... alliances available to Vietnamese Americans, model minorityism was perceived as the best available route. Vietnamese refugees arrived in this country with the support of a small but significant bipartisan coalition in government, education, religion, and social services. With that help, Vietnamese...

... as a racial identity by solidifying its congealed affect of racial injury and panethnic resistance in the 1970s. Rather than conceptualizing Asian Americanness as moving in a linear progression from stigmatized yellow peril to assimilated model minority, this chapter demonstrates how both tendencies have...

... reminders of the ideological power of stereotypes. The myth of the model minority, with its stress on economic and professional success continues to influence the way Asian North Americans see themselves and are perceived by others. The first decade of the twenty-first century has been characterized...

.... The author describes the ways in which the model minority myth is wielded as a tool of white supremacy and how the pervasive stereotype overlaps with the imposter syndrome to manifest in a unique oppression targeting Asian American graduate students. The author draws inspiration from Asian American activist...

... about the book club and within the meetings themselves, readers reflect on the terms of their own privilege particularly through an engagement with ethnically authenticating discourses—such as the model minority paradigm and caste consciousness. coethnic s NetSAP DC book club White Tiger Adiga...