese overseas do... more According to scholar and Professor Wang Gungwu, there are three categories of Chinese overseas documents: formal (archive), practical (print media), and expressive (migrant writings such as poetry). This non-fiction creative essay documents what Edna Bonacich describes as an “middleman minority” family and how we have migrated to four different nation-city states in four generations. Our double minority status in one country where we were discriminated against helped us psychologically survive in another country. My family history ultimately exemplifies the unique position “middleman minority” families have in the countries they migrate to and how the resulting discrimination that often accompanies this position can work as a psychological advantage when going to a new country. We also used our cultural capital to survive in each new country. In particular, this narrative highlights the lasting psychological effects of the transnational migration on future generations. There is a wa...

Pacific Historical Review

Postcolonial Text, Jan 4, 2010

disCLOSURE: A Journal of Social Theory: Two Poems on the Hong Kong Democracy Movement Poem: World... more disCLOSURE: A Journal of Social Theory: Two Poems on the Hong Kong Democracy Movement Poem: World Youngest Democracy Protester Poem: Hong Kong Feast

University and Professor Practices to Support DACA and Undocumented Students: DACA Student Experiences, Teacher Knowledge, and University Actions, 2021

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY

Genealogy Journal, 2019

According to scholar and Professor Wang Gungwu, there are three categories of Chinese overseas do... more According to scholar and Professor Wang Gungwu, there are three categories of Chinese overseas documents: formal (archive), practical (print media), and expressive (migrant writings such as poetry). This non-fiction creative essay documents what Edna Bonacich describes as an "middleman minority" family and how we have migrated to four different nation-city states in four generations. Our double minority status in one country where we were discriminated against helped us psychologically survive in another country. My family history ultimately exemplifies the unique position "middleman minority" families have in the countries they migrate to and how the resulting discrimination that often accompanies this position can work as a psychological advantage when going to a new country. We also used our cultural capital to survive in each new country. In particular, this narrative highlights the lasting psychological effects of the transnational migration on future generations. There is a wall of shame, fear, and traumas in my family's migration story that still pervades today. My family deals with everything with silence, obfuscation, and anger. It has taken me twenty years to recollect a story so my own descendants can know where we came from. Thus, this is a shadow history that will add to the literature on Sino-Southeast Asian migration and remigration out to the United States. Specifically, my family's migration began with my grandfather leaving Guangdong, China to Saigon, Vietnam (1935), to Hong Kong, (1969) (then a British Colony), and eventually to the United States (1975). This article explains why my family migrated multiple times across multiple generations before eventually ending up in California. Professor Wang urges librarians, archivists, and scholars to document and preserve the Chinese migrants' expressive desires of migrant experiences and this expressive memoir piece answers that call.

Recasting the Disney Princess in an Era of New Media and Social Movements, 2020

American Chinese Restaurants: Society, Culture and Consumption, 2020

International Journal of Business Anthropology, 2019

Company entered into a joint private-public (PPP) partnership to form HKDL: Hong Kong Disneyland ... more Company entered into a joint private-public (PPP) partnership to form HKDL: Hong Kong Disneyland in 2005. In pursuit of profit HKDL tried to "indigenize" or localize to the community by using a local workforce, consumption, language, and cultural space accommodations. There is much written about indigenization but not from the worker's perspective. Based on interview data of a small sample of Hong Kong Disneyland workers, this case study investigates the workers' assessment of whether "indigenization" practices are successful or not. Findings show that workers are ambivalent about indigenization citing negative public relations, and adverse mainland Chinese tourist interactions. The workers feel that true indigenization is complicated by various factors such as perceptions of ethnic and national superiority complexes, ambivalence, and continuing unequal treatment.

ASAM 88: Critical Thinking SYLLABUS

ASAM50 Asian American Contemporary Issues SYLLABUS

Syllabus: ASAM 8: Asian American Community Health Issues

Syllabus :ASAM 10: ASIAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS & MASS MEDIA

Syllabus :ASAM 10: ASIAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS & MASS MEDIA

Anthropology of Japan and China

Syllabus Anthropology of SE Asia

This class will go over the histories of Southeast Asian Countries (e.g., Cambodia, the Philippin... more This class will go over the histories of Southeast Asian Countries (e.g., Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam). It will also go over the gender and sexuality of a SE Asian Country (i.e. Thailand Toms and Dees). An interdisciplinary approach to contemporary SE Asian American educational experiences, including immigration, employment, sexual orientation, gender, education, family, inter-ethnic, and intra-Asian conflicts. It is usually expected that students will spend approximately 2 hours of study time outside of class for every one hour in class. Since this is a 3-unit class, you should expect to study an average of 5 hours outside of class each week. Prerequisites for the course: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area D.

Catalog Description: The main purpose of ASAM151W is to introduce students to the conventions of ... more Catalog Description: The main purpose of ASAM151W is to introduce students to the conventions of academic writing and critical thinking. Students will learn Anthropological and Sociological techniques of academic writing through the lens of Asian American foodways that explore the political, economic, religious, social, and cultural context of food in Asia and Asian American Studies. Course Description: This course offers an introduction to writing at the upper-division level on the topic of Asian Foodways and considers how globalization shapes Asian Foodways. The main purpose of ASAM151W is to introduce students to the conventions of academic writing and critical thinking. Students will learn writing techniques from the field of Anthropology and Sociology. We will explore various facets of writing, using the subject of Asian and Asian American Foodways, farmers/producers, consumers, and innovators. Additionally, we will go over the pivotal roles of Asian global foodways seen in tea, noodles, siracha, soy sauce, and other food items.