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White Flight, Clustering by Choice, and the Model Minority Resident: An Examination of the West San Gabriel Valley Ethnoburb

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This Article hypothesizes that the creation of the West San Gabriel Valley ethnoburb was caused by both white flight and disproportionate Asian demand for housing generated by the desire to cluster by choice. To test this hypothesis, this Article will use census data from 1970-2009 to analyze the correlations between the influx of Asian residents and the changes in median home value in a given tract in the San Gabriel Valley in accordance with the Economic Theory of White Flight, which will be elaborated on in later section. The findings of this analysis will then be corroborated with observations and reports produced at the time of this racial transition. Finally, this Article seeks to comparatively examine the relatively quick entry of Asian residents and the comparatively slow entry of Black residents in the area, arguing that an exigent factor underlying the expediated entry of Asian residents is the racial positioning of the "Model Minority" resident.

"Measured as Criminals and Labeled as Tea": Surveillance Under Chinese Exclusion

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In 1875, Congress passed the Page Act—one of the earliest federal immigration laws in the United States—beginning a long period of federal immigration law that facilitated heavy scrutiny of Chinese immigrants and excluded most Chinese people from the U.S. From then until nearly a century later, Chinese exclusion was federal law. Even as millions of European immigrants arrived, settled, and naturalized, the vast majority of would-be Chinese immigrants were systematically barred from coming to the U.S.

In addition to passing a series of highly restrictive race-based laws to carry out Chinese exclusion, the U.S. also built and operated a massive government apparatus to document and surveil Chinese Americans. Treated as perpetual outsiders, the few Chinese people who were permitted to migrate to the U.S. were categorically photographed, measured, interrogated, and required to prove their right to exist in the United States through extensive documentation and external validation...

Moving from Essentialism to Intersectionality in Asian American History Curriculum: California as a National Model

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In recent years, activists have campaigned across the country for schools to
incorporate ethnic studies into their curricula. For example, in 2021, California Governor
Gavin Newsom signed a new law mandating an ethnic studies graduation requirement for
all high school students, starting with the class of 2030. While this movement has greatly
benefited students by exposing them to multicultural perspectives, misconceptions, such as
the model minority stereotype often assigned to Asian Americans, still pervade school
curricula. The stereotype portrays Asian Americans as having more of a hard-working
mentality and a propensity for achieving socioeconomic success, compared to other ethnic
groups. This is especially important in a state like California, which is home to nearly a
third of the country’s Asian population and twenty-one Asian ethnic groups. School
curriculum standards must move away from an essentialist point of view, which assumes
that...

National Security or Yellow Peril? America's Approach toward TikTok and Huawei

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The U.S. government’s treatment of TikTok and other Chinese-adjacent tech struggles
to maintain objectivity and belies the Sinophobia that lingers within the political hegemony.
The U.S. is no stranger to Anti-Asian sentiments and policies. This Article will give an
overview of America’s historic mistreatment of Asians, both foreign and natural-born,
before analyzing the government’s treatment of short-form video media giant TikTok and
telecommunications company Huawei. This analysis will seek to differentiate legitimate
security concerns and measures from inequitable ones in either justification or
administration.

Blood Debt

Thu, 7 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Scholars have long criticized the model minority myth as harmful to Asian Americans and rooted in anti-Blackness. Fewer scholars, however, have analyzed whether and to what extent the contemporary Asian American identity emerged from and depends on the model minority myth and with it, anti-Blackness.Even fewer have done so using a Vietnamese-American vantage point. This Article does both.

This Article elevates Vietnamese American voices to disrupt anti-Black narratives in the model minority myth and casts doubt on the usefulness of the very concept of Asian American racial identity. The model minority myth is so intertwined with the Asian American identity that any deconstruction of the myth must also deconstruct the Asian American identity.This Article builds on two preexisting critiques of the model minority myth—flattening and anti-Blackness—from a uniquely Vietnamese American vantage point by elevating the disruptive narratives of Vietnamese Americans and Viet-Black...

