Internalized model minority myth among Asian Americans: Links to anti-Black attitudes and opposition to affirmative action.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Yi ◽  
Nathan R. Todd
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Model Minority Myth

Against the Odds

The Race Card ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 79-108
Author(s):  
Tara Fickle
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Economic Mobility ◽  
Model Minority Myth ◽  
Games Of Chance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Narrative Function ◽  
The Way

This chapter uses games of chance to illustrate the overlooked kinship between the appeal that hardworking Asian Americans held for white sociologists and the appeal that gambling held for Asian Americans. In other words, the chapter emphasizes again the formal symmetry between the way both parties were using gambling to try to rationalize larger paradoxes in cultural theories of race and economic mobility by reframing immigration and social mobility as a risk-taking opportunity. Gambling served an ideational narrative function that is made clear through its representations in both literary and journalistic fictions of the model minority. The model minority myth was, from that perspective, essentially a racialized version of the gambling narrative, wherein Asian Americans modeled a new way of representing and explaining the relationship between past and future, merit and heredity.

Asian Americans, Disability, and the Model Minority Myth

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoonmee Chang
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Model Minority Myth

Chapter 14 engages a sustained critique of the ableist aspects of Asian American studies. Such ableism, as Chang maintains, obscures through minoritized exceptionalism the possibility of a disabled Asian American personhood, rendering such bodies as “impossible subjects.”

The Yellow Plague and Romantic Anticapitalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-73
Author(s):  
Iyko Day
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Model Minority Myth ◽  
Brown Bodies

COVID-19 is a great revealer, laying bare the structures of racial disposability that have sacrificed people, from migrant detainees to meat packers. We are also witness to the rise of anti-Asian violence. Brutal attacks against Asian Americans have exposed the fraudulence of the model minority myth and the assimilationist paradigm that legitimizes state violence against Black and Brown bodies.

Racial Socialization and Multicultural Education of Asian Families in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-67
Author(s):  
Peggy A. Kong ◽  
Xinwei Zhang ◽  
Anu Sachdev ◽  
Nino Dzotsenidze ◽  
Xiaoran Yu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Racial Socialization ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Model Minority Myth

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a dramatic surge in anti-Asian racism in the United States. Asians have been blamed for the pandemic. Multicultural education improves cross-cultural understanding and reduces discrimination. Parental racial socialization is an important facet of multicultural education as parents convey racial and ethnic messages to their children. Yet, little research has documented parental racial socialization in Asian families. To address this gap, the authors interviewed 19 Asians and Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. This chapter shows that discrimination experiences start at an early age and have a lasting impact. Discrimination of Asians is related to the perpetual foreigner stereotype and the model minority myth. These impede how Asians understand their racial discrimination experiences and how families discuss race and ethnicity. All parents in the study expressed how critical parental racial socialization was during the COVID-19 pandemic and suggest that schools are essential to supporting multicultural education at home.

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