By Scot Nakagawa. Cross-posted from Race Files.
This fall, in the wake of the shooting death of
Michael Brown, and in the face of the
mounting Black body count at the hands of law enforcement,
ChangeLab put out a call for a
Model Minority Mutiny. We called on Asian Americans to stand up against the model minority myth as an act of self-liberation from a humiliating, trivializing, and dehumanizing stereotype that has, for too long, been used as a
justification for labeling Black communities as “problem” minorities, and excluding and criminalizing Black people.
Many Asian Americans were already part of the mobilization. Many
more are answering the call.
