The Misrepresented Minority - New Insights on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Their Implications for Higher Education (Hardcover, New)

While Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are growing faster than any other racial group in the U.S., they are all but invisible in higher education, and generally ignored in the research literature, and thus greatly misrepresented and misunderstood.This book presents disaggregated data to unmask important academic achievement and other disparities within the population, and offers new insights that promote more authentic understandings of the realities masked by the designation of AAPI. In offering new perspectives, conceptual frameworks, and empirical research by seasoned and emerging scholars, this book both makes a significant contribution to the emerging knowledge base on AAPIs, and identifies new directions for future scholarship on this population. Its overarching purpose is to provide policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in higher education with the information they need to serve an increasingly important segment of their student populations.In dispelling such misconceptions as that Asian Americans are not really racial minorities, the book opens up the complexity of the racial and ethnic minorities within this group, and identifies the unique challenges that require the attention of anyone in higher education concerned with student access and success, as well as the pipeline to the professoriate.

General

Imprint:	Stylus Publishing Llc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2013
First published:	July 2013
Editors:	Samuel D. Museus • Dina C Maramba • Robert T Teranishi
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	370
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-57922-351-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General Promotions
LSN:	1-57922-351-6
Barcode:	9781579223519

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