Here's How The Affirmative Action Conversation Fails Asian American Students

Thu, 7 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Even after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in which Asian Americans were the plaintiffs in the case of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, Asians continue to remain a non-sequitur in the ongoing debate on race and equity.

Justice Denied and Forgotten: The Hidden History of Alaska's World War II Internment Camps

Thu, 7 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This paper has four parts. Part I gives the necessary historical background on the Unangax̂ up to and during evacuation during World War II. Part II details the conditions of the camps in both Alaska and the continental United States, alongside the return home for both communities. (Most of Part II will be focused on the experience of the Unangax̂, given that lower-48 internment camp history is more widely known.) Part III is a short history of the redress and reparations movement. Part IV explores why the two groups were interned during World War II and the differences in their reparations. Although Japanese American internment was justified as a kind of “security response” during the War, Unangax̂ internment was supposedly for their own protection. But by looking at the orientalization of both Unangax̂ and Japanese Americans, each group’s control over valuable resources, and the difference in reparations, this paper identifies how these disparate groups were tied together by...

Ending Affirmative Action Does Not End Discrimination against Asian Americans

Thu, 7 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In SFFA v. Harvard, the Supreme Court effectively overruled forty-five years of precedent and held that the educational benefit of racial diversity is no longer a “compelling interest.” This decision effectively ends race-conscious college admissions. Interestingly, Asian Americans featured prominently in the litigation. The plaintiff, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), specifically emphasized the plight of Asian Americans as innocent victims of discrimination.

SFFA is no NAACP. It is neither a household name nor a storied civil rights organization. It is instead an entity created by Ed Blum, a California businessperson who has long litigated against affirmative action and voting rights laws. Blum is recorded on video saying “I needed plaintiffs; I needed Asian plaintiffs . . . ” Why seek Asians? It’s because Asian Americans can be framed as especially sympathetic victims, “model minorities” cruelly harmed by affirmative action.

Given this framing, with...

Foreword

Thu, 7 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We began our tenure as editors-in-chief of the Asian Pacific American Law Journal’s (APALJ) Volume 28 in the journal’s tiny office in the back corner of the law school sitting among stacks of publications from the past three decades. Since its founding, APALJ has stood apart in its mission of elevating authentic perspectives on issues at the heart of the Asian American community. It is this mission that shapes our volume; the articles published within draw on stories often overlooked in critiquing established ways of thinking and engaging in a radical imagination of what Asian America could be.

A Less than Perfect Union: Race, Gender, and the Lack of "Perfect Plaintiffs" in Naim v. Naim

Thu, 7 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Restriction of interracial marriage was one of the longest surviving forms of statutory racial segregation in the United States, spanning from 1662 until 1967. Over a decade prior to Loving v. Virginia—the case which decided the unconstitutionality of anti-miscegenation statutes—the Court was faced with a similar case: Naim v. Naim. The appellant of this case, Han Say Naim, was a Chinese immigrant who had married a white woman and had his marriage voided under Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act. Political pressures—specifically fear of interrupting school integration after Brown v. Board of Education—kept the Justices from ruling on interracial marriage in 1955. This paper seeks to go further by looking at the historical background of Asian exclusion to demonstrate how Naim exposes a legal preference for litigants that align closest to monogamous, patriarchal, and white American values, delaying resolution of the interracial marriage question despite favorable equal protection jurisprudence...

Affirmative action isn't hurting Asian Americans. Here's why that myth survives

Thu, 7 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action, focusing on whether Harvard’s consideration of race in admissions intentionally discriminates against Asian Americans, is expected this month. A big part of our research has been to identify anti-Asian discrimination, so we understand how charges that Asian Americans are held to a higher standard in college admissions might feel like another instance of anti-Asian bias. But we just don’t see an Asian American penalty in college admissions.

