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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Model Minority Myth"”.
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“Naturally quiet” Asian kids: How White secondary teachers decide which students to refer to school-based mental health services and the influence of the model minority myth on their decisions
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Pushed into STEM: Investigating the Racialization and Cultural Influences on East Asian Americans' Decisions to Major in STEM
Asians are portrayed as model minorities, with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education proficiency and a natural aptitude for STEM occupations. While the Model Minority Myth portrays Asian Americans as naturally suited for technical and academic success, it ignores the …
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Belonging in the Psychic Nowhere: Racial Trauma, Racial Melancholia and Related Mental Health Outcomes Amongst South Asian Immigrants in the US
… which obscures unique experiences due to the model minority myth and leads to a paucity of targeted studies, particularly in the U.S. Mental health outcomes, specifically depression, self-harm and disordered eating behaviors are prevalent within this community, and are exacerbated after …
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Building Awareness of the Mental Health Issues of Asian American College Women
… than their ethnic counterparts because of a model minority myth and lack of studies and attention. The project aims to develop a tool for Asian American women college student which could not only increase awareness of this population’s needs but also self-awareness of an importance of their …
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Asian and Asian American Racialization through Legislative Language in the 2023 State Alien Land Bills
… are racialized through "yellow peril," "model minority myth," and "forever foreigner" tropes but little existing sociological research analyzes the usage of Asian and Asian American racial tropes in legislation and law on a national scale. The data for this thesis consists of 79 bills …
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Interrogating Whiteness in Graduate Education Culture: A Phenomenological Exploration of Southeast Asian American Graduate Student Experiences
… With concepts of whiteness (e.g., censorship, model minority myth as either/or thinking, the right to comfort, and power hoarding) penetrating these four areas, implications include but are not limited to: culturally conscious organizational practices to promote inclusion; culturally conscious …
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Differential Impact of Racial Microaggressions on Asian Americans: Relationship to Perpetrator and Power Status
… unremitting image of Asian Americans as being "Model Minority" has created a veil that conceals their incessant struggles with discrimination, prejudice and microaggressions on individual, institutional and cultural levels. Previous studies have highlighted the personal and collective struggles …
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Here Be Dragons: The Barriers of Korean American Female Leaders in Secondary Schools
… contexts of Korean patriarchy, the Model Minority Myth, and mentorship to help frame the problem of existing barriers. This study explores the following questions: What factors hinder Korean American women in school leadership? What structural on-ramps are needed to encourage Korean …
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Intergenerational influences of second-generation Chinese American academic and career exploration : using a career genogram as a guiding tool
… statuses. In sum, results further challenge the Model Minority Myth (Yip et al., 2021) that perpetuates many Asian-Americans in the U.S., and showed that the career genogram exercise can provide perspectives on the academic and career exploration needs of second-generation Chinese-Americans that …
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Becoming, learning, and belonging: A Qualitative study on Asian American alumni reflections on high social racial identity formation, Asian American curriculum, and building community
… render them invisible. Key findings show how the Model Minority Myth (MMM) continues to exist in education spaces, but Asian American students challenged the MMM. At the same time, Asian Americans find space for themselves and belonging in schools through the importance of Asian American educators …
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Investigating the Risk Factors of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Among Korean Immigrant Women in America
… radar screens (Hicks & Li, 2003). Also, the “model minority myth” has led to the underestimation of the risk of violence against women among Asian immigrants and thus leads to an underinvestment of research and service resources for this vulnerable population (Leong & Lau, 2001; Rhee, 1997; …
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Activism among Asian American college students: A grounded theory study
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Hmong Americans in Higher Education: Exploring their Sense of Belongingness and the Concept of the American Dream.
<p>I conducted this study to examine Hmong American college students' perspectives on sense of belongingness and their idea on the American Dream. The college experience can serve as a precursor to improving the social and economic situation of the Hmong students when aligned with the personal …