A Critical Review of the Model Minority Myth in Selected Literature on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 469-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
OiYan Poon ◽  
Dian Squire ◽  
Corinne Kodama ◽  
Ajani Byrd ◽  
Jason Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Pacific Islanders ◽  
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.

Asians and the Myth of the Model Minority in Higher Education

2016 ◽  
pp. 447-468
Author(s):  
Ronn Johnson ◽  
Ji Youn Cindy Kim ◽  
Jojo Yanki Lee
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Help Seeking Behavior ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Seeking Behavior

When compared with African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans, Asian are often attributed more positive attributions from the dominant culture. The developed stereotype, Myth of the Model Minority (MMM), suggests Asian Americans achieve a higher degree of success than the general population. Under the internalized assumption of being psychologically trouble free, the MMM stereotype contributes to Asians being less inclined to proactively engage in help seeking behavior despite the presence of severe mental health concerns. Psychocultural examples relating to Asian Americans (e.g., Virginia Tech Shooter case) are reviewed to form a clinical and forensic psychological framework that offers a challenge as to why the MMM is problematic in higher education. The myths related to MMM and the experiences—positive or negative—of MMM are analyzed to encourage subsequent empirically-based applications for addressing MMM as well as serving as a caveat against using monocausal explanations or other thumbnail assessments of Asian American behavior in higher education.

scholarly journals "Too White": Model Minority counter-stories in Canadian institute of higher education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Jeong Han
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Model Minority Myth ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
The North ◽  
Canadian Institute ◽  
Asian Identity

The Model Minority Myth (MMM) is a discursive trait of Asianness in the North American context. It defines East Asian identity as a hardworking and a resilient group despite experiencing discrimination. Marginality in a positive stereotype seems like an oxymoron, however when the MMM is the only representation of the Asian community, it robs individuality of Asians who are excluded from this representation. Historically, the monolithic representation of the Asian diaspora with the MMM was used as a hegemonic tool to oppress racialized groups, including other Asians to legitimize whiteness. In this MRP, narratives of three participants provided counter stories to erode monolithic stories of Asians. Furthermore, it provided the discursive space to have conversations about Asianness with the participants. Keywords : model minority, Asianness, race, gender, narrative approach, counter-story

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.”

Mapping Solidarity, Liberation, and Activism: A Critical Autoethnography of Asian American Leaders in Counseling

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 246-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian D. Chan ◽  
John J. S. Harrichand ◽  
S Anandavalli ◽  
Shreya Vaishnav ◽  
Catherine Y. Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Pacific Islanders ◽  
Research Scholarship ◽  
Critical Autoethnography ◽  
Professional Contexts ◽  
Wide Swath

Researchers have documented the disproportionate amount of racism against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and a wide swath of exclusionary leadership practices in professional contexts (e.g., higher education, academia, professional associations). AAPI leaders have been largely underrepresented in counseling leadership, higher education, and the broader profession. Due to stereotypes associated with the bamboo ceiling and the model minority, AAPI communities are overlooked for advancement and leadership opportunities while experiencing racial discrimination in a given context (e.g., workplace). However, AAPI leaders can draw from multiple pathways that instill liberation and leverage activism to sustain their footing in leadership spaces. Using an AsianCrit paradigm and critical collaborative autoethnography, seven Asian American counseling leaders explored their experiences with leadership to illustrate the cultural contexts that identified opportunities for solidarity, liberation, and activism. Findings culminated in four themes: (1) recognition; (2) embracing standpoint, social identities, and cultural heritage; (3) resisting through research, scholarship, and leadership; and (4) leaning on community.

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