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In this episode, On the Issues host Michele Goodwin dives into the recent rise in anti-Asian violence and subsequent protest movements, and the questions they have raised about the current status of Asian American identity in the U.S. How does “Asian” identity fit into the American racial taxonomy, which has for so long relied on a dichotomy of Black and white? Are Asian Americans a “model minority”?

Goodwin and her guests will answer all these questions, and more:

“The model minority myth pretends that the Asian-American community is a monolithic group, while it is very far from the truth. Some 23 million Asian Americans can trace their roots to more than 20 countries and 50 ethnic groups in Asia.” —Yang Huang, award-winning novelist and short story writer

“What we really have is structural favoritism toward Asian Americans relative to Black people, that we can see, in my reading, from the first Chinese laborers until the present.” —Dr. Claire Kim, professor of political science and Asian American studies at the University of California, Irvine

“We started understanding, wait a minute. We’ve been relocated just like Native Americans. We’ve been discriminated, just like Black people. We’ve been hung. We’ve been terrorized. Maybe we have something in common here.” —Nobuko Miyamoto, actor, activist, singer and third-generation Japanese American whose work has blended art and activism since the 1960s
 

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