Scholars of minority political
participation have shown significant interest in unraveling the complex but crucial role of
group-basedresources. Although there is an emerging scholarship on Latinos, much of the work on group consciousness, group identity, and ethnic organizations is based on research on Black Americans. Increasing diversity in the United States brings necessary attention to expanding the model to the politics and
participation of other non-White, multiethnic, and immigrant majority communities. Using a new and unique dataset designed to tap the
political opinion and behavior of Asian Americans, the authors find that the usefulness of group-based resources for this rapidly expanding and heterogeneous population is contingent on the specific form of the resources and the mode of political participation