Another excellent resource is Ellen D. Wu’s “The Color of Success”.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691168029/th...
It’s a well-researched academic history of how Asian status in society changed in American history. Why were Chinese immigrants seen as inferior and sinister in the 19th century but by the 1970s, Chinese-Americans were seen as model minorities? The “good ones” who were politically compliant, hard working, family-oriented, good at school, and Christian?
She shows how there was the desire to fight the Cold War and the blunt the advance of the African-American civil rights movement led to the creation of the Asian-American minority myth.