The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project

Asian Americans "prove" American Dream to be real

In a New York Magazine article contemplating why democrats lost the 2017 presidential campaign, Andrew Sullivan demonstrates how Asian Americans continue to be used as evidence against the relevancy of racism in America today: "Yet, today, Asian-Americans are among the most prosperous, well-educated, and successful ethnic groups in America. What gives? It couldn’t possibly be that they maintained solid two-parent family structures, had social networks that looked after one another, placed enormous emphasis on education and hard work, and thereby turned false, negative stereotypes into true, positive ones, could it? It couldn’t be that all whites are not racists or that the American dream still lives?"