Debunking the Model Minority Myth

Using Asian “success” to disprove racism is both deceptive and harmful

Tim Wise
Our Human Family
Published in
9 min readSep 28, 2019

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By the mid-1960s, the Civil Rights movement had secured the passage of legislation outlawing discrimination in employment and public accommodations, as well as the Voting Rights Act.

Additionally, President Johnson had announced several community-based initiatives…

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Tim Wise
Our Human Family

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)