Asian American Identities, Relationships, and Post-Migration Legacies

Jessica ChenFeng, PhD, LMFT (she/her), daughter of immigrants from Taiwan, is a systemic therapist, consulting with academic, healthcare and church organizations to improve the well-being of people within their communities. Her work centers around social contextual intersections of race, gender, generation, trauma, and spirituality. She is an associate professor of marriage and family therapy at Fuller Theological Seminary. Lana Kim, PhD, LMFT (she/her), daughter of immigrants from South Korea, is a systemic therapist, supervisor, and educator with a background in medical family therapy. Her clinical and research focus includes contextual issues in teaching and supervision, relational parenting, sociocultural and socio-emotional attunement in couple therapy, and collaborative care practices. She is an associate professor and the program director for the Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy program at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Introduction; Part I: Contextualizing Silence and Invisibility 1. Asian Americans’ Invisibilization and Racialization: Our Transcontextual Journeys 2.Unraveling Asian American Stereotypes: The Model Minority Myth, Honorary Whiteness, and Forever Foreigner 3.Racialized Gender’s Rupturing of Asian American Identities and Relationships Part II: Resistance, Resilience, and Imagined Possibilities 4.Beyond White Caricatures and Portrayals: Asian American Therapists Shifting the Narrative 5.Surviving Racism Across the Generations: Quiet Fortitude to Active Resistance and Collective Healing 6.Therapy as Activism: Transforming Therapy Spaces and Healing Communities Part III: Transforming our Inheritance 7. Constructing Shame Resilience as Asian Americans: Face, Race, and Bicultural Identity 8. Relational Ethics at the Heart of Asian American Family Systems 9.The Next Generation: Evolution of Asian American Identity in the Face of the U.S.’s Racial Justice Movement