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Metropolitan & Regional Inequalities 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.
Racial Segregation and Educational Outcomes in Metropolitan Boston Chungmei Lee. April 21, 2004 Even as we commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, in which “separate” was deemed “inherently unequal,” and the thirtieth anniversary of the Boston school desegregation order, school segregation and its associated unequal opportunities persist and are increasingly metropolitan-wide in scope. In many ways, metro Boston provides an interesting example of the dynamics of segregation. Since the 1970s, the City of Boston has been the center of attention for desegregation efforts in the urban North. Boston’s urban desegregation experience was, in important respects, the nation’s worst, due to a unique level of violence and political polarization in the city.
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