Too Asian? The model minority stereotype in a Canadian context.

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-232
Author(s):  
Jessica K. Padgett ◽  
Evelina Lou ◽  
Richard N. Lalonde ◽  
Joni Y. Sasaki
Keyword(s):  
Model Minority ◽  
Model Minority Stereotype ◽  
Canadian Context

scholarly journals Reassessing Japanese American Collective Memory Through Gene Oishi’s Internment Narratives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolangelo Becce
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
World War ◽  
True Self ◽  
Direct Response ◽  
Model Minority Stereotype ◽  
Second World

Seven decades after Japanese Americans were interned during the Second World War, former journalist and internment survivor Gene Oishi published Fox Drum Bebop (2014). The protagonist, Hiroshi, had been introduced in Oishi’s previous memoir, In Search of Hiroshi (1988), as “quasi-fictional” and “neither American nor Japanese, but simply me”. Yet, in the same memoir, Oishi had also described his inability to write about ‘Hiroshi’, thus settling on ‘Gene’ as a main character and waiting 28 more years before publishing a book about his true self. A comparison between the two books highlights that In Search of Hiroshi was written as an attempt at telling a story that would implicitly support the ‘model minority’ myth by offering an account of the internment experience as a direct response to the sociopolitical constraints related to the request by Japanese Americans for redress from the U.S. government. On the other hand, the more recent Fox Drum Bebop represents a fictional retelling of Oishi’s memoir which reveals the limits of the collective memory of the internment as developed during the redress years by openly defying the ‘model minority’ stereotype while at the same time once more denouncing the injustices suffered by the Japanese American community during the war. This essay focuses on Oishi’s double narrative as a reassessment of the collective memory of the internment experience and of its lasting effects on Japanese Americans.

Overcoming constraints of the model minority stereotype to advance Asian American health.

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 611-626
Author(s):  
Jacqueline H. J. Kim ◽  
Qian Lu ◽  
Annette L. Stanton
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Model Minority Stereotype ◽  
Asian American Health

The Intersection of the Asian American Model Minority Myth and Sports

2015 ◽  
pp. 63-89
Author(s):  
Teresa A. Mok ◽  
David W. Chih
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Model Minority Myth ◽  
Model Minority Stereotype ◽  
American Model ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Media ◽  
American Society

While the model minority stereotype depicts Asian Americans as having somehow “made it” in American society, rarely does the discourse involve Asian American athletes. The purpose of this chapter is to delineate how race and the model minority myth were an integral part of the media coverage and affected perceptions of the phenomenon known colloquially as “Linsanity,” which charted the unprecedented rise of Jeremy Lin. In 2012, Jeremy Lin became one of the most famous players in the NBA. By exploring the popular press coverage of this event, fueled by the Internet and social media, the intersection of the model minority myth and athletics are investigated. Through a combination of media critique and analysis, narrative, psychological literature, and coverage of other Asian and Asian American athletes, the authors illustrate how racism was a prominent factor and a significant part of the everyday discourse that permeated the coverage of Jeremy Lin.

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