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

by Vivian Louie

Book Overview

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"