Table of Contents
Acknowledgments v
1 The Problem of Asian American Invisibility 1
The Harm of Invisibility and Hypervisibility 4
Anti-Asian Racism 5
Resisting Anti-Asian Racism: The Politics of Being the Model Minority 8
Resisting Anti-Asian Racism: Panethnicity and Cross-Racial Coalitions 10
Community-Based Education as Resilience and Resistance 12
Road Map for the Book 13
2 Hmong Americans in Lakeview 15
Team Approach to Multi-Sited Ethnography 18
Researcher Politics, Ethics, and Positionality 21
3 Invisibility and Hypervisibility at UHS Stacey J. Lee Linda M. Pheng 29
The Academic World of Hmong American Students at UHS 31
Trapped in ESL 34
College Readiness Programs 41
Beyond Academics: Hmong American Students' Social Worlds 45
Conclusion 52
4 Middle-Class Hmong Leadership and the Push for Inclusion Stacey J. Lee Mai Neng Vang 56
Hmong Education Advocates (HEA) 59
Disaggregating Hmong Data 61
Concerns Regarding ESL 66
Calls for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Hmong Staff 70
Community-Based Education: The Hmong Meskas Summer Camp 73
Program Funding and Support 76
Youth Voices 78
Conclusion 80
5 Solidarity Holds Our Unity Together (SHOUT): Education for Liberation Stacey J. Lee Choua Xiong 84
Community-Based Education at SHOUT 87
Challenging Anti-Blackness 88
Culturally Specific Programming 94
Critical Approaches and Radical Healing 100
Conclusion 103
6 Disrupting Invisibility 107
Disrupting Invisibility Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy 111
References 115
Index 129
About the Authors 137