AAPI Nexus: Special Issue on Wealth Inequality and Asian American Pacific Islanders 13:1 & 2 (2015)

This special issue of the Asian American Pacific Islander Nexus Journal focuses on wealth— the accumulation of all your assets, both physical and financial investments. In particular, why wealth is what really matters and is as important as income in better understanding economic inequality.

It is also the first publication devoted entirely to an in-depth examination of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs), Native Hawaiians, and wealth. While previous work may have included a chapter on the issue (e.g., see Ong and Patraporn, 2006), this special journal issue gives voice to the highly diverse and complex AAPI population’s ideals, concerns, and priorities in relation to wealth inequality and financial security and moves beyond the simplistic and misleading “model minority” stereotype.

Editors: C. Aujean Lee, Lisa Hasegawa, Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, and Paul M. Ong

Authors: Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, Sora Park Tanjasiri, Joyce Pisnanont, Robert T. Teranishi, Daphne Kwok, and more.

Read the Press Release on Special Issue on Wealth Inequality and Asian American Pacific Islanders

Read the Editors’ Note: Asian American and Pacific Islander Wealth Inequality and Developing Paths to Financial Security

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