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Wed, 6 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Coming Home to Health: Addressing Housing Insecurity to Improve the Health of Native Hawaiians in Hawai'i County

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Hawaii has one of the nation’s largest and fastest growing unhoused populations as well as one of the highest costs of living in the country. Native Hawaiians experience housing insecurity at the highest rates among all communities within Hawaii. Hawai’i County, encompassing the entire Big Island of Hawaii, has the highest percentage of Native Hawaiians and demonstrates the unique housing challenges faced by rural Native Hawaiians in the rapidly modernizing and tourist-heavy state. In Hawai’i County, three factors drive Native Hawaiian housing insecurity: 1) high cost of living, 2) insufficient economic opportunities, and 3) the historical underfunding and belated assignment of home lands.

This widespread housing unaffordability among Native Hawaiians in Hawai’i County has a detrimental impact on Native Hawaiian health. Native Hawaiians who face threat of eviction are more likely to experience increased depression, high blood pressure, childhood lifetime hospitalization,...

"Concededly Loyal": Mitsuye Endo and the Continuing Significance of Ex parte Endo

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Ex parte Endo involves issues ranging from the constitutionality of detaining citizens during wartime, judicial avoidance in cases alleging fundamental rights violations, the selectively porous barrier between the judicial and executive branches, the evaluation of a citizen’s loyalty, and the implication of disloyalty due to one’s ancestry—in short, questions of enduring social and legal import that demand further and engaged study with the case and the woman who made it possible. This Article argues that Ex parte Endo and the petitioner at its center merit greater attention and recognition in both legal and cultural discourse.

Legally Codifying A Social Construction: How American Courts Have Weaponized Whiteness to Exclude Black and Chinese People

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Race, including whiteness, is hard to define because different groups have used it differently, for their own purposes. Ian F. Haney López defines race as “a sui generis social phenomenon in which contested systems of meaning serve as the connections between physical features, faces, and personal characteristics . . . social meanings connect our faces to our souls.” Although López focuses his analysis on the othering of Mexicans, he is clear that “a Mexican might also be White, Indian, Black, or Asian.” He describeshow increasing social prejudice against Mexican people “quickly became legal [prejudices],” with laws being passed that both purported to define what a “Mexican” was, and labeled them as “not peaceable and quiet persons.” Ultimately, the “attempt to racially define the conquered, subjugated, or enslaved is at the same time an attempt to racially define the conqueror, the subjugator, or the enslaver.” By creating sub-classes of races, it follows that there would be...

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Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Cultural Zoning as Reparations: Providing Power to Asian American Communities

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This Article combines three different concepts that have previously been researched into something novel. It starts by exploring how Asian Americans can justifiably claim reparations for over a century of xenophobia and exclusion committed by the American government and society. The Article then considers what form reparations should take, considering cultural zoningand its usage by Asian Americans in cities like San Francisco and New York.Then, it considers the value of minorities being granted power rather thanrelying only on the assertion of legal rights, incorporating Professor MaggieBlackhawk’s writing about Indigenous communities. Crucially, ProfessorBlackhawk notes that even the most championed civil rights have considerablelimitations when it comes to providing minority communities the abilityto protect themselves from political and social harm.

Synthesizing these three distinct ideas, the Article then outlines a mechanism to achieve reparations for Asian...

Hiding and Speaking in Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Native Speaker defies easy summary. Published in 1995, Native Speaker engages with the uneasy milieu of its era—the rise of globalization that accompanied the end of the Cold War, race relations and ethnic tensions in the United States during the 1990s and, connecting the two, an increased consciousness of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism.

Criticism about Native Speaker commonly focuses upon Henry’s role as a spy, and the politics of ethnic visibility and racial capital that accompany this creative decision. There is also a strong scholarly focus on place and cosmopolitanism, particularly with Native Speaker’s brief forays into globalism. Finally, John Kwang is another central figure for literary scholars, particularly in conjunction with Henry’s role as a spy and a mole within a Korean American politician’s base. I will depart from these analyses in the general topics of my focus, although they will figure into my scholarship. Instead, this essay will first...

