From 'Problem' to 'Model' Minority

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 23, 2020

Arun Venugopal, senior reporter with WNYC's race & justice unit, talks about his family's story, which exemplifies how a generation of educated, well-off Indian immigrants were eased into American society after 1965, and how they fit into the fight for racial justice and immigration policy today.

→"The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism" (The Atlantic, Jan/Feb Issue)

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