The Model Minority Complex: A Primer

The Model Minority Complex: A Primer

Join Natalie Hung, Ph.D. for a FREE 90-MINUTE VIRTUAL TALK that takes a psycho-decolonial-spiritual approach to the model minority stereotype/myth.

Dr. Hung will discuss how the Model Minority Complex--a tangle of projections and racial, cultural, ancestral, intergenerational, familial, and personal stories--can be a gateway to exploring our neglected internal and external landscapes. Mapping this terrain can help us to divest from systems of oppression and reconnect with our souls, purpose, ancestors, and the more-than-human world.

Topics will include:

• Overview of the Model Minority complex
• Connection to current polycrisis
• Inscrutability as an organizing principle
• Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory
• Reconnection to the more-than-human world
• Q&A and discussion

Open to people of the Asian diaspora. All registrants will receive a a Zoom link and a recording.

This is a preview event for Demystifying the Model Minority Complex, a 12-week consultation group for Asian American therapists and healers who have been socialized as model minorities.

Natalie Hung, Ph.D. is a second-generation Taiwanese American Licensed Psychologist, Ancestral Healing Practitioner-in-Training, and writer. Her life’s work is to transform stories that hold us captive into stories that set us free.