Hello World! I'm currently an undergraduate student at Rice University and an editor for the class Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities as well as the Human Development in Local and Global Communities class. I will do my best to boldly add onto the wealth of knowledge Wikipedia contains, and I look forward to the sheer amount of possibilities for where to help Wikipedia!
Interests
My interests are incredibly varied, but some possible topics of interest include analysis of traditional literature, US domestic policy, critical gender/race/orientation/class literature, representation of minorities in media and in positions of power, Roman food and culture, amongst other random interests. I am also a record holder amongst some of my classmates/peers at the Wiki Game, and have been diving down Wikipedia rabbit holes for years.
This user is a participant in WikiProject Ethnic Groups, a WikiProject which aims to improve the encyclopaedic coverage of articles relating to ethnic groups, nationalities, and other cultural identities. Please feel free to help out.
I am working on this in my sandbox. User:Wuchrist/sandbox Please check it out and let me know if there is anything we can discuss! I am worried that my contribution sounds like a term paper, so if there are any tips you could give me for making my prose more encyclopedic rather than argumentative, I would be incredibly appreciative.
Proposal idea:
I would discuss how homophobia in the Western world is very different and experiences of coming out and stigma are different between primarily white communities. We often hear stores of white children being able to come out to a lot of liberal leaning parents and find acceptance in their community. I would like to add on to the really short section under the parent article on the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
The current article on Homophobia in ethnic minority communities is flagged as needing cleanup since it reads too much like a term paper. That’s an issue that I would be concerned about, since the topic still is relatively unexplored. My edit would be to add on to several sections.
Sources:
Gopinath, Gayatri. Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005)
Muñoz, José Esteban. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 74.
Eng, David L. The Feeling of Kinship:Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010)
Liu, Petrus. Queer Marxism in Two Chinas (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015)
Greene, Beverly. “African American Lesbians and Bisexual Women in Feminist-Psychodynamic Psychotherapies: Surviving and Thriving between a Rock and a Hard Place,” in Psychotherapy with African-American Women: Innovations in Psychodynamic Perspectives and Practices, ed. Leslie C. Jackson and Beverly Greene (New York: Guilford Press, 2000)
Manalansan, Martin, IV. Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003)
Rofel, Lisa. Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007)
Eng, David L. Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001)
Han, Shinhee. “Gay identity disclosure to parents by Asian American gay men,” PhD diss., New York University School of Social Work, 2001
Eng, David L. “Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies.” Social Text, no. 52/53 (1997): 31-52.
Proposals
Interest area 1: Racial Mental Health Inequality
Proposal idea:
I would discuss how mental health treatment and stigma can affect racial minorities from going out to seek health, as well as how sometimes mental health professionals overlook the aspect of race as a reason for why people experience mental health issues. I also want to explore how race can affect self-perception and how that translates outwardly, specifically how it relates to Asian Americans.
The parent article would be “Mental Health Inequality”, and I would propose to expand upon the current section that’s under the parent article about racial disparities. It’s a very small section despite a lot of literature discussing different racial predicaments affecting peoples’ mental health lives.
Sources:
Leary, Kimberlyn. “Race as an Adaptive Challenge: Working with Diversity in the Clinical Consulting Room.” Psychoanalytic Psychology 29, no. 3 (2012)
Holmes, Dorothy E. “The Wrecking Effects of Race and Social Class on Self and Success,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly 75 (2006)
Sue, Stanley, and Derald W. Sue. “Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health,” Amerasia Journal 1, no. 2
White, Kathleen Pogue. “Surviving Hating and Being Hated: Some Personal Thoughts about Racism from a Psychoanalytic Perspective,” Contemporary Psychoanalysis 38 (2002)
Eng, David L, and Han Shinhee. Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans. Durham: London: Duke University Press, 2019.
Leary, Kimberlyn. “Race, Self-Disclosure, and ‘Forbidden Talk’: Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Clinical Practice.” Psychoanalytic Quarterly 66 (1997)
Spencer, M., Chen, J., Gee, G., Fabian, C., Takeuchi, D. “Discrimination and Mental Health-Related Service Use in a National Study of Asian Americans.” American Journal of Public Health (2010)
Brown, E. R., Ojeda, V. D., Wyn, R., & Levan, R. (2000) Racial and ethnic disparities in access to health insurance and health care, Los Angeles, CA. UCLA Center for Health Policy and Research and The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Brown, T. R., Huang, K., Harris, D. E., & Stein, K. M. (1973) In S. Sue & N. Wagner (Eds.), Asian-American: Psychological perspectives (pp. 212–231)., Palo Alto, CA. Science and Behavior Books.
Cheung, F. K (1989, May) Culture and mental health care for Asian Americans in the United States. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco.
Kuo, W. H. Prevalence of depression among Asian Americans. 172Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. (1984)
Interest area 2: Asian American Economic Status
Proposal idea:
I would discuss the interaction on how the Model Minority Myth shows that while some Asian Americans/Asian immigrants can succeed immensely due to how the INA/Hart Cellar Act of 1965 selected for already-educated and privileged Asian immigrants after the era of exclusion, it ignores the economic reality for other Asian people. Since people assume homogeneity of Asian American people, they don’t understand how differences between East and Southeast Asians are also intertwined with economic questions and how different waves of immigration created different groups with very distinct social locations.
The parent article would be Asian Americans, and I propose an expansion to the parent article since there is no stub for Asian American class at all so my options are either expansion of parent article or creation of a whole new article. Just like there is a section under the “African Americans” page about Economic Status, I would propose a similar one under the “Asian Americans” page.
Sources:
Gotanda, Neil. “Citizenship Nullification: The Impossibility of Asian American Politics,” in Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects, ed. Gordon H. Chang (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002)
Wu, Ellen. The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014)
Roediger, David R. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. New York: Verso, 1991.
Lee, Robert G. “The Cold War Origins of the Model Minority.” In Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture, 145–79. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1999.
