An Unseen Unheard Minority

Asian American Students at the University of Illinois

Sharon S. Lee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

198 Seiten

2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2444-7 (ISBN)

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As they were not underrepresented, Asian American students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were denied minority student services. Over many decades, Asian American students fought to be seen and heard, challenging the university’s narrow view of minority students, and changing campus resources for Asian Americans.

Higher education hails Asian American students as model minorities who face no educational barriers given their purported cultural values of hard work and political passivity. Described as “over-represented,” Asian Americans have been overlooked in discussions about diversity; however, racial hostility continues to affect Asian American students, and they have actively challenged their invisibility in minority student discussions. This study details the history of Asian American student activism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as students rejected the university’s definition of minority student needs that relied on a model minority myth, measures of under-representation, and a Black-White racial model, concepts that made them an “unseen unheard minority.” This activism led to the creation on campus of one of the largest Asian American Studies programs and Asian American cultural centers in the Midwest. Their histories reveal the limitations of understanding minority student needs solely along measures of under-representation and the realities of race for Asian American college students.

SHARON S. LEE is a teaching assistant professor in education policy, organization, and leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Select Timeline of Asian American Student Activism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
List of Abbreviations
Foreword by Joy Williamson- Lott
Preface
Introduction: The Invisibility of Asian Americans in Higher Education Diversity Discussions
1: The Historiography of Asian American College Students
2: Making Noise in the Background: Asian American Students at Illinois, 1968-1975
3: We are Not Model Minorities: A New Asian American Student Movement, 1975-1992
4: We are Minorities: The Fight for Asian American Studies and Student Services, 1992-1996
5: Seeing and Hearing Asian American Students
List of Oral history Interviews
Acknowledgments
Select Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.01.2022
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in the History of Education
Vorwort	Joy Williamson- Lott
Zusatzinfo	18 b-w images, 1 table
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	3 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2444-0 / 1978824440
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2444-7 / 9781978824447
Zustand	Neuware