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Title: Excerpts from The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism
Citation Type: Book, Section
Publication Year: 2012
ISBN: 9781003071709
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003071709-22
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Abstract: Numerous assimilation analysts have argued that Asian American groups are on their way to full integration into the “core society,” by which they mean white middle-class society. While some Asian Americans today trace family histories back to nineteenth-century immigrants, most have a more recent immigration background. Today whites and others still apply numerous elements of an old anti-Asian framing to Asian Americans. For example, one savvy higher education journalist recently noted that numerous articles in college newspapers have used Asian Americans as the point of humor, but their portrayals usually feed the “model minority” myth. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants and their children—mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino—suffered extremely blatant and institutionalized racism. Assessing the adaptation of Asian immigrants and their children, Nazli Kibria distinguishes between an “ethnic American” model and a “racial minority” model of assimilation.
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Authors: Chou, Rosalind S.; Feagin, Joe R.
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Pages: 224-242
Volume Title: Inequality in the United States: A Reader
Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1st
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Race and Ethnicity
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