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O'Donnell Award

Nominations are open 
Deadline - July 31, 2022

The latest webinar with Prof
​Danny Kim

Historicizing the Model Minority Myth
 
Korean Americans, and Asian Americans more broadly, are subject to an unusual, contradictory form of discrimination. On the one hand, Korean Americans are a quintessential part of the model minority myth, praised for their putative successes in assimilation and their educational achievements. Yet on the other hand, Asian Americans are also characterized as perpetual foreigners – almost American but not quite. 
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