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Race, Stories, and Remembering
Okihiro's thesis in this oral history project is to examine "the nature of antiracism and its articulations with racism and their outcomes" (Okihiro, Storied Lives 137) by focusing on the assistance, the students received from other Americans (Japanese and non-Japanese) and recount their experiences as Nisei students in Word War II America. Moreover, Storied Lives articulates "in their own words" how the same Nisei students struggled to find accommodating schools to attend with or without the help of white Americans. Okihiro also seeks to acknowledge the works of white and Japanese Americans in a shared battle against racism. Okihiro contends that Asian American studies - in fact, race relations as a phenomenon - will gain from an understanding not just of racism but also of its counterpoint in antiracism. Okihiro writes that, "Like racism, it [antiracism] is situated in time and place and [it is] freighted with multiple meanings, ambiguities, and contradictions because of its complex and portable social positions and contexts" (Okihiro, Storied Lives 138).

Gary Okihiro narrates selected archived stories of the over 5,500 Japanese Americans who left the concentration camps to complete their education at more progressive non-west coast college and universities situated outside the exclusion zone. To bring these stories to life, Okihiro investigated the archives/records of both the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council and the War Relocation Authority, surveyed the colleges and universities the Nisei attended, examined and re-articulated oral histories from Nisei students,student relocation staff members, and examined the records of the and other materials. ... Read more

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Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economical perspectives.

Using a culture-based framework, the volume is organized in five sections, each devoted to educational practices in one civilization in Asia: Sinic, Japanese, Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu. Culture and culture identities essentially are civilization identities; the major differences among civilizations are rooted in their different cultures. This framework offers a novel approach to capturing the essence of the diverse educational systems and practices in Asia.

Uniquely combining description and interpretation of educational practices in Asia, this Handbook is a must-have resource for education researchers and graduate students in international and comparative education, globalization and education, multicultural education, sociocultural foundations of education, and Asian studies, and for educational administrators and education policy makers.

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The chapters inCultural Capital and Black Educationdemonstrate that"cultural capital" in various forms became a major resource historically forthe funding of African American schools and other educational activitiesand programs. African Americans were willing to contribute their time,energies, and financial and material resources to support these educationalinstitutions because they knew they were important for the advancementof African Americans as a group. ... Read more

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Before the founding of the United States, enslaved Africans advocated literacy as a method of emancipation. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, blacks were at the forefront of the debates on the establishment of public schools in the South. In fact, a wealth of ideas about the role of education in American freedom and progress emerged from African American civic, political, and religious communities and was informed by the complexity of the Black experience in America. Education as Freedom: African American Educational Thought and Activism is a groundbreaking edited text that documents and reexamines African-American empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions to knowledge-making, teaching, and learning and American education from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century, the most dynamic period of African-American educational thought and activism. African-American thought and activism regarding education burgeoned from traditional academic disciplines, such as philosophy and art, mathematics and the natural sciences, and history and psychology; from the Black church as well as from grassroot political, social, cultural, and educational activism, with the desire to assess the stake of African Americans in modernity. ... Read more

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Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American communities initially served on the departmental advisory boards, planning and developing areas of the curriculum, university pressures eventually dictated their expulsion. At that moment in history, the intellectual work of the field was split off from its relation to the community at large, giving rise to the entire problematic of representation in the academic sphere.

Even as the original objectives of the field have remained elusive, Asian American studies has nevertheless managed to establish itself in the university. Mark Chiang argues that the fundamental precondition of institutionalization within the university is the production of cultural capital, and that in the case of Asian American Studies (as well as other fields of minority studies), the accumulation of cultural capital has come primarily from the conversion of political capital. In this way, the definition of cultural capital becomes the primary terrain of political struggle in the university, and outlines the very conditions of possibility for political work within the academy. Beginning with the theoretical debates over identity politics and cultural nationalism, and working through the origins of ethnic studies in the Third World Strike, the formation of the Asian American literary field, and the Blu's Hanging controversy, The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies articulates a new and innovative model of cultural and academic politics, illuminating the position of ethnic studies within the American university.

