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Kim, Esther June; Falkner, Anna – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2022
The realities of COVID-19 have clearly revealed the myth of the model minority, a stereotype in which Asian Americans are seen as successful and high achieving in contrast to other Communities of Color. An ever-present, but sometimes seemingly dormant, anti-Asian racism in the United States is reflective of patterns in U.S. immigration history.…
Descriptors: Models, Minority Groups, Asian Americans, Stereotypes
Wong, Morrison G.; Hirschman, Charles – 1979
In the early 1960s, Asian immigration to the United States was severely limited. The passage of the Immigration Act of 1965 expanded Asian immigration and ended a policy of racial discrimination and exclusion. Currently, over one third of the total immigrant population to the United States is from Asia, particularly China, Japan, Korea, the…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Demography, Employment Level, Employment Patterns