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

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

by Vivian S. Louie


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... (read more)

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

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

    Hardcover, 268 pages. Published 2004 by Stanford University Press.

    ISBN: 0804749841

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

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

    Paperback, 268 pages. Published 2004 by Stanford University Press.

    ISBN: 080474985X

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