AAS 246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Model Minority, Asian Americans, Family Values
20 Jan 2017
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The model minority concept is strongly represented in mainstream and independent media productions about asian americans. We see it in the films we saw in class. Race is a social construct that generally draws on biology and culture to explain how one looks, is categorized, and understood. It is also conflated with the term ethnicity. Race is a concept that is intertwined with relationships of power. It is linked to a system of domination and inequalities, i. e racism. It is also used by marginalized in opposition to racism, i. e. Social construct meaning that something is created people and made meaningful in social interaction. Gender is a social construct that is usually used to explain sex roles (i. emale, female, intersex) It is generally used to describe concepts of femininity and masculinity. Gender is a concept that is intertwined with relationships of power. For example, the construction of asian american males as asexual.
