Beyond black and white: The model minority myth and the invisibility of Asian American students

Urban Review

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 455-487

  Wing, Jean Yonemura ^a,b  

^a Oakland Unified School   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian American; High school; Model Minority Myth; Racial achievement gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 36049005865     PISSN: 00420972     EISSN: 15731960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11256-007-0058-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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