Abstract No court case in recent history has propelled Asian Americans into the political sphere like Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, and no issue has galvanized them like affirmative action. Asian Americans have taken center stage in the latest battle over affirmative action, yet their voices have been muted in favor of narratives that paint them as victims of affirmative action who ardently oppose the policy. Bridging theory and research on immigration, stereotypes, and boundaries, I provide a holistic portrait of SFFA v. Harvard and focus on Asian Americans' role in it. Immigration has remade Asian Americans from “unassimilable to exceptional,” and wedged them between underrepresented minorities who stand to gain most from the policy and the advantaged majority who stands to lose most because of it. Presumed competent and morally deserving, Asian Americans subscribe to the stereotype, and wield it to their advantage. Competence, moral worth, and respectability politics, however, are no safeguards against racism and xenophobia. As fears of the coronavirus arrested the United States, so too has the rise in anti-Asian hate.

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亚裔美国人、平权行动与反亚裔仇恨的上升

摘要 在近代历史上，没有任何法庭案件像学生公平录取诉哈佛那样将亚裔美国人推入政治领域，也没有任何问题像平权行动那样激励他们。亚裔美国人在最近一场关于平权行动的斗争中占据了中心位置，但他们的声音一直被忽视，支持将他们描绘成积极反对该政策的平权行动受害者的叙述。我将关于移民、刻板印象和界限的理论和研究联系起来，提供 SFFA 诉哈佛案的整体画像，并关注亚裔美国人在其中的作用。移民已将亚裔美国人从“无法同化为特殊”，并将他们夹在代表性不足的少数族裔之间，这些少数族裔将从该政策中获益最多，而优势多数则将因此而遭受最大损失。亚裔美国人被认为是有能力和道德上应得的，他们赞同这种刻板印象，并利用它为自己谋取利益。然而，能力、道德价值和受人尊敬的政治并不能防止种族主义和仇外心理。随着对冠状病毒的恐惧席卷了美国，反亚裔的仇恨也在上升。