Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype

by Lee, Stacey J.

• ISBN13: 9780807735091
• ISBN10: 0807735094
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Stacey Lee examines the development of ethnic/racial identity among Asian American students within the context of race relations at a public high school and within the larger society. Lee explores how the stereotype that Asian Americans are all high achievers affects these students and their relationships with other racial groups.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Christine Sleeter
Acknowledgments	xi
Asian Americans: The Absent Minority, the Silenced Minority, and the Model Minority	1	(16)
Discourses of Exclusion: The Absent Voice(s) of Asian America	3	(2)
Model Minority Stereotype as a Hegemonic Device	5	(5)
Overview of the Research Process	10	(5)
Organization of the Book	15	(2)
Waht's in a Name? Asian American Identities at Academic High School	17	(35)
Korean-Identified Students	18	(12)
Asian-Identified Students	30	(5)
New Wavers: A Culture of Resistance	35	(7)
Asian American-Identified Students	42	(8)
``We Are all Asians'': Asians, New Wavers, and Asian Americans	50	(2)
Academic Achievement Among Asian Americans	52	(18)
Explanations for Asian American Educational Achievement	52	(4)
Achievement Among Asian Americans at Academic High	56	(12)
Conclusions	68	(2)
Constructing Race Relations	70	(22)
Admissions	71	(5)
Creating Insiders and Outsiders	76	(10)
Teachers' Interpretation of Race as Ethnicity	86	(2)
Denying Racial Tensions	88	(4)
Student Voices on Race	92	(21)
White Students	92	(6)
African American Students	98	(3)
Asian American Students	101	(10)
Interracial Animosity, Coexistence, and Friendship	111	(2)
Reflecting on the Model Minority	113	(14)
Identity Formation	113	(4)
Cultural-Ecological Framework and Beyond	117	(4)
Issues of Race	121	(4)
Reflecting on the Model Minority	125	(2)
References	127	(8)
Index	135	(8)
About the Author	143