Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May is Asian and Pacific American Heritage Month, a time when Americans celebrate the profound contributions of Asian Americans ...

As an Asian-American myself, I like to attribute most of our ethnicity’s success to the hard work we put in. But I’ve come to realize that a narrow mindset is what’s feeding into the dangerous model ...

Asian and Asian American culture is making its way into mainstream media through recent movies and TV shows highlighting the lives and experiences of Asians and Asian Americans. Popular films like ...

The odious “model minority” myth is alive and well in America. For decades, it’s been the target of criticism because of the pressures many Asian Americans, in particular, say it places on their ...

When we were both 14-year-old high school students in Scarsdale, my friend Emma (a pseudonym) confided in me that she had thought about suicide. Normally, an admission like this would have been ...

In their book, The Myth of Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism, Rosalind Chou and Joe Feagin (2008) write about a young Chinese American woman named R.W.-- who murdered her mother by ...

People who don’t know its history think the model minority myth assigned to Asian Americans has positive connotations. After all, on the surface, it is tied to success and achievement which are ...