The Yellow Piece of the Mosaic: The Racialization of Asian American Students at the Nation’s Most Diverse High School
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2016
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Haverford College. Department of Anthropology
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Mosaic High School, named the most diverse in 2015, subtlety upholds two problematic stereotypes of Asian Americans thus impacting diversity and inclusion at Mosaic and beyond. Racialized as the forever foreigner, Asian Americans serve as justification that inclusivity efforts are ineffective. Racialized as the model minority, Asian Americans are the perfect “victim” of affirmative action. This lack of diversity and inclusion is overall harmful, but it specifically leaves Asian Americans with narrow comparative frames of reference thus upholding toxic “success frames”.