...Shireen M. Roshanravan Abstract Ethnic Studies and Asian American feminist scholars have investigated how the model-minority racial discourse functions to prevent cross-racial coalition and to cast doubt on Asian American women in their claims to Women of Color political identity. However, none...

... experience as a black Chinese American woman, the author reflects on having received anti-black messages throughout her childhood and how her need for healing has paralleled her work which challenges existing racial logic that casts Asian Americans as a model minority in competition and conflict with black...

... repeatedly covered over” (Cheng 2001 , 10). According to Cheng’s model of melancholy, racialized minorities’ experience of these “betrayals” is most amplified when they begin to internalize the deficiency of their symbolic value. National citizenship fails to synchronize with one’s geographic...

... and manage the grief ofinassimilable minority groups. Whereas society at large might pathologize melancholia, condemning its obstruction of an idealized national future, such unresolved grief might, as David Eng suggests, serve as "a model of group formation" (Eng 2000, 1278). Eng writes that a minority...

..., the journal's discursive project includes essays that examine identity implications of the Asian American "model minority" idea; the relationship of queerness and ethnic/class privilege in a popular if controversial novel set in Hawaii; how transnational identity in a Demetria Martinez novel complicates...

... to be far reaching. 10 KARLA FC HOLLOWAY MODELED MINORITIES A biocultural critique relevant to these questions of body and blood, gender and race that also comments implicitly on the arguable coherence of feminism's focus on transnational might give a different perspective on, for example, the adoptions...

... Muslims as educated and well-integrated into American society as juxtaposed to the “unintegrated” British Muslim communities is clearly premised on a class ascendant model-minority politics, one that explicitly displaces terrorism onto less privileged immigrants. For Ali, achieving the American Dream...

... that Asian Americans face and continue to. This inability for us, for America, to really be able to embrace and to understand who Asian Americans are Ross:How has the myth of the model minority affected you and your work, because I would imagine that any time you're organizing around API issues, you run up...

... stereotypes attached to African Americans regarding work 174 MERIDIANS16:I ethic, for example, are replaced with stereotypes of the "model minority" so that African immigrants may be perceived of as more hardworking and compliant than domestic African Americans, blurring their racial association...

... histories of exploitation and exclusion as not, after all, similarly continuing and simultaneous. In this series she most explicitly engages in critique of the myth of model minority. Her work here is a more subtle challenge to its formal premise-to photography's modernistic premise of representing...

.... As an Asian woman, Trenka is rendered invisible on multiple levels: she is considered part of an Asian community that is falsely seen as being homogeneous and as a model minority that quietly assimilates into the mainstream without causing too much "trouble"; and she is culturally constructed as a demure...

... Japanese war brides as the "prototype of the Asian American model minority" in the postwar climate ofliberalism (Simpson 2001, 174).Popular journalistic reports in the mid-195os embraced their marriages to white partners "as a symbol of the realization of the American dream" of pluralism (174).According...

... the levels of success that Indo-Caribbeans from Trinidad and Guyana have experienced, and how this compares to the research on high-achieving Asian Indians (the "model-minority") from other parts of the world. Finally, there is still a good deal to be learned about these women's experiences in the service...

... the revolution’s advances on her return, Casal became something of a “ tabú ” among exiles, as she notes in an interview at the Library of Congress (Casal 1974 , 1975 ; Dorn 1980 ). She disrupted the notion of Cuban exiles as a politically, culturally homogenous “model” minority (faithful to a white-dominant...

.... In discussing the racialization of Muslims in the United States, Neil Gotanda ( 2011 : 194) points out that “the disciplinary function of the ‘good Muslim’ corresponding to the ‘model minority’ is available for use against Muslims . . . who protest or disagree with American domestic or foreign policy.” While...

... are bound by the burden ofbeing perceived to be "out of place" or exceptional. We are definitely not the norm. Indeed, some among us must tell others we are not the cleaning lady; or sit at conference tables surrounded by mostly white males, a few white females, and token minorities; or have our ideas...

... was denied a passport for months by a government embarrassed by her revelations about the persecution ofits Hindu minority. As the situation escalated, and the government issued a warrant for her arrest on charges of"offending religious sensibilities," Nasrin was driven underground to avoid prison. Along...

..., seeks to subvert "all binary modes of thought"' in order to favor a singular model, or what Edouard Glissant refers to as the Tout-Monde, where "you hear these languages of the world meet which makes for huge unplanned detours" (Glissant 1993, 20). In contrast, the "nationalists" are headed...

... dressed in a gold-brocaded sari and gold jewelry, smiling approvingly at the other woman, an Indian fashion model dressed in a black-vinyl body suit and gazing boldly into the camera. The juxtaposition of these two contrasting images oflndian femininity captures in visual terms one of the central stories...

... interventions have unwittingly strengthened the white supremacy within the antiviolence movement. That is, inclusivity has come to mean taking on a domestic violence model that was developed largely with the interests of white, middle class women in mind, and simply adding to it a multicultural component...