Asians* are successful** bc of immigration policies designed to source highly specialized labor from peripheries & exclude economic/political “undesirables” (communists & the poor)
*a specific class of specific migrants & their descendants
**overrepresented in particular fields
*a specific class of specific migrants & their descendants
**overrepresented in particular fields
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1372655731762204674
Idea of docile, smart & striving Asians comes from the US occupation of Japan. It’s the antithesis of the yellow peril after the “enemy” is conquered. It was applied to domestic US politics in response to our rising numbers as part of anticommunist & white supremacist ideology
What we now call model minority developed out of global economic changes: an industrializing East Asia, the end of the Vietnam War, outsourcing of labor from the US, the rise of neoliberalism, ongoing poverty for Black & other racialized peoples despite the legal integration
Amidst all this, Asian people came to embody capitalism’s/the US’ capacity to incorporate & rehabilitate enemy and third world peoples—aka racial liberalism. This was ideologically important for dispersing domestic support for revolution & disavowing genocidal wars in the Pacific
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