• restricted access The Asian American Educational Experience: A Source Book for Teachers and Students, and: Asian Pacific American Women in Higher Education: Claiming Visibility and Voice, and: Breaking the Silence: Race and the Educational Experiences of Asian American College Students, and: Converging Stereotypes in Racialized Sexual Harrassment: Where the Model Minority Meets Suzie Wong, and: Higher Education as Gendered Space: Asian-American Women and Everyday Inequities, and: Issues of Curriculum and Community for First-Generation Asian Americans in College, and: Power to the People!: The Don Nakanishi Tenure Case at UCLA, and: Racial Politics and the Invisibility of Asian Americans in Higher Education, and: Racism and the Model Minority: Asian-Americans in Higher Education, and: The Retreat from Race: Asian-American Admissions and Racial Politics, and: Special Focus: Asian Pacific American Demographic and Educational Trends, and: Teaching Asian America: Diversity and the Problem of Community, and: Uniqueness of the Asian-American Experience in Higher Education (review)

  • Jennifer A. Yee , Elaine W. Kuo
  • Journal of Asian American Studies
  • Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Volume 3, Number 1, February 2000
  • pp. 101-110
  • 10.1353/jaas.2000.0012
  • Review
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Journal of Asian American Studies 3.1 (2000) 101-110



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Bibliograpahic Review Essay: The Experiences of Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education

Jennifer A. Yee and Elaine W. Kuo *


The Asian American Educational Experience: A Source Book for Teachers and Students. Edited by Don T. Nakanishi and Tina Yamano Nishida. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Asian Pacific American Women in Higher Education: Claiming Visibility and Voice. By Shirley Hune. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1998.

"Breaking the Silence: Race and the Educational Experiences of Asian American College Students." By Keith Hiroshi Osajima. In Readings on Equal Education: Qualitative Investigations into Schools and Schooling 11. Edited by Michéle Foster. New York: AMS Press, 1991, 115-34. 1

"Converging Stereotypes in Racialized Sexual Harrassment: Where the Model Minority Meets Suzie Wong." By Sumi K. Cho. In Critical Race Feminism. Edited by Adrien Katherine Wing. New York: New York University Press, 1997, 203-20.

"Higher Education as Gendered Space: Asian-American Women and Everyday Inequities." By Shirley Hune. In Everyday Sexism in the Third Millennium. Edited by Carol Rambo Ronai, Barbara A. Zsembik, and Joe R. Feagin. New York: Routledge, 1997, 181-96.

"Issues of Curriculum and Community for First-Generation Asian Americans in College." By Peter Nien-chu Kiang. In New Directions for Community Colleges 80 (Winter 1992): 97-112. [End Page 101]

"'Power to the People!' The Don Nakanishi Tenure Case at UCLA." Amerasia Journal 16:1 (1990): 63-169.

"Racial Politics and the Invisibility of Asian Americans in Higher Education." By Keith Osajima. In Educational Foundations 9:1 (Winter 1995): 35-53.

"Racism and the Model Minority: Asian-Americans in Higher Education." By Sucheng Chan and Ling-chi Wang. In The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education. Edited by Philip G. Altbach and Kofi Lomotey. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991, 43-68.

The Retreat from Race: Asian-American Admissions and Racial Politics. By Dana Y. Takagi. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

"Special Focus: Asian Pacific American Demographic and Educational Trends." By Shirley Hune and Kenyon S. Chan. In Minorities in Higher Education, 15th Annual Status Report. Edited by Deborah Carter and Reginald Wilson. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 1997, 39-67, 103-07.

Teaching Asian America: Diversity and the Problem of Community. Edited by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.

"Uniqueness of the Asian-American Experience in Higher Education." By David L. Tan. In College Student Journal 28:4 (1994): 412-21.

The mission of many institutions of higher education embraces the values of service, scholarship, truth, freedom, justice, community, and democracy. 2 The research intersecting Asian Pacific Americans (APAs) and higher education offers a unique opportunity to reflect on how well these values are promoted, not only from within the field of Asian American studies (AAS), but also higher education itself. In this bibliographic essay, we highlight thirteen readings from the 1990s 3 that represent scholarly work salient to the intersection of APAs, AAS, and higher education. These scholars note that colleges and universities appear to compromise their values. The significance of these works lies not only in their contributions to existing...

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