AAS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Model Minority, Acting White, Welfare Dependency

• School: CSUN
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: AAS 100
• Professor: Eunai Shrake

Document Summary

Changing nature of aa small business: vendors, business motivation, marketing strategies, clientele. Significance (contributions: culinary / cultural fusion (multiculturalization, street culture, class gaps. Historical experiences of api in american schools (struggle for access and equity) 1960"s was a period of open mindedness in america, many changes in perspective. 10. 8. 15 despite discrimination, high academic achievement & the emergence of model minority myth. Ecological hypothesis voluntary vs involuntary minority (minority group status) Perceptions of social mobility (trust of society) relative functionalism (blocked mobility in non-educational avenues) immigrant mentality (immigrants believe that acting white is good) Contexts of the model minority myth socio-political context. Aftermath of civil rights movement: industrial docility jews and asians vs irish and blacks (jews and asians: key to success - keep out of politics) (irish and blacks: political action, slow in advances economic context. Era of declining u. s. economy - emergence of new black underclass, collapses of white middle class, welfare dependency.