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Counterstories of the Model Minority Myth

Sat, April 5, 8:15 to 10:15am, Convention Center, Floor: 100 Level, 103A

Session Type: Symposium

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This presentation extends a dialogue surrounding the model minority stereotype with the goal of enabling educators (K-12 teachers and teacher educators) and students (PK-20) to act from positions of knowledge, power, and understanding. To achieve the symposium’s aims, the presentations grapple with several dynamics of the model minority phenomenon, including research on Korean international students’ experiences in an American high school, research on the perspectives and experiences of Asian American undergraduates at Virginia Tech following the April 16th massacre, forensic psychological research that highlights several high profile Asian cases that either reinforce or debunk the model minority stereotype of Asians, and research that examines the paradoxical effect of the model minority myth on recent Korean immigrant youths’ peer relationships.

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