1st Edition
Cambodian American Youth, Identity, and Schooling Ethnographic Research
By Vichet Chhuon
Copyright 2025
104 Pages
by
Routledge
104 Pages
by
Routledge
104 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines how Cambodian American high school youth reconcile stereotypes, identities, and school opportunities and the ways these factors impact academic achievement and well-being, through ethnographic research.
The backdrop for Cambodian American life is intimately embedded within how Asians and Asian Americans are imagined within U.S. society. This book argues that how Cambodian... Read more
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. FOBS and Orange Chicken
2. Ethnic Othering and Cambodian American Youth
3. Small Schools, Academic Hierarchies, and Cambodian American Identities
4. I’m Khmer and I’m not a Gangster!”: The Problematization of Cambodian American Boys
5. Conclusions
References
Index
Biography
Vichet Chhuon, PhD, is Associate Professor of Culture and Teaching and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota.
