Policy Suggestions for Combating the Asian American Model Minority Stereotype - Higher Education: Part one of this series reviewed what five decades of research does and does not tell us about the model minority stereotype (MMS). We learned that Asian Americans were intentionally selected to be model minorities and that the positive stereotype of Asian Americans is not positive since it masks the mental health and social difficulties this heterogeneous population experience.
This final installment shares five policy recommendations that professors, administrators, policy makers, and student service providers may find useful in their fields of influence: (1) disaggregating data, (2) counterstory telling, (3) developing datasets, (4) conducting interdisciplinary research, and (5) critiquing fellow Asian Americans who reify the MMS.
