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Asian American youth : culture, identity, and ethnicity by Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou, Lee, Jennifer, Zhou, Min, Jennifer Lee, Min Zhou is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Asian American population of the United States has grown exponentially over the last couple of decades. Yet the state of scholarly and popular knowledge of the Asian American experience remains scandalously superficial -- with facile old cliches still dominating the cultural imaginary. Drs. Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou do us all a great service by producing an interdisciplinary and comparative volume that is not only state-of-the-art social science but will push us to re-think basic ideas about the rich variety of experience and condition of a growing sector of the American mosaic. This lively and multifaceted collection of essays reintroduces the sociology of youth into the field of race-and-ethnicity; it sheds light on ethnic practices and institutions that have remained invisible in the study of (adult) immigrants; and it informs us about how the children of Southeast Asian immigrants are becoming Asian Americans. Asian American Youth is also a good read about a very active bunch of young people. The editors of this edited collection start from the paradox of presence/absence -- Asian American students are the fastest growing ethnic group across many college campuses, and yet p

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Author

Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou, Lee, Jennifer, Zhou, Min, Jennifer Lee, Min Zhou

Publisher

ROUTLEDGE

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415946698

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Science