Decoupling race and ethnicity from achievement
Decoupling race and ethnicity from achievement
- May 16, 2014
- Research by Jennifer Lee, sociology professor, is featured in the Examiner May 16, 2014
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From the Examiner:
For Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant parents and their children, success is equal
to getting straight As, graduating from an elite university and pursuing an advanced
degree. However, these narrow measures of success can make those who do not fulfil
the strict aspirations feel like ethnic outliers, warn Jennifer Lee of UC Irvine in
the US and Min Zhou of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
For the full story, please visit http://www.examiner.com/article/decoupling-race-and-ethnicity-from-achie....
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