Experts say a combination of factors, including shame, socioeconomics, cultural barriers, confusion about what constitutes a disability, the model minority myth and a reluctance to identify as ...

In rural areas, 7.6% of those who identified as an ethnic minority reported 3 or more physical disabilities, compared to 4.7% of Han Chinese. No such pattern was observed in the urban population.

The so-called model-minority myth is no myth at all. By any empirical standard, there actually are model minorities — and model majority groups too.

The minority stress model is an explanatory theory to help better understand the social, psychological, and structural factors relating to mental health inequalities in sexual minority populations.

Privilege-adjacent. Invisible at times. As an Asian American, that's how I typically used to think of my minority status. Society labels us the "model minority" when it is convenient. Sometimes we ...

The odious “model minority” myth is alive and well in America. For decades, it’s been the target of criticism because of the pressures many Asian Americans, in particular, say it places on ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- CeFaan Kim hosted and moderated 'Not Your Model Minority: Shattering the Myth,' a town hall marking Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. The town hall streamed ...

Yet students with disabilities — whom Pinillos calls “a forgotten minority” — are not always included in social justice conversations, she said.

The report, titled “I Am Not a Fetish or Model Minority: Redefining What it Means to Be API in the Entertainment Industry,” was presented this week during a panel at the Bentonville Film Festival.

Nearly one in every five Americans have a disability, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. This means that people with disabilities are the largest minority group in the nation.