Model-minority status held Asian Americans permanently below Whiteness.

Evidence

To be sure, Asian Americans (Christian or otherwise) are still lower in the racial-religious hierarchy than White Christians. For example, Asians’ high levels of education, move to White suburbs, and cultural assimilation did not grant them entrance to Whiteness, as it did the Jews, Catholics, and Mormons of European descent. Rather, Asians were perceived as model minorities, simultaneously blamed for stealing Whites’ educational and employment opportunities and held up to show the failures of the African American and Latino communities. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 347 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: US courts redefined race socially to permanently exclude Asians from whiteness and citizenship — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 966; The model minority label masks Asian American discrimination and poverty — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 994; Asian Americans became model minorities only by contrast with Black civil-rights activism. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 346 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Asian American assimilation did not grant them entry to Whiteness. #corroborates (0.95) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 347