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In "Defense of Asian American Studies" amounts to tales from the trenches on the origins and evolution of the field of Asian American studies, as told by one of its founders and most highly regarded scholars. With great intellectual energy, critical acumen, and a sly sense of humour, Sucheng Chan discusses her experiences on three campuses within the University of California system where Asian American studies was first developed - in response to vehement student demand - under the rubric of ethnic studies.Chan speaks by turns as an advocate and an administrator striving to secure a place for Asian American studies; as a teacher working to give Asian American students a voice and white students a perspective on race and racism; and, as a scholar and researcher still asking her own questions. The essays span three decades, closing with a piece on new challenges that face Asian American studies. Eloquently documenting a field of endeavour in which scholarship and identity define and strengthen each other, this volume combines analysis, personal experience, and practical advice indispensable to those engaged in building and sustaining programs in Asian American studies. ... Read more

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Over twenty essays provide background materials
In A Resource Guide To Asian American Literature over twenty essays provide background materials for the college-level study of Asian American literature, focussing on fifteen key novels and six works of drama and providing essays which examine the works, their critical receptions, and their authors. The results may be used as an introductory classroom text or for supplemental reading and analysis. ... Read more

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This authoritative book shows how the gap between a group's mean IQ and achievement can be precisely measured, and then partitioned between two factors -- an important methodology with potential application for all ethnic groups. In this case, the author shows that Chinese Americans' occupational achievements are generally far beyond their IQ -- as if they had a mean IQ 21 points higher than they actually do. This unique approach to explaining group achievement emphasizes non-IQ factors such as historical origins, family, work ethic, educational tradition, personality traits, and social institutions.
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Discusses the correlation between ones' self conception andones' academic performance.African centered rites is a process ofrituals and ceremonies based on African concepts. ... Read more

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This indispensable reference is a comprehensive guide to significant issues, policies, historical events, laws, theories, and persons related to the education of African-Americans in the United States. Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, the volume chronicles the history of African-American education from the systematic, long-term denial of schooling to blacks before the Civil War, to the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau and the era of Reconstruction, to Brown v. Board of Education and the civil rights reforms of the last few decades. Entries are written by expert contributors and contain valuable bibliographies, while a selected bibliography of general sources concludes the volume. ... Read more

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Total waste of time
Nice to look through but that is about it.It may help someone.Who knows?Had a lot of information but not much relevance.

MISLEADING
I was VERY disappointed with this book, and found it to be just a marketing spin with the cover and title.I bought a couple of other general scholarship books, and this book was just more of the same.If you are looking for tips relating specifically to Asian-Americans, this is NOT the book for you.

You get what you bought
The information provided in the book is accurate, although readers need to be aware that updates are always made and some scholarships may no longer exist. The sad part is that a student or someone looking out for their academic opportunities had to take the trouble to PURCHASE a source of information just to find opportunities for a better education, instead of having it given to them. There is something wrong with this picture. ... Read more

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The contributions to The Asian American Educational experience examine the most significant issues and concerns in the education of Asian Americans. Contributors, all leading experts in their fields, provide theoretical discussions, practical insights and recommendations, historical perspectives and an analytical context for the many issues crucial to the education of this diverse population--controversies in higher education over alleged admissions quotas, stereotypes of Asian American students as "whiz kids", Asian Americans as the "model minority", bilingual education, education of refugee and immigrant populations, educational quality and equity. Special emphasis is given to both the historic debates which have shaped the field, and the concerns and challenges facing educators of Asian American students at both the K-12 and university level. ... Read more

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Since the 1960s, the enrollment of foreign and American born Asian students at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) increased at a consistently higher rate than that of other minority groups. Consequently, a sharp decline of Asian American freshman enrollment at UCB in 1984 led to a five-year admissions dispute between UCB and the Asian American community in California. This book reconstructs the case, identifies the causes and changes resulted from the dispute, and discusses the related social issues. It demonstrates the conflict between the overabundance of UCB-eligible Asian American applicants and the goals of UCB's admissions policy: to enroll students representing the cultural, racial, geographic, and socio-economic diversity of the California population. ... Read more

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Struggling To Be Heard offers various theoretical frameworks for understanding culture and language diversity in Asian Pacific American young people. The authors weave a unique tapestry integrating curriculum, instruction, mental health issues, language issues, delinquency, policy, disabilities, and cultures. They also offer critical recommendations for teachers, social workers, school psychologists, school administrators, bilingual professionals, and policy makers who work with Asian Pacific American children and youth so they can make a difference in the lives of Asian Pacific American students and address their unmet needs. ... Read more

