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Foreword | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Asian Americans: The Model Minority Stereotype and the Rhetoric of a Post-Racial America | p. 1 |
Asian Americans in the Black and White Discourse on Race | p. 4 |
The Model Minority Stereotype as a Hegemonic Device | p. 6 |
Inside Asian America: The Hidden Diversity | p. 12 |
The Site: Academic High School | p. 17 |
Notes on Methods, Positionality, and Representation | p. 18 |
A Note on the Politics of Identity Labels | p. 23 |
Organization of the Book | p. 24 |
What's in a Name? Asian American Identities at Academic High School | p. 26 |
Korean-Identified Students | p. 27 |
Asian-Identified Students | p. 38 |
New Wavers: A Culture of Resistance | p. 44 |
Asian American-Identified Students | p. 51 |
"We Are All Asians": Asians, New Wavers, and Asian Americans | p. 59 |
Academic Achievement Among Asian Americans | p. 61 |
Explanations for Asian American Educational Achievement | p. 61 |
Achievement Among Asian Americans at Academic High | p. 65 |
Conclusions | p. 77 |
Constructing Race Relations | p. 78 |
Admissions | p. 79 |
Creating Insiders and Outsiders | p. 84 |
Teachers' Interpretation of Race as Ethnicity | p. 94 |
Denying Racial Tensions | p. 96 |
Student Voices on Race | p. 99 |
White Students | p. 99 |
African American Students | p. 104 |
Asian American Students | p. 108 |
Interracial Animosity, Coexistence, and Friendship | p. 118 |
Reflecting Again on the Model Minority | p. 120 |
Asian American Identities Revisited | p. 121 |
Final Thoughts on Identity and Responses to Education | p. 135 |
Issues of Race | p. 136 |
Final Reflections on the Model Minority Stereotype | p. 141 |
References | p. 143 |
Index | p. 155 |
About the Author | p. 164 |
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