Voices of the Crisis

In CUNY TV’s second virtual town hall special on COVID-19, host Mike Gilliam talks with Anthony Ciampa of the New York State Nurses Association; Angie Kamath, University Dean for Continuing Education and Workforce Development; Dr. Bruce Y. Lee of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy; Micheal Lawrence of the Engineering Technology … Read more

Asian Americans are Not the “Model Minority”

Asian Americans are wrongly assumed to be doing well, uniformly and virtually without exception. The stereotype, dubbed “the model minority myth,” has been debunked again and again, but it persists in ideological claims that Asian Americans demonstrate racial discrimination that has been eliminated and hard work is all it takes to do well.