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A college guide designed for students of color provides information on two hundred top American schools, with facts about student populations, faculty and administrators, scholarships, ethnic studies programs, and tips on financial aid, admissions, and selecting a college. Amazon.com Review
When it comes time for high school seniors to face theonslaught of college material, The Multicultural Student'sGuide shines among college guides. It's especially useful forminority students interested in statistics on nonwhite applicants,acceptances, and retention rates. It tells what more than 200 ofAmerica's top schools offer, academically and socially, for studentsof color. With its user-friendly format and comments from studentsattending the institutions, the guide will be of interest to anycollege-bound student, especially those looking for a multiculturallydiverse campus. ... Read more

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Need an Updated Version of this Book
This book is very important for minority students.Unfortunately, it is now 2006 and this version was published in 1996.Minority students need to know about colleges and how they can be accepted on campus.They also need to know the groups on a college campus in which they can seek support and help when needed.I hope that a new version comes out at some point so minority students have somewhere to turn.

Just what Barron's is missing--inside views of the top schoo
Wow!I just received my copy of the guide in the mail from, yes, amazon.com, and I think it's a terrific resource.It will be of use to meand my students as i work with them to gain admission to America's topcolleges.A college admissions officer told me Mitchell's guide was agreat resource for her, and i can tell already it will be a great resourcefor me as well ... Read more

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5 Stars...Buy (& Read!) This Book
This book was very well written, very accurate, and an overall excellent study into the subject.One of the few I recommend to friends.Author is sharp as a tack. ... Read more

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This book—an ethnographic and discourse analytic study of an after-school video-making project for 1.5- and second-generation Southeast Asian American teenagers—explores the relationships among stereotype, identity, and ethnicity that emerge in this informal educational setting.
 
Working from a unique theoretical foundation that combines linguistic anthropology, Asian American studies, and education, and using rigorous linguistic anthropological tools to closely examine video- and audio- recorded interactions gathered during the video-making project (in which teen participants learned the skills for creating their own video and adult staff learned to respect and value the local knowledge of youth), the author builds a compelling link between micro-level uses of language and macro-level discourses of identity, race, ethnicity, and culture. In this study of the ways in which teens draw on and play with circulating stereotypes of the self and the other, Reyes uniquely illustrates how individuals can reappropriate stereotypes of their ethnic group as a resource to position themselves and others in interactionally meaningful ways, to accomplish new social actions, and to assign new meanings to stereotypes.
 
This is an important book for academics and students in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, and applied linguistics with an interest in issues of youth, race, and ethnicity, and/or educational settings, and will also be of interest to readers in the fields of education, Asian American studies, social psychology, and sociology. ... Read more

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"By examining the debate over Asian-American admissions at such universities as Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton, Takagi explains important developments in the politics of race. Her central argument is that the controversial admissions policies facilitate a subtle but important shift away from racial and toward class preferences in affirmative action procedures. This complex and sensitive subject is carefully analyzed, and will help readers understand the intricacies of university policy and the politics of admissions." --Library Journal ... Read more

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Now for a REAL review of this book
During the 1980s, there was a big controversy over whether elite colleges were placing a ceiling on the number of Asian-Americans they would admit.Takagi takes a sociological look at this issue as it affected two premier UC schools.Takagi tracks how universities pitifully defended themselves first by saying, "Well, we have enough science majors" and then by saying, "We can't admit Asians if we have to give so much affirmative action to blacks."It is particularly interesting seeing this book in light of Proposition 209's aftermath.Having read this book before I headed to Berkeley's law school, I found it a very useful guide.I think this text is a good addition to the burgeoning field of Asian-American studies.

Nice detective work into the 1980's admission wars
I'm Arthur Hu, and I'm mentioned as the prime culprit in turning UC away from strict quotas. She's got me wrong when she says I'm against all preferences, I'm just for putting on a limit, disclosing differential standards, and putting a ban on strict quotas, which is exactly what Berekeley and UCLA were doing with 8%+ black and 20% Hispanic admissions, exactly equal to their stated goals. I've stashed away a few extra copies of you need them. ... Read more