South Asian Americans Need Solidarity, Not The “Model Minority” Myth

Before we became the “model minority,” Indian Americans were once considered the “problem minority.” Accounts from the late 19th and 20th centuries, for example, called early Punjabi and Bengali migrant farm workers everything from “undesirable” to “effeminate, caste-ridden, and degraded.”

From being barred from naturalization and citizenship rights in the 1920s to holding positions at the forefront of political and corporate power today, Indian Americans have come a long way. However, not all members of the South Asian diaspora have benefited equally — and some prominent Indian Americans may be widening that divide by allying with conservative white Americans who support crackdowns on other immigrant communities.

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