Stopping AAPI Hate: COVID-19 Related Racism and Discrimination Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Its Origins, Our History and Avenues for Redress

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Between March 2020 and March 2022, Stop AAPI Hate received over eleven thousand reports of anti-Asian hate and discrimination. Analysis of the data indicates that 67% of incidents involve harassment, 17% involve physical assault and 12% involve civil rights violations, including refusal of service, vandalism and discrimination in housing and the workplace. Impacts on community members have been significant. Many have turned to criminal law enforcement as the answer. Given that a significant majority of incidents reported to Stop AAPI Hate are not hate crimes, more appropriate means of addressing the harm include prevention and non-carceral approaches, such as civil rights enforcement, community safety, and education equity. Toward that end, Stop AAPI Hate focused its efforts in California on the No Place for Hate CA Campaign that resulted in the enactment of two bills, SB 1161 and AB 2448, to address harassment in public transit and discrimination in retail. Stopping anti-Asian...

“Eliminating Temptation”: Anti-Asian Fetishization, Criminalization, and Violence in America

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This project seeks to examine the ways in which the unique history of fetishization and criminalization of the Asian American body has been and continues to be used to justify violence against the Asian American community, especially those groups most marginalized, such as women, migrants, and sex workers. From early-held Western ideas of Asia as an exotic land ripe for conquest and resource extraction, to notions of early Asian American laborers as machine-like “coolies” who drove down wages and threatened white livelihoods, to the Atlanta tragedy against female spa workers being justified through “eliminating temptation” rhetoric, the desire to consume the Asian American body through labor and sex has been and continues to be used to justify and perpetuate violence and exclusion against the Asian diaspora in the United States.

This paper will focus on how Asian and Asian American women exist at a unique intersection of labor and sex that leaves them particularly vulnerable...

What Constitutes Fair Treatment of Asian American Applicants?

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Today’s challengers of affirmative action in university admissions allege that these policies discriminate against Asian Americans. However, this focus detracts from a more just and effective locus of intervention: admissions disparities between white and Asian American applicants. Notably, defenders of affirmative action err when they reject claims of discrimination against Asian Americans by pointing to differences in facially neutral characteristics between white and Asian American applicants to explain away these admissions disparities. They fail to recognize how these differences in facially neutral factors between white and Asian American applicants resultfrom legacies of racial injustice.

To avoid this error, this Article draws on anti-subordination and sociological literature to posit that identifying unfair treatment against Asian American applicants is fundamentally a normative issue. The question of whether the admissions disparities between white and Asian...

Filial Piety and U.S. Family Law: How Cultural Values Influence Caregiving, End-of-Life, and Estate Planning Decisions in Asian American Families

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Due to centuries of anti-Asian discrimination in U.S. immigration policy and in its court system, many Asian Americans have migrated relatively recently. As a result, many Americans of East and South Asian descent maintain common cultural values such as respect for elders, filial piety, and community wellbeing. This Article examines how these values affect Asian Americans’ approach to decisions regarding the elderly, in particular caregiving, end of life decisions, and estate planning. Finally, the Article proposes suggestions for future research to improve outcomes and meet the legal needs of a growing, aging population.

Doctrinal Instability in Contextual Race-Conscious Review: The Continuing Legacy of the Korematsu Court’s Ultra-Deference Standard

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The judicial tools of standards of review are designed to recognize historical inequities by applying heightened burdens of proof for discrimination and the abridgment of constitutional rights. In this Article, I argue that, in the past twenty-seven years since Adarand Constructors v. Peña, the Supreme Court’s contextual application of strict scrutiny for race and national origin discrimination has evolved to a point of instability, rendering its outcomes indeterminate. This instability is a result of our national conflict over when and how to use race to remedy race-based discrimination.

The Court has selectively applied different standards of deferenced epending on the reasons that the government uses race. In applying these standards, the Court treats governmental use of race, whether benign or invidious, as two sides of the same problem, when in fact they are distinct legal questions. In other words, the Court treats the use of race as suspect regardless of its remedial...

