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Showing 1 to 20 of 639 for “"The myth of "model minority""”.
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King of the Hill's Souphanousiphones, the New Model Minority, and the Subversive Model Minority
Though the term "model minority" was only coined in the 1960s to apply to Asian-Americans, in the white imagination, a "model" way to be a minority has always existed. This model has gone through various iterations from the "happy" blacks of the antebellum years to supposedly over-achieving …
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Asian American college students' mathematics success and the model minority stereotype
The often aggregated reports of academic excellence of Asian American students as a whole, compared to students from other ethnic groups offers compelling evidence that Asian Americans are more academically successful than their ethnic counterparts, particularly in the area of mathematics. These …
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Neoliberal globalization, racism and education: The model minority thesis in education policy
… opportunities for racial minorities in the US unintentionally exacerbate racial inequality? What can we do about it? “Neoliberal Globalization, Model Minority Politics and Education Policy Research” traces current trends in US education policy research discourse about Asians to argue …
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The Model Minority Stereotype's Impact on Korean American High School Students' Educational Outcomes
<p>The Model Minority Stereotype (MMS) continues to shape the educational experiences of Korean American students, reinforcing high academic expectations while marginalizing their unique challenges. This dissertation examines how MMS perceptions influence academic self-concept and social-emotional …
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Portrait of a Stereotype: Asian Americans' Experiences With the Model Minority Stereotype During Adolescence
Asian Americans are often characterized as intelligent, industrious, and reserved, an image called the model minority stereotype (MMS). Previous research linked Asian American youths’ perceptions of the MMS with positive academic and psychological outcomes. The current study extends these findings …
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Acculturation and Enculturation, Model Minority Stereotype, Distress, and Life Satisfaction in 1.5 Generation Asian Adolescents
… generation Asian Americans are those who move to the U.S. between the ages of six and thirteen from their countries of origin. These individuals are members of a unique population in that they can adapt to American cultural norms faster than their adult counterparts and can experience the process …
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Model Minority Mismatch: Exploring the Community College Experience and Persistence of Southeast Asian American Students
<p>This study aimed to investigate the relationship of Southeast Asian American student involvement and persistence in urban community colleges of Illinois. There are large gaps in research regarding the academic struggles of Southeast Asian American students because most data concerning Asian …
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Teacher Perception of Asian American Students as Model Minority in STEM: Does Having Multicultural Perspective Help?
Background: In the United States, Asian Americans are often stereotyped as “model minorities” who are naturally proficient in STEM fields. While this stereotype may appear positive, it can obscure the diverse experiences of Asian American students, including those who face academic challenges or …
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Campus Climate, Racial Threat, and the Model Minority Stereotype: Asian Americans on a College Campus Following Sensational Crimes
This study measures the campus climate for Asian Americans on a college campus before and after tragic events, and places it in the context of what is known about the social location of Asian American students nationally. Using a multi-method approach, including in-depth interviews supplemented by …
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Beyond the Margins of the Model Minority: The Development and Validation of the East Asian American Situational Judgment Test
With the onset of COVID-19 and the anti-Asian bias that has followed, there is growing importance in creating empirically valid measures of racial prejudice. In general, there has been limited research on workplace experiences for Asian Americans, despite this group being one of the fastest-growing …
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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
… published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Minority Resources and Community Involvement in Model Cities
… in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:49:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317526.pdf: 4255577 bytes, checksum: b2ad368b9eedd711944ac9239493c4a7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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The Myth of the Saving Power of Education: A Practical Theology Approach
… for success in formal schooling, specifically the ability to "save" marginalized groups from poverty by lifting them into middle- class success. The link between education and salvation is grounded in the historic relationship between Christianity and the establishment of public education in …
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A Longitudinal Analysis of a Geography-Based Minority Recruiting Model
The dissertation presents a study of a geography-based minority recruiting program and its participants. The study investigated the postsecondary goals and commitments of participant-students and their knowledge and understanding about geography as major discipline and career path. In addition, …
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Gender minority stress and gender dysphoria: Expanding the minority stress framework
The purpose of this study was to validate the orignal Gender Minority Stress Model (GMSM) (Hendricks & Testa, 2012) in a U.S. population, as it has only been tested in international populations (e.g., Jäggi et al., 2018; Scandurra et al., 2017; Scandurra et al., 2018). A second aim of this study …
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Family Resilience Model of Behavioral Health for Low-Income Ethnic Minority Families
Over the past decade, the concepts of relational and family resilience have emerged as topics of interest in family science. Individual, family, and community level determinants of family resilience have received increased amount of attention in family resilience research particularly among …
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Assisting minority micro-entrepreneurship : evaluation of a proposed model for Brazilians in Massachusetts
Assessment of an economic development plan, based on entrepreneurship assistance, for a newcomer ethnic group in Massachusetts, U.S. Approached as a consulting project, recommendations for improvement are offered at the end. After a survey of current literature on entrepreneurship, a summary and …
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Identity Denied: Minority-Within-Minority Discrimination and the Contradictions of British Multiculturalism
This thesis explores the causes and lived experiences of anti-Ahmadi sentiment in the United Kingdom. It reveals that British Ahmadis experience severe, targeted anti-Ahmadi hostility, which is both more widespread and has a greater negative impact on their lives than the anti-Muslim prejudice they …
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A stress process model for anxiety symptom severity: comparing racial and ethnic minority adults
… for anxiety at levels equal to or greater than their Caucasian peers. However, our knowledge about contributors to anxiety symptom development and stressors unique to these populations is limited. This dissertation explores predictors of anxiety symptom severity in racial/ethnic minority adults …
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