This roundtable will examine current research of Asian American youth and propose new trajectories for the field of Asian American Studies. Since the 1999 special issue on “Second generation Asian Americans’ ethnic identity” in Amerasia Journal there has been a burgeoning growth of studies of Asian American youth. A critical examination of youth has long been crucial to understanding broader intersecting forces of race, class, gender, sexuality, dis/ability, politics, and citizenship. This roundtable brings together leaders and new emerging scholars who are pushing the field new directions. The participants will interrogate theoretical and pedagogical approaches to examining Asian American youth in diverse cultural and political practices and settings including import car culture, Asian Baby Girl subculture, undocumented Asian immigrant youth resistance, Asian American studies courses, Southeast Asian refugee identities and collectivity, community based feminist youth spaces, and high school student affinity groups. Participants will examine how forces of US settler colonialism, US militarism, neoliberal multiculturalism, and anti-Asian violence mediate Asian American youth agency, resistance, and meaning making. To encourage discussion among panelists and audience members, the panelists will briefly describe their research using two key terms before we turn to a wider dialogue.