Compelled to Excel: Immigration, Education, and Opportunity Among Chinese Americans

by Vivian Louie

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In the contemporary American imagination, Asian Americans are considered the quintessential immigrant success story, a powerful example of how the culture of immigrant families--rather than their race or class--matters in education and upward mobility. Drawing on extensive interviews with second-generation Chinese Americans attending Hunter College, a public commuter institution, and Columbia University, an elite Ivy League school, Vivian Louie...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0804749841

ISBN13:9780804749848

Release Date:August 2004

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:268 Pages

Weight:1.04 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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