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(Rerelease) SOC121 – 'X' Number of Asians: The Model Minority Myth
Season 8 · Episode 12

(Rerelease) SOC121 – 'X' Number of Asians: The Model Minority Myth

The Social Breakdown

June 9, 202140m 43sExplicit

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Show Notes

With the #StopAsianHate movement, we wanted to bring back an episode from our first season about the Model Minority Myth. It's important to break down this myth, because we live in a world of identity politics where we fight over who gets to speak for whom and how we represent ourselves within institutions. Who is the model minority, and how did this term come to be? What social pressures defy or reproduce stereotypes? And what problems does this myth create for other people of color? Join us in our conversation on the model minority and the taken-for-granted notions of this myth.