Links and Additional Readings

How does this stereotype affect people today?

Asian-American college students have one of the highest rates of attempted suicide and suicidal thoughts compared to their non-Asian colleagues, and the pressure to stay quiet and model the "correct" way for minorities in America to behave is not helping.

News



The Real Reasons the U.S. Became Less Racist toward Asian Americans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/29/the-real-reason-americans-stopped-spitting-on-asian-americans-and-started-praising-them/?utm_term=.c1dc42137e51


Behind the 'Model Minority' Myth: Why the 'Studious Asian' Stereotype Hurts
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/behind-model-minority-myth-why-studious-asian-stereotype-hurts-n792926


'Model Minority' Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks

'Model Minority' Seems Like a Compliment, but It Does Great Harm
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/10/16/the-effects-of-seeing-asian-americans-as-a-model-minority/model-minority-seems-like-a-compliment-but-it-does-great-harm?mcubz=1


The Model Minority Myth

http://fortune.com/2017/04/17/the-model-minority-myth

The Professional Burdens of Being a Model Minority
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/professional-burdens-model-minority-asian-americans/485492


A History of the Asian-American Experience



Exploring the Japanese Internment through Film and the Internet
https://caamedia.org/jainternment/postwar/empowerment.html


Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University
https://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/wordpress/about-our-project


Anti-Chinese Movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_Americans#Anti-Chinese_movement


Chinese Exclusion Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act


Transcontinental Railroad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_Americans#Transcontinental_railroad


Learn More About the Stereotype

Model Minority
https://depts.washington.edu/sibl/Publications/Model%20Minority%20Section%20(2011).pdf

Model Minority
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_minority




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