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Sowing The Seeds of Chinese Exclusion As the Reconstruction Congress Debates Civil Rights Inclusion

Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

During Reconstruction, Congress amended the Constitution to fundamentally reorder the legal and social status of African Americans. Congress faced the challenge of determining how Chinese people would fit in to the emerging constitutional structure. This article draws on a method of digitizing the Congressional Globe to more broadly explore the arguments about Chinese rights and privileges during Reconstruction. Unlike African Americans, Chinese were part of an international system of trade and diplomacy; treatment of other people of color was understood as a purely domestic question. In addition, while a core feature of Reconstruction was ending the enslavement of African Americans and overruling Dred Scott by making Africans Americans born in the U.S. citizens and granting them eligibility for naturalization, for Chinese, Congress chose to leave in place racial restrictions on naturalization, which had existed since 1790. This rendered them perpetual foreigners in America. With...

Letter From the Asian/Pacific Islander Law Students Association Regarding Stephen Bainbridge

Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The following letter from the UCLA School of Law chapter of the Asian/Pacific Islander Law Students Association was sent to UCLA School of Law administrators on April 13, 2020, in response to anti-Asian statements by a professor. This was not an isolated incidence of hateful language in the UCLA Law community. Earlier in the school year, other UCLA Law professors used the n-word in academic settings with no warning to students. The letter demonstrates the possibilities for and acievements of antiracist student organizing during a pandemic, when students have no access to the buildings and spaces that have traditionally defined their communities. It is part of ongoing organizing work at law schools and other institutions of higher learning across the country aimed at identifying and uprooting individual and insitutional racism. UCLA Law Review Discourse has chosen to publish the letter as written; the only changes are the inclusion of a preamble and moving hyperlinks to...

Addressing Gendered Trauma, Identity, and the Crime-to-Deportation Pipeline Among Southeast Asian Men

Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Deportation continues to be a pressing concern for the Southeast Asian community. Since 1998, more than 17,000 Southeast Asians have received orders of removal, and over 1,900 have been deported. Notably, the majority of these deportation orders result from old convictions of "aggravated felony" crimes, and the majority of those facing deportation are men. This suggests not only an entrenched crime-to-deportation pipeline, but that Southeast Asian men may face specific issues that predispose them to crime, and for those without U.S. citizenship, deportation. An analysis of Southeast Asian refugee experiences and their intersection with the U.S.' deportation and carceral systems reveals that Southeast Asian men navigate a complicated system of generational and refugee-related trauma, institutional racism, gender disparitites, and socioeconomic inequality. Though these men do retain agency in their actions and choices, these factors often position them towards crime, and ultimately...

Native Hawaiians: The Forgotten in Legal Education

Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Law school admission data results demonstrate significant continuing education and professional barriers encountered by Native Hawaiians. Heavy reliance on standardized admission testing and formulaic admissions standards regrettably deny legal education to an entire race and culture. Institutions vested with the obligation and opportunity to educate are urged to recognize the failings of current admission standards and to move towards a fair and just process to enable Native Hawaiians to pursue higher learning in the face of the historic disparities and disenfranchisement that they've suffered.

Asian American-Owned Banks Do Count: No Wrongful Jailing of Abacus Bank

Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The 2008 financial crisis, described as the worst U.S. economic disaster since the Great Depression, resulted in the criminal prosecution of just one, singular bank: Abacus Federal Savings Bank. This small, family-run community bank based in NYC's Chinatown, catering primarily to Chinese immigrants, never invested in the mortgage-backed securities nor originated the subprime mortgages that were at the root of the financial crisis. Moreover, institutions such as Abacus provide critical services to underbanked populations and support the economic prosperity of minority communities. Yet, the Manhattan District Attorney aggressively prosecuted Abacus Bank with a 184-count indictment. Ultimately, after a four-month jury trial and 10 million dollars in defensive litigation costs, Abacus Bank, a bank deemed "small enough to jail" as opposed to "too big to fail," remains the only U.S. bank indicted for mortgage fraud related to the 2008 crisis. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance...

The Overlooked Tragedy of the Pandemic: How Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic has Led to an Increase in Anti-Asian Bias and Xenophobia

Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The media is a vital source of information, especially in times of crisis. Since the 2019 novel coronavirus became a worldwide pandemic, it has become a frequent topic of discussion in the media, and its mysterious origin has caused lots of speculation regarding its roots. Historically, scientists have named novel diseases based on the country or region in which it was thought to have originated; however, in 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) publicly discouraged this practice because of the stigma it tended to attach to people and places. Despite this warning and the WHO's deliberate name selection for the 2019 novel coronavirus — "COVID-19" — the media and many public figures, including former United States President Donald Trump, have consistently used stigmatizing language, such as "China virus," associating the virus with China because the first confirmed cases of the virus were discovered in Wuhan, China. Just as the WHO warned, this stigmatizing language has...

