On Becoming Asian American Christian Ethicists

Abstract

This chapter clarifies the meaning of “Asian American” in Asian American Christian ethics by harkening back to the political activist, transnational, and coalitional roots of the Asian American movement of the 1960s–1970s. While affirming the relationship between the authors’ social location and the work they produce, they first narrate how they—a mixed race Filipina American and a second-generation Taiwanese American—first came to identify as Asian American and do work in Asian American Christian ethics. In sharing about their professional development, they also name the formative influences upon them, particularly from Asian and Asian American women. They conclude with their hopes for future directions of work in Asian American Christian ethics.