When Nicholas Kristof Just Doesn’t Get It About Asian Americans
This is an awkward question, but here goes: How does a respected New York Times opinion-maker expend so many words…
Tag: Model Minority Myth
Race is No Just Cause: The US Government’s Racist Profiling of Asian Americans
Earlier this week, I gave a standing-room only talk at Yale about the Asian American Model Minority Myth, wherein I…
No, Asian Americans Were Not Silent on Jerry Hough’s Comments Regarding AAPI Assimilation
This story is perhaps the perfect one to pull me out of my self-mandated, unannounced, unofficial mini-hiatus from blogging, which…
Unprotected by Assimilation: Lessons from the Case of Duy Ngo
By Guest Contributor: Bao Phi When I began reading that a White House petition had collected 100,000 signatures — many…
May 4: The Culture Canard of the Model Minority Myth | #APAHM2015 #ReappropriateRevisited
For this year’s AAPI Heritage Month, I will take each day to pull one of my favourite posts or pieces from the…
How both Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart got it really wrong on Asian Americans
So this happened. I guess because Bill Maher’s battle of wits (in absentia) with Ben Affleck over Maher’s latent Islamophobia went…
The Culture Canard of the Model Minority Myth: how racial gaps in academics aren’t due to cultural pathology
This past week, Bill O’Reilly was his usual raging asshole self when he set out on his Fox News show “The…
Report shows San Francisco’s AAPI residents experience high poverty, chronic disease rates
Jessica Kwong (@JessicaGKwong) of the San Francisco Examiner summarizes a recent report issued by the Asian Pacific Islander Council titled “Asian and Pacific…