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The term “model minority” gained popularity during the 1980s, when it was used throughout the media, on college campuses, and in political discourse as description for Asian American communities, whose scholarly, cultural, and economic achievements and practices were believed to be superior to those of other ethnic minority groups.

Last week, after going back and forth with Sportaphile about whether Hip Hopor Parents raised the kids I asked him:If I started a website, voter registration, polling, policy advocacy etc, what would be a meaningful way to allow people to facilitate working for social change, in their respective

Left in the Margins: Asian American Students and the No Child Left Behind Act, a report by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), states that the myth of the model minority often negates the fact that many Asian … Read the original: How can you be a "model minority" if you

The Times of India (TOI) recently reported on two chilling incidents in the US involving persons of Indian origin. A 66 year-old man had his African-American daughter-in-law killed because his son’s relationship with the black woman was perceived to have brought shame upon the family.

The Boulder Daily Camera today ran a front-page story about the recent study about Asian Americans and the model minority myth. The study found that because Asians are not all high-achieving academic wiz-kids, and that the diversity of the Asian communities (we’re not just Japanese, Chinese and Koreans,

You would think that in a blog dedicated to issues of race in the U.S. and my own focus on Asian American issues I would have written an extensive post on the "Model Minority Myth" (lets just abbreviate to MMM for the duration of this post) and yet, after a quick search, I saw that I've alluded to MMM in several posts and assumed everyone knew what I was talking about.

A report was released today regarding the state of Asian Americans in Academia as reported in the New York Times. It has this quote:  “The report quotes the opening to W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1903 classic “The Souls of Black Folk” — ‘How does it feel to be a problem?’ — and says that for Asian-Americans,

Posted by peterong in Asian American, Rants, Reflections. Tags: model minority, racetrackback A report was released today regarding the state of Asian Americans in Academia as reported in the New York Times. It has this quote:  “The report quotes the opening to W. E. B.

The New York Times; by Tamar Lewin; June 10, 2008 The image of Asian-Americans as a homogeneous group of high achievers taking over the campuses of the nation’s most selective colleges came under assault in a report issued Monday.

Click on the above text to open the podcast. Why didn't you all tell me that I would need to find a webhost for the podcast? Arrrg. I just had to give myself a tutorial on converting wav's to mp3's. I wasn't going to publish it, then I heard Tiggalo's and was like wait, I gotta do it.