ERIC Number: EJ1438538
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Oct
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0091-5521
EISSN: EISSN-1940-2325
"You Weren't Good Enough, so Here's a Bronze Medal": Southeast Asian American Students and Racialized Community College Stigma
Varaxy Yi; Vanna Nauk
Community College Review, v52 n4 p434-457 2024
Objective: This study aims to understand how Southeast Asian American (SEAA) community college students experience community college stigma. Methods: This phenomenological study employs AsianCrit as a framework to examine the realities of SEAA students in community college. Ten SEAA community college students underscore how racialization and community college stigma shape their self-perception and college-making decisions. Results: The findings indicate that SEAA community college students experience community college stigma in distinct ways, as shaped by the racialized contexts in which they experience stereotypes in education and in which their peers, educators, and family members inadvertently or intentionally reinforce this stigma. Contributions: These findings indicate that SEAA students experience racialized community college stigma shaped by their raced and racialized positionings within the Asian American racial category and intersecting with the stigmas of attending community college as Asianized individuals. Implications for practice include faculty exploration of how they reinforce racialized community college stigma, deeper engagement with families to minimize the reinforcement of negative stigmas associated with community college, and creating educational opportunities to support students' meaning-making and abilities to resist stigmatization. Future research should expand on SEAA students' experiences of community college stigma to include SEAA community college students across different contexts. Additionally, research focusing on specific ethnic populations under the SEAA umbrella experiencing racialized community college stigma is warranted.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community College Students, Asian American Students, Racial Factors, Critical Race Theory, Asian Culture, Self Esteem, Stereotypes, Labeling (of Persons), Student Experience
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Cambodia; Vietnam; Laos
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