Asian Indians and the Model Minority Narrative: A Neocolonial System

The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the “Model Minority”

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 203-220

  Bhatt, Archana J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b Feminist and Women s Studies Division   (United States)

^c National Communication   (United States)

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