May is Asian and Pacific American Heritage Month, a time when Americans celebrate the profound contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders – a group that is commonly abbreviated as AAPI – ...

Asian and Asian American culture is making its way into mainstream media through recent movies and TV shows highlighting the lives and experiences of Asians and Asian Americans. Popular films like ...

For years, a stereotype concerning the supposed academic dominance of Asian Americans has crept its way into American culture. However, a recent report by a national commission now challenges the ...

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 ...

How does the “model minority myth” impact how funders view and support Asian immigrant communities? What role do disaggregated data play in ensuring their thriving? In a conversation with Ben Hires, ...

When we were both 14-year-old high school students in Scarsdale, my friend Emma (a pseudonym) confided in me that she had thought about suicide. Normally, an admission like this would have been ...

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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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X At Wednesday’s Big Read kickoff. Credit: Kian Ahmadi photo “The model minority myth is my worst ...

The model minority stereotype goes something like this: Asian Americans, while socially and emotionally awkward, enjoy an innate ability to succeed because of “Asian values” which emphasize hard work ...

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 ...