| Asian Americans and Civil Rights We are committed to generating and synthesizing research on key civil rights and equal opportunity policies that have been neglected or overlooked. Asian Americans in Metro Boston: Growth, Diversity, and ComplexityPaul Watanabe, Michael Liu and Shauna Lo. May 27, 2004 In the late 20th century, statistics were used to portray Asian Pacific Americans as a monolithic Model Minority, a community in which everyone was well-educated and well-off, a concept that is often used to drive a wedge between minority communities.” Mindful of the potential of statistics to perpetuate myths and misunderstandings about Asian Americans, we are determined in this report to utilize data drawn from the 2000 U.S. Census to paint as accurately as possible a portrait of the often ignored and misrepresented Asian American community in Metro Boston.
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