Compelled to Excel: Immigration, Education, and Opportunity

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

In the contemporary American imagination, Asian Americans are considered the quintessential immigrant success story, a powerful example of how the culture of immigrant familiesâ€”rather than their race or classâ€”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 challenges the idea that race and class do not matter. Though most Chinese immigrant families see higher education as a necessary safeguard against potential racial discrimination, Louie finds that class differences do indeed shape the studentsâ€™ different paths to college. How do second-generation Chinese Americans view their college plans? And how do they see their incorporation into American life? In addressing these questions, Louie finds that the views and experiences of Chinese Americans have much to do with the opportunities, challenges, and contradictions that all immigrants and their children confront in the United States.

Country	USA
Author	Vivian S. Louie
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780804779227
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Stanford University Press
Manufacturer	Stanford University Press
NumberOfPages	268
PublicationDate	2004-08-18
Publisher	Stanford University Press
ReleaseDate	2004-08-18
Studio	Stanford University Press

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

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