Over the past three decades, many higher education scholars have engaged in efforts to counter the stereotype that Asian Americans achieve universal and unparalleled academic success. While most of these scholars adopt an anti-oppression approach, some researchers have claimed that this literature reinforces oppressive deficit paradigms. To understand this conflict in existing literature, the current authors utilize an anti-imperialistic approach to analyze scholarship on the model minority myth. The current analysis reveals little evidence that research on the myth reinforced hegemonic deficit thinking. Instead, authors find that scholars largely utilized complex and multifaceted antideficit approaches, challenged dominant essentialist model minority frames, engaged in strategic (anti-)essentialism to navigate complex pan-racial contexts, and reframed the myth to achieve diverse purposes that speak to different audiences. Several implications for conducting critiques of literature reviews and future research on the myth are discussed.

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对典型少数民族神话的反帝国主义批判种族分析

在过去的三十年里，许多高等教育学者致力于反击亚裔美国人在学术上取得普遍和无与伦比的成功的刻板印象。虽然这些学者中的大多数采用反压迫的方法，但一些研究人员声称，这些文献强化了压迫性赤字范式。为了理解现有文献中的这种冲突，当前作者利用反帝国主义的方法来分析关于模范少数民族神话的学术研究。目前的分析表明，几乎没有证据表明对神话的研究强化了霸权赤字思维。相反，作者发现学者们在很大程度上利用了复杂和多方面的反赤字方法，挑战了占主导地位的本质主义模型少数群体框架，从事战略（反）本质主义以驾驭复杂的泛种族背景，并重新构建神话以实现针对不同受众的不同目的。讨论了对文献评论进行批评和对神话的未来研究的几个影响。