Solution: Demographic myth often used with respect to Asian-Americans - NYT Crossword

This is a touching debut, and one that I felt quite ill-equipped to comment on. Fortunately, MODEL MINORITY is today’s seed entry and features in the constructor notes. There’s a notable early reference to this term in an article by a sociology professor in The Times Magazine, from 1966, that is often considered its source. I don’t have anything profound to add, but I am grateful to our constructors for putting their hearts into this grid. Puzzle-making is an art form, and art is meant to inform and provoke thought, conversation and change.