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Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Cultural Oppression Disguised as Religious Obligation: A Fatal Misrepresentation to the Advancement of Muslim Women’s Rights in the Context of the So-Called Honor Killings

Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Advocates of women’s rights have faced various struggles throughout the decades in the advancement of women’s rights and emancipation in Muslim-majority countries. Much of the struggle is caused by the long-held misconception that the principal barrier to the advancement of such rights is due to the religion of Islam or, more accurately, the prevailing interpretations of Islam. In fact, historically, Islam has helped to further women’s rights. If that is so, then there must be another reason so as to why Muslim women living in Muslim-majority countries or Muslim communities in the west are often deprived of the same rights that are granted to their western counterparts. The answer lies within the culture itself.

The dangers of misconstruing culture with religion is apparent. For one, mixing up religion with culture does not create an accurate depiction of Islam, which is why Muslim communities in different parts of the world practice “Islam” differently. What often...

Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Patriotism, Rebuffed

Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

During the three decades that Diamond Kimm spent in the United States, he confronted the most powerful judicial and legislative authorities in the country. As a leader in the Korean American community in Los Angeles, Kimm spoke publicly about his political beliefs and criticized U.S. policies overseas and military intervention on the Korean peninsula. Immigration officials sought to deport Kimm on the basis of his suspected communist affiliations and Kimm’s subsequent fight to remain in the country illuminates a significant chapter in the development of constitutional protections for immigrants, as well as the history of Asian Americans in the United States.

Who Really is a Noble?: The Constitutionality of American Samoa’s Matai System

Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Who Really is a Noble?: The Constitutionality of American Samoa’s Matai System

Asian Americans and Affirmative Action—UNC Amicus Brief

Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Asian Americans and Affirmative Action—UNC Amicus Brief

Disarming Jackson's (Re)Loaded Weapon: How Trump v. Hawaii Reincarnated Korematsu and How They Can Be Overruled

Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Disarming Jackson's (Re)Loaded Weapon: How Trump v. Hawaii Reincarnated Korematsu and How They Can Be Overruled

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Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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A Mixed-Race Child's Fate Under the Chinese Exclusion Act: Lawrence Kentwell's Fight for Inclusion in Local Politics and Legal Profession

Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The infamous Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 ostracized persons of Chinese descent and foreclosed the possibility for Chinese persons who were not born in the United States to obtain naturalization. This Article uncovers the story of Lawrence Klindt Kentwell, a Eurasian of English and Chinese descent who spent his formative years in Hawaii. Because of his Chinese blood, he was excluded from local politics in Hawaii and had no chance at entering the legal profession in the United States. The raw racism he experienced in the United States compelled him to identify strongly with his Chinese roots, leading him to leave his adopted home for good.

Review Essay: "What's Going On?"

Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Review Essay: "What's Going On?"

Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Chinese (PRC & ROC) Nationality Laws and Reconceptualizing Asian-American Identity

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Chinese (PRC & ROC) Nationality Laws and Reconceptualizing Asian-American Identity

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Asian American Fraternity Hazing: An Analysis of Community-Level Factors

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Asian American Fraternity Hazing: An Analysis of Community-Level Factors

Re-Building a Native Hawaiian Nation: Base Rolls, Membership, and Land in an Effective Self-Determination Movement

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Re-Building a Native Hawaiian Nation: Base Rolls, Membership, and Land in an Effective Self-Determination Movement

Filipinos on the Bench: Challenges and Solutions for Today and Tomorrow’s Generations

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This article was originally published by the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession inthe IILP Review 2017: The State of Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession.

Hulihia Ke Au: Implications of Hawai‘i Same-Sex Marriage for Policy, Practice, & Culture