A chance to explore the elements influencing Asian Americans' emotional reactions to a potentially dangerous political environment arises from the frequency of anti-Asian and anti-immigrant rhetoric throughout the 2016 election season.
<h3>What are the threats in the age of trump to Asian Americans?</h3>
We show that Asian Americans exhibit dread on par with other minority groups but expressing less anger when comparing interracial trends in emotional expressions and political activity in the 2016 Collaborative Multi-racial Post-election Survey (CMPS). In a notable deviation from academic predictions, we find that among Asian Americans, stated dread is strongly positively correlated with engagement. Asian Americans' political activity in times of threat can be better understood because of this mobilizing effect of fear that sets them apart from other racial groupings. We address the reasons why and ways in which fear may influence Asian American engagement, acting as a mediator between race and action.
