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Lee, Stacey J. – Teachers College Press, 2022
"Resisting Asian American Invisibility" highlights one group's struggle for educational justice. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in formal and informal educational spaces, this book argues that Hmong American youth are rendered invisible by dominant racial discourses and current educational policies and practices. The book…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Hmong People, Ethnic Stereotypes, Ethnography
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Ngo, Bic; Lee, Stacey J. – Review of Educational Research, 2007
Similar to other Asian American students, Southeast Asian American students are often stereotyped by the popular press as hardworking and high-achieving model minorities. On the other hand, Southeast Asian American youth are also depicted as low-achieving high school dropouts involved in gangs. The realities of academic performance and persistence…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Academic Achievement, Educational Experience, Asian American Students
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Lee, Stacey J. – Race, Ethnicity & Education, 2006
Despite the largely monolithic descriptions of Asian American students as high achieving model minorities, Asian Americans are a diverse group and their experiences are varied and complex. This article explores the ways that social class, ethnicity, generation, and gender shape the educational opportunities, experiences and achievement of Asian…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Educational Opportunities, Student Experience, Social Differences
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Lee, Stacey J. – Education and Urban Society, 2002
Explored how Hmong American high school students interpreted the meaning of being Hmong in the United States, examining how the culture of whiteness shaped their experiences and understandings of being American. The culture of whiteness led these students to internalize the message that whites were the only real Americans. They were very aware…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student), High Schools
Lee, Stacey J. – 1996
The model minority image of Asian Americans authorizes the flat denial of racism and structures of racial dominance and silences those who are not economically successful. This book explores how young people incorporate, interpret, and make meaning of the "model minority" stereotype in the context of their lived experience in school and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Cultural Images
Lee, Stacey J. – Teachers College Press, 2005
Pushing the boundaries of Asian American educational discourse, this book explores the way a group of first- and second-generation Hmong students created their identities as "new Americans" in response to their school experiences. Offering an opportunity to rethink the "norm," this important volume pays particular attention to…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Hmong People, Ethnicity, Racial Identification