Is Gay the New Asian?: Marriage Equality and the Dawn of a New Model Minority

Abstract

INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................. 5 I.ASIAN IMMIGRATION AND THE AMERICAN FAMILY: SHIFTING THE RHETORIC FROM EXCLUSION TO ASSIMILATION ................................ 9 A. Family Ideation and Early Stereotypes of Asians as Sexualized Yellow Peril ............................................................ 11 B. Family Ideation and the Stereotyping of Asians as a Sexual Model Minority ......................................................................... 15 II.WHY GAY IS DEFINITELY NOT THE NEW BLACK: THE EVOLUTION OF THE BAD QUEER INTO THE GOOD GAY ........................................ 21 A. Incrementalism and the Narrowing of Dignity ............................ 22 B. Racial Implications of Incrementalism ........................................ 27 III. FROM WHITEWASHING TO PINKWASHING: MODEL MINORITIES AND THE ENTERPRISE OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM .................. 33 IV. CONCLUSION .......................................................................................... 37