Asian Americans are often stereotyped as studious, successful, smart — a model minority who excel in education and accomplish the “American Dream.” Despite its positive overtones, this stereotype is damaging for Asian Americans and other students of color. The model minority myth pits students of color against each other and ignores the reality of systemic racism that Asian Americans continue to encounter.
In response, USC Pacific Asia Museum has partnered with the USC Asian Pacific American Student Assembly, to collect stories from Asian and Pacific American students that deal with this stereotype every day. Included online are individual stories, told anonymously, to help debunk, the model minority myth.
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This is a community exhibit in collaboration with five Pasifika artists engaging the power of storytelling to humanize the numbers …
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The museum collection includes Japanese Paintings and Drawings, more than 800 examples of Japanese, Chinese, and “Orientalist” Graphic Art, including …
From the confines of concentration camps and locales under martial law to the battlegrounds of Europe, Japanese Americans drew on …
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Join us on a journey through Dunhuang, an ancient oasis connecting peoples and cultures, where the sights and sounds come …
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This exhibition centers on paintings collected in Bali by cultural anthropologists Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) and Margaret Mead (1901-1978) during their …
