Publications
Racism, Trauma, and Healing in Asian American Communities
Godon-Decoteau, D., Frye, A. A., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2024). Internalized racism and Asian American mental health. Asian American Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000347
Suyemoto, K. L. & Liu, C. (2018). Asian American students in Asian American Studies: Experiences of racism-related stress and relation to depressive and anxious symptoms. Journal of Asian American Studies, 21, 301-326. DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2018.0016
Liu, C. M., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2016). The effects of racism-related stress on Asian Americans: Anxiety and depression among different generational statuses. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 7(2), 137–146. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000046
Lin, N. J. & Suyemoto, K. L. (2016). “So you, my children, can have a better life”: A Cambodian American perspective on the phenomenology of intergenerational communication about trauma. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2015.1133748
Tawa, J., Suyemoto, K. L. & Roemer, L. (2012). Implications of perceived interpersonal and structural racism for Asian Americans’ self-esteem. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 34(4), 349–358. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2012.693425
Lin, N. J., Suyemoto, K. L., Kiang, P. N. (2009). Education as catalyst for intergenerational refugee family communication about war and trauma. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 30(4), 195–207. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525740108329234
Resistance to Racism, Accompliceship, and Anti-Racist Pedagogy
Suyemoto, K. L., Abdullah, T., Godon-Decoteau, D., Tahirkheli, N. N., Arbid, N., & Frye, A. A. (2022). Development of the Resistance and Empowerment Against Racism (REAR) Scale. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 28(1), 58–71. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000353
Suyemoto, K. L., & Hochman, A. L. (2021). “Taking the empathy to an activist state”: Ally development as continuous cycles of critical understanding and action. Research in Human Development, 18(1-2), 105–148. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427609.2021.1928453
Hochman, A. L., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2020). Evaluating and dismantling an intervention aimed at increasing White people’s knowledge and understanding of racial justice issues. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 90(6), 733–750. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000506
Kim, G.S., Kahn, V .D., Tawa, J., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2017). Toward a ripple effect: Psychologists collaborate in social justice education at a high school. Journal for Social Action in Counseling & Psychology, 9(2), 112–131. https://doi.org/10.33043/JSACP.9.2.112-131
Suyemoto, K. L., Day, S. C., & Schwartz, S. (2015). Exploring effects of social justice youth programming on racial and ethnic identities and activism for Asian American youth. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 6(2), 125–135. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037789
Suyemoto, K. L., Kim, G. S., Tanabe, M., Tawa, J., & Day, S. C. (2009). Challenging the model minority myth: Engaging Asian American students in research on Asian American college student experiences. In n S. D. Museus (Ed.) New Directions in Institutional Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/ir.295
Suyemoto, K. L., Tawa, J., Kim, G. S., Day, S. C., Lambe, S. A., Nguyen, P. T. & AhnAllen, J. M. (2009). Integrating disciplines for transformative education in health services. In Zhan, L., & National League for Nursing. (2009). Asian American voices : engaging, empowering, enabling.
Resistance to Racism, Accompliceship, and Anti-Racist Pedagogy
Suyemoto, K. L., Curley, M., & Mukkamala, S. (2020). What Do We Mean by “Ethnicity” and “Race”? A Consensual Qualitative Research Investigation of Colloquial Understandings. Genealogy, 4(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4030081
Mukkamala, S., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2018). Racialized sexism/sexualized racism: A multimethod study of intersectional experiences of discrimination for Asian American women. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 9(1), 32–46. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000104
Tawa, J., Suyemoto, K., Tauriac, J. J. (2016). Fostering inter-minority race-relations: An intervention with Black and Asian Students at an urban university. Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity, 16.
Day, S. C., Godon-Decoteau, D., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2015). Effects of becoming a mother on the development of ethnic and racial identities in Korean transnationally and transracially adopted women. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 6(4), 359–370. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000028
Tawa, J., Negrón, R., Suyemoto, K. L., & Carter, A. S. (2015). The effect of resource competition on Blacks’ and Asians’ social distance using a virtual world methodology. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 18(6), 761–777. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430214561694
AhnAllen, J. M., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2011). Influence of interracial dating on racial and/or ethnic identities of Asian American women and white European American men. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 2(1), 61–75. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023325
Kim, G. S., Suyemoto, K. L. & Turner, C. B. (2010). Sense of belonging, sense of exclusion, and racial and ethnic identities in Korean transracial adoptees.
Kim, G. S., Suyemoto, K. L., & Turner, C. B. (2010). Sense of belonging, sense of exclusion, and racial and ethnic identities in Korean transracial adoptees. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 16(4), 598. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021430
Tawa, J., & Suyemoto, K. L. (2010). The influence of race and power on self-construal in bicultural Asian Americans. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 1(4), 275–289. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021388