September 23, 2019. Ravi Chandra, M.D., D.F.A.P.A., psychiatrist and writer in San Francisco, discusses Asian American/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander boy’s and men’s mental health for SF Love Dojo. For more information:
SF Love Dojo: https://www.sflovedojo.org
Ravi Chandra: https://ravichandramd.com
1. A snapshot of behavioral health issues for Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Boys and Men (2016) — 9 pages
https://store.samhsa.gov/system/files/sma16-4959.pdf
2. Advancing best practices in behavioral health for AANHPI Boys and Men (2017) — 10 pages
https://store.samhsa.gov/system/files/sma17-5032.pdf
3. Asian American Men in Romantic Dating Markets (2018) — 5 pages
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1536504218812869
Additional Readings
Microagressions handout
https://sph.umn.edu/site/docs/hewg/microaggressions.pdf
New York Times, Modern Love article, “When a Dating Dare Leads to Months of Soul Searching”
New Yorker article about the Eng/Han book Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation “The Stories We Tell, and Don’t Tell, About Asian-American Lives”
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-stories-we-tell-and-dont-tell-about-asian-american-lives
Link to Asian American literature recommendations by Viet Thanh Nguyen:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1123990704877965312.html
Link to a parallel 2011 article on Asian American women:
https://www.integration.samhsa.gov/pbhci-learning-community/National_Latino_and_Asian-American_Study.pdf
Ravi Chandra’s article on gender relations in the Asian American community:
https://medium.com/@going2peace/the-three-body-problem-in-asian-american-romance-703d0968a53c
Asian Men and Black Women underrepresented in magazines
https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2015/study-finds-asian-men,-black-women-underrepresented-in-magazines123.php
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