Title: “Are Asian Americans even people of color?” | by Chip Chang | Medium
Headings: “Are Asian Americans even people of color?”
“Are Asian Americans even people of color?”
Origins of “Model Minority”
It is not about hard work, effort, or merit. It is about resources, wealth, and how much you start off with, and even then, that does not offer security for Black families. It is about the odds that are stacked for or against you.
Explaining Model Minority Success
The model minority is integral to American ideologies and mythologies.

Content: Racial stereotypes were created and utilized to explain individual and group behaviors. For instance, Black families suffered from poverty because they were lazy. Black people were incarcerated at disproportionate rates because they were inherently criminal and violent. Latinos were hard working, but lacked intelligence. And Asians were successful because they were naturally intelligent and genetically-engineered to be hard-working. So what happens then when race becomes conflated with stereotypes? We then see race as biological rather than socially constructed. We see race and characteristics affiliated with different races as synonymous with one another. We then see those characteristics as inherent to the individual, a genetic code that predetermines someone, and a group’s, future. We create generalizations that explain a racial group’s failure, rather than addressing the very real systemic, institutional, and cultural barriers put into place.