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Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth
Stacey Lee examines the development of ethnic/racial identity among Asian American students within the context of race relations at a public high school and within the larger society. Lee explores how the stereotype that Asian Americans are all high achievers affects these students and their relationships with other racial groups.
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
April 28th 1996
by Teachers College Press
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Lee, Stacey J. Unraveling the “Model Minority” Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth. Teachers College Press, 1996. 141 pages. ISBN 0-8077-3509-4
University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Professor of Educational Policy Studies Stacey J. Lee provides an ethnographic study of Asian-American students at a high-achieving, east-coast high school. During the 1990 school year, Lee studied 82 Asian-American students and the impact of the model minority stereotype. The stereotype, which gaine...more
University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Professor of Educational Policy Studies Stacey J. Lee provides an ethnographic study of Asian-American students at a high-achieving, east-coast high school. During the 1990 school year, Lee studied 82 Asian-American students and the impact of the model minority stereotype. The stereotype, which gaine...more
Interesting look at how Asian students feel about being labeled the 'Model Minority' and the pressure that goes along with that label. The idea projects an image of hard working students who dress and act more like their white counterparts than do other minority students.
if I remember correctly, a pretty average treatment of the topic based on interviews at one high school
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