From the Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing

From The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism by Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin
Chou and Feagin document that model minorities experience great stress with pressure to conform to white-dominated society in the face of very strong racism and discrimination. Using in-depth interviews, the authors give voice to Asian Americans' experience with discrimination and how they cope with it as a model minority that--in the public consciousness--obscures the pressures and discriminatory experiences of model minorities.
-Identify the range of negative stereotypes directed toward Asian immigrants, and how, according to the authors, they reflect ambivalence and inconsistent views toward Asian Americans.