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This week, one of the articles that we took a look at was "What Asian Americans are Bringing to Campus Movements for Racial Justice." This article examined the role of Asian Americans and their place in the different sorts of racial/social justice movements that took place on campus and how Asian Americans fit into the larger scope of racism and movements as a whole. Many of the events that the article examined were during a time when the "black vs white" narrative was mounting due to a string of racially and politically charged events, such as the unrest and violence that was occurring in Ferguson, and protests that were led by black students and activists, but examined them through the lens of Asian Americans. One of the pressing questions was indeed what sort of place did Asian Americans have in the growing turbulence in the "black vs white" narrative. Asians are indeed minorities, but the extent of persecution and prejudice against us was not seen as severe as what the black community endured, and many would say that we even have a certain privilege and that we have advantage, even over the whites - the dominant population in the United States. The more and more we look at our difficulty in fitting in with the conflict, the more it brings us back to the concept of the model minority.
Q - How does the model minority myth affect how much prejudice and discrimination that Asian Americans face? What sorts of privileges/problems does it bring up for Asian Americans in every day life?
References
1) Putterman, M. T. (2016). What Asian Americans are Bringing to Campus Movements for Racial Justice. Retrieved November 12, 2017
2) [Model Minority Comic]. (2011, March 29). Retrieved November 12, 2017, from https://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/not-your-model-minority-the-complexity-of-asian-americans-in-21st-century-american-film/
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