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Up Against Whiteness: Race, School, and Immigrant Youth

by Stacey J. Lee · 2005

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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.

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Audience
adult
Length
short · 153 pages

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