Up Against Whiteness: Race, School, and Immigrant Youth
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 how race, class, and gender informed their experiences.
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Lee (educational policy, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) follows a group of first- and second-generation Hmong students as their school experiences cause them to create identities as "new Americans." She uses the "compositional studies" method to analyze how these students' lives were influenced by the exclusion and alienation they found both in and out of the classroom, and how private and public institutions and social and economic structures affected their choices and behaviors. Lee examines how the students became racialized Americans, how they fit into the hierarchy of high school, how they chose their place on the spectrum from the traditional to the "Americanized," and how their experiences were gendered. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Foreword1Becoming racialized Americans12At University Heights High School : creating insiders and "others"233"Traditional" and "Americanized" Hmong students504Wimps, gangsters, victims, and teen moms : the gendered experiences of Hmong American youth875Race and the "good" school123
