Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth.

1996 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Y. Ford ◽  
Stacey J. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Model Minority Stereotype ◽  
Asian American Youth

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.

scholarly journals Researching From Buried Experiences: Collaborative Inquiry With Asian American Youth

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Campano ◽  
Lan Ngo ◽  
Grace Player
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Collaborative Inquiry ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Practitioner Research ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Asian American Youth ◽  
Out Of School

This article reports on an out-of-school practitioner researcher study, the Community Researchers Project, involving predominately Indonesian youth who were members of a Catholic parish in a diverse multilingual neighborhood of our city. The lives and learning of many of the youth in the Indonesian immigrant community were, to a large extent, invisible in the research literature or homogenized through broader generalizations regarding Asian Americans, such as the myth of the "model minority." Through analysis of several representative student inquiries, we argue that practitioner research can be an effective methodological vehicle for unearthing "buried" personal and collective histories that impact students.

“The Model Man:” Shifting Perceptions of Asian American Masculinity and the Renegotiation of a Racial Hierarchy of Desire

2021 ◽  
pp. 1097184X2110435
Author(s):  
Kelly H Chong ◽  
Nadia Y Kim
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
White Women ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
The United States ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
Model Minority Stereotype ◽  
Sexual Racism ◽  
Asian American Men ◽  
Depth Interviews

Although Asian-descent men in the United States have been subjected to negative race-gender stereotyping and sexual racism, evidence suggests that mainstream perceptions and Asian American men’s self-definitions are in flux. Drawing on in-depth interviews of U.S.-born and -raised, middle-class, heterosexual Asian American men, supplemented by popular media textual analysis, we examine how these men are drawing upon a new form of alternative Asian American masculinity— one that we call “The Model Man”—in order to renegotiate their position within the present hierarchy of romantic preference. “The Model Man,” a hybrid masculinity construction that combines the elements of White hegemonic masculinity and model minority-based “Asian” masculinity, is co-opted and deployed by men as sexual/romantic capital—especially in relation to White women—because it enables the men to present themselves as desirable romantic partners. Although this masculinity strategy contains possibilities for further straitjacketing Asian American men via the model minority stereotype—and for re-inscribing heteronormativity and patriarchy/heterosexism—it may possess an unexpectedly subversive potential in allowing the men to contest their masculinity status and even remap hegemonic American manhood.

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