Muslim Model Minorities and the Politics of Diasporic Piety

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-214
Author(s):  
Nadia Z. Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Model Minorities

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.

Model Minorities and the Model Minority Myth

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Ooka Pang ◽  
John D. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Model Minority ◽  
Model Minority Myth ◽  
Model Minorities

Model Minorities

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Model Minorities

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.

Violence, Hmong American Visibility, and the Precariousness of Asian Race

PMLA ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 123 (5) ◽  
pp. 1752-1756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louisa Schein ◽  
Ya-Megn Thoj
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Virginia Tech ◽  
Korean American ◽  
American Student ◽  
Asian Race ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Model Minorities ◽  
Asian American Men ◽  
Hmong American

When the murders at Virginia Tech in spring of 2007 began to be processed, by mainstream media and Asian American commentators alike, in tenuously racial terms as the un/intelligible acts of a Korean American student, Seung-hui Cho, some observers of media racialization recalled the spectacularizations of Chai Soua Vang, the Hmong hunter who killed six white hunters in the woods of Wisconsin in 2004. Were these events likely to be discursively linked, and if so what effect would they produce? Would they destabilize tropes of Asian American men as studious, reserved, effeminate model minorities? Would we see the rise, or the return, of a racial menace in the form of gun-toting, ruthless, killer Asian males, and what would be the fallout? What difference would it make to discursive homogenization that one of the killers was Hmong, a member of a group that has articulated awkwardly if at all with prevailing images of Asian Americans?

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

Asian American Community Participation and Religion: Civic Model Minorities?

2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Howard Ecklund ◽  
Jerry Z. Park
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Model Minorities
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