We All Eat Rice...? Poi, Potatoes, and Mac and Cheese!: Deconstructing Ethnicity for Cultural Specificity

We All Eat Rice...? Poi, Potatoes, and Mac and Cheese!: Deconstructing Ethnicity for Cultural Specificity

CHAIR: TASHIMA, Nathaniel (LTG Assoc)

PANELISTS: CRAIN, Cathleen, TASHIMA, Nathaniel, ISHIHARA-BRITO, Reiko, and DAO, Lillie (LTG Assoc) Complexities of Specificity and Inclusiveness in Focusing on Health and Human Services for Asian American and Pacific Islanders ISHIHARA-BRITO, Reiko, CRAIN, Cathleen, TASHIMA, Nathaniel, and DAO, Lillie (LTG Assoc) The Childhood Obesity Epidemic in the US - Says Who?: Asian American and Pacific Islander Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Body Image and Relevant Factors DAO, Lillie, TASHIMA, Nathaniel, CRAIN, Cathleen, and ISHIHARA-BRITO, Reiko (LTG Assoc) Over Two Million of the United States’ “Model Minority” Living in Poverty: Health Implications and Dispelling Myths

DISCUSSANT: CRAIN, Cathleen (LTG Assoc) TASHIMA, Nathaniel (LTG Assoc) We All Eat Rice...? Poi, Potatoes, and Mac and Cheese!: Deconstructing Ethnicity for Cultural Specificity. 

Health disparities in the Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) populations are increasingly garnering attention, particularly a high prevalence of obesity-related chronic illnesses among some AAPI groups. In this panel, we present some of the environmental, ecological, cultural, social and historical dimensions of AAPI health and childhood obesity to contextualize the disparate situations. With the goal of improving culturally competent health and human services for AAPI peoples, we will highlight the complexities in assessing and understanding the causes and practices that lead to children and adolescents becoming overweight and obese.

 

Session took place in Albuquerque, NM at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2014.