Final SAPSA Writeup - Group 2D

Jiaqi Huang

Savannah Keyse

Thao-Nhi Vu

ASA 2

SAPSA - Final Writeup 

Internalized Racism

***Please press the Closed Caption (CC) button on the video to understand some of the hard to hear interviews.***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y6ds9t2Q98&feature=youtu.be 

This SAPSA was created to bring awareness to the use of internalized racism, or interracial racism, between Asian American communities and begins to identify the source of these biasses and discrimination. The intended audience for this SAPSA includes college aged people, both Asian American and not, as well as attempting to reach older generations of Asian Americans; we believe, however, that the message of acceptance and solidarity will be best understood by the college aged viewers. We trust that this video will bring to light an issue that is prevalent among the older generations of Asian Americans that is not normally discussed just understood, interracial racism. When a problem such as this has the ability to shape a person's opinion of another person, we affirm it is only fair to expose this practice and both legitimize it and start to try and mitigate its power.

There were some challenges with creating this SAPSA video including finding willing interviewees to express the notions of interracial racism they know are present but do not feel extremely comfortable sharing them aloud. Once we found sufficient interviews we used survey responses to form a more concrete profile of opinions that Asian Americans of college age, and mostly second generation, have about the subject. This process was timely but helped to decrease the challenges we could have faced. If there was more time, our group would have loved to get the opinion of an older generation Asian American or a scholar in Asian American studies to weigh in on the topic but as the video stands now we believe it does a great job at gauging the viewpoints of the older generations. The future of this SAPSA is to keep the conversation going around the unspoken custom of interracial racism and still pushing for a more equitable solidarity between groups of Asian Americans that have had conflicted histories.