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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"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
… many topics of discussion including the model minority stereotype: a misconception that all Asian Americans are high academic achievers. Research has shown that this seemingly positive stereotype produces negative effects in Asian students. The aim of this study is to examine differences …
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Neoliberal globalization, racism and education: The model minority thesis in education policy
… 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 that prevailing conservative and liberal social justice based paradigms abstract race and, in some critical …
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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
… 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 with a longitudinal follow-up on 152 Asian American …
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Acculturation and Enculturation, Model Minority Stereotype, Distress, and Life Satisfaction in 1.5 Generation Asian Adolescents
… be perceived by their peers and teachers as the model minority, which involves assumptions such as Asian individuals are hardworking, well-behaved, and intellectual (Thompson & Kiang, 2010; Shen et al, 2011; Yoo & Miller, 2015). Additionally, the model minority label suggests that Asian Americans …
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Model Minority Mismatch: Exploring the Community College Experience and Persistence of Southeast Asian American Students
… in academics, especially when compared to other minority groups, such as African American and Latinos, resulting in Asian Americans being stereotyped as the “model minority” (CARE, 2008). However, a closer assessment of the data shows that only a portion of the Asian American population are …
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Teacher Perception of Asian American Students as Model Minority in STEM: Does Having Multicultural Perspective Help?
… 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 racial trauma, ultimately …
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Campus Climate, Racial Threat, and the Model Minority Stereotype: Asian Americans on a College Campus Following Sensational Crimes
… so it addresses the more general question of minority stereotyping and strategies taken by minority groups to compensate for such stereotypes. Findings from this study suggest that the campus climate for Asian American undergraduates appears to be welcoming, and respondents do not report …
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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
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Asian American identity in the collegiate music school setting
… stereotyped by their ethnicities, most often as model minority individuals with high intelligence and strong work ethic, and (c) two of three participants felt as though the Asian American perspective was often left out of conversations of diversity and oppression. These findings highlight the …
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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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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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"(Un)seen and (un)heard: the struggle for Asian American ""minority"" recognition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968-1997"
… Asian Americans have often been excluded from minority student status because they are ""overrepresented."" As a result, universities overlook their need for culturally and racially relevant curricula and support services. Unable to argue that they are underrepresented and depicted as the …
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Chinese-American and Japanese-American college students' perceptions and attitudes: Asian heritage in contact with the American cultural environment
… stereotyping based on generalizations of ""model minority,"" and racism from negative perceptions of ""those Orientals."""
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Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating Induced Transport in Stellarators and Other Asymmetric Toroids
A Monte Carlo simulation is developed to model minority ion transport and fundamental ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) in asymmetric magnetic field geometries. A discrete event model is used to superimpose resonance heated nonadiabatic changes in an ion's magnetic moment on a Coulomb …
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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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