scholarly journals Mexicans as Model Minorities in the New Latino Diaspora

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanton Wortham ◽  
Katherine Mortimer ◽  
Elaine Allard
Keyword(s):  
New Latino Diaspora ◽  
Model Minorities

The past is prologue

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cassels Johnson ◽  
Crissa Stephens ◽  
Stephanie Gugliemo Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
New Latino Diaspora ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
The U.S

Abstract This article examines reactions to the changing linguistic ecology in the U.S. state of Iowa, which is experiencing a demographic phenomenon often referred to as the New Latino Diaspora (NLD) (Hamann et al., 2002). We first examine the historical processes and social structures that link current language policy initiatives within Iowa to local and national nativism. We then analyze public policies and texts to reveal how language ideologies circulate across diverse texts and contexts, forming discourses that shape the experiences of Latin@s in Iowa.

Imperatives of Asian American Citizenship

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen D. Wu
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
Asian Populations ◽  
Model Minorities ◽  
Asian American Identity ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Cold War

This introductory chapter describes the racial order in twentieth-century America—its evolution, consequences, and significance. Japanese and Chinese Americans, the largest ethnic Asian populations, and the two that figured most prominently in the public eye between the 1940s and 1960s, are central to this investigation. Their trajectories unfold separately in order to illuminate their distinct histories. Yet Japanese and Chinese Americans also appear in tandem to emphasize the many parallels that account for their concurrent emergence as model minorities. As a mix of cultural, social, and political history, the chapter highlights how the discursive and the material mattered for Japanese American, Chinese American, and ultimately Asian American identity formation from World War II through the “Cold War civil rights” years.

Transcending the Challenge at the Library

2019 ◽  
pp. 186-204
Author(s):  
Denise Dávila ◽  
Yunying Xu
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
New Latino Diaspora ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Social Narratives ◽  
American Society ◽  
Families First ◽  
The U.S

One of the greatest challenges immigrant families face in local communities is the harmful quality of mainstream deficit perspectives about immigration. This chapter focuses on a group of Latinx immigrant families' first experiences with local public libraries' education services within the New Latino Diaspora of the U.S. Southeast, which has been the migratory destination of many immigrant families in the last two decades. It discusses a study that interrogates the efficacy of two acclaimed literacy development programs, Every Child Ready to Read and Prime Time Preschool. These programs were facilitated by public libraries in the state of Georgia and attended by Latinx immigrant families with young children. The study findings illustrate how the families' engagement in the programs disrupted injurious social narratives that privilege whiteness and inhibit the recognition of Latinx immigrants as members of local U.S. communities and mainstream American society.

Interactions with Asians in Higher Education: Beyond Multicultural Myths

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Festus E. Obiakor
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Culturally And Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Model Minorities ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Education Today

AbstractOne of the critical issues in education today is how to help all students to maximize their fullest potential. Achieving this goal seems to be difficult for many people who come from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds. At all levels, they endure direct and indirect disenfranchisements, disadvantages, and disillusionments, especially if they learn differently, are racially different, demonstrate different behavioral patterns, have different personal idiosyncrasies, or come from different countries. Despite these apparent impediments, Asians are viewed by many as “model” minorities when compared to African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. This view has continued to affect how Asians view themselves and how the society as a whole views them. Coming originally from Nigeria to the United States, I have had myriad interactions with Asians as student, professor, scholar, leader, and professional. In this article, I share my experiences with Asians and how these experiences have exposed multicultural realities and myths.

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