I also would have liked to see money go to APIASF, especially since a lot of other GMS grantees were given money, as you pointed out.  It would be interesting to see the rationalization for why these particular funds were chosen, but I think it does little for your point to point out the Appalachian LEF is funded. I think the fact that youth in Appalachia are likely to be White masks the fact that it is one of the poorest and underdeveloped regions in America, which I believe is the same problem APIAs face in the context of achievement in high education.  It'd be easy to say APIAs are overrepresented in higher ed without pointing out that many specific API ethnic groups are underrepresented and don't receive the same amount of resources as other groups. 

Thanks for your comment, Francis. That's exactly my point... they even remembered low-income Whites, but they didn't remember the diversity of AAPIs and barriers to educational access members of our community experience!

I was looking at that too and I agree with you. I wondered if model minority myth dosage affected the lack of inclusion of AAPIs in education funds. but what about this:

$100,000 to the Central Asia Institute

The Central Asia Institute promotes and supports community-based education and literacy, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.  The Institute’s co-founder, Greg Mortenson, was also a Nobel Peace Prize nominee this year, whose book, Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time, recounts his attempt to successfully establish dozens of schools and promote girls’ education in rural Afghanistan and Pakistan. "

For some people, they may just think Asian (and maybe not Asian American and indicate South Asia was represented here if they were trying to do the 'five basic food groups' of racial groups (well not racialized in U.S. persay). It's a serious problem and I'm glad you pointed it out. =)

Yup, that's true - Central Asia Institute did get $100k, but what triggers me here is that it's an organization co-founded by Greg Mortenson - a white man. APIA Scholarship Fund, like UNCF and others were founded by and for the target populations.

The other racialization this plays into is that "Asians are foreigners" but again I point out... a huge majority of Asian Americans voted for Obama.

I think such big percent for Obama from representatives of Asians, it is law, centuries presidents represented only ancient European clans or descendants of the first immigrants, and here there is first applicant for armchair which represents in the ethnic plan other continent, at subconscious level Obama was much closer to Asians than John McCain

Maria

Russia, Sochi

thank you very much!

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