As an Asian-American myself, I like to attribute most of our ethnicity’s success to the hard work we put in. But I’ve come to realize that a narrow mindset is what’s feeding into the dangerous model ...

PHILADELPHIA -- While Asian Americans are a diverse group in every sense of the word, false narratives often obscure that truth. In fact, the anti-Asian backlash we see now is deeply rooted in ...

Recent studies show how slurs framing Indian immigrants as ‘job thieves’ and ‘invaders’ have spread from Texas to Toronto ...

As a young student, researcher and educator Jenn Nguyen both witnessed and felt the pressure of the “model minority” myth ...

In their book, The Myth of Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism, Rosalind Chou and Joe Feagin (2008) write about a young Chinese American woman named R.W.-- who murdered her mother by ...

You’re having a rough day. It’s raining outside, and the shoes that you just washed last week are soaked in mud. You forgot your homework at home, and just found out that the test on your least ...

Recent studies show that Asian-Americans—the so-called "model minority"—aren't thriving in the legal profession to the extent that our "model-ness" might warrant. Recent studies show that ...

The book was purchased through the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center Eleanor Ty's bold exploration of literature, plays ...

As anti-immigration sentiments sweep across the US, UK, Canada and Australia, Indians appear to be a particular target. The ...

The objective of this study is to obtain and discuss in-depth information on mental health problems, including the status, barriers, and potential solutions in 1.5 and 2nd generation Asian American ...

New Delhi, Sept. 7 -- Since December 2024, on these pages, I have warned that a moment of reckoning is coming for the Indian diaspora, one of the great success stories of the country. Long feted as ...

FYI: Twenty-four percent of the city’s Asian American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line, according to an Asian American Federation analysis of new Census data. The child ...