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Asian American Ethnic Options: How Cambodian Students Negotiate Ethnic Identities in a U.S. Urban School
Author(s) -
Chhuon Vichet,
Hudley Cynthia
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2010.01096.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , negotiation , gender studies , sociology , identity (music) , asian americans , social psychology , psychology , social science , anthropology , physics , acoustics
Research suggests that Cambodian students often endure conflicting ethnic stereotypes from larger society and their school and communities. We examine the ways in which Cambodian youth negotiated their ethnic identities in response to these stereotypes and argue that Cambodian students adopted, rejected, and affirmed certain ethnic identities in relation to perceived advantages associated with different labels across varying school contexts. [Asian American identity, Cambodian/Khmer students, ethnic stereotypes, model minority]