An Unseen Unheard Minority : : Asian American Students at the University of Illinois / / Sharon S. Lee.
Higher education hails Asian American students as model minorities who face no educational barriers given their purported cultural values of hard work and political passivity. Described as “over-represented,” Asian Americans have been overlooked in discussions about diversity; however, racial hostil...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Directions in the History of Education
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Select Timeline of Asian American Student Activism at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC)
- Introduction: The Invisibility of Asian Americans in Higher Education Diversity Discussions
- 1. The Historiography of Asian American College Students
- 2. Making Noise in the Background
- 3. We Are Not Model Minorities: A New Asian American Student Movement, 1975–1992
- 4. We Are Minorities: The Fight for Asian American Studies and Student Services, 1992–1996
- 5. Seeing and Hearing Asian American Students
- Appendix: List of Oral History Interviews
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author