Passing for Perfect - College Impostors and Other Model Minorities

"What is it about model-minority identity that is so hard to let go of? What is so enthralling about its high-achieving gloss-or terrifying about its reputational loss-that could drive someone to pose as a student (at Stanford, or medical school...), or even to murder?"--

About the author

erin Khuê Ninh is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature, which won the Literary Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2013.

Product details

• Authors: erin Khue Ninh, Erin Khuê Ninh
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781439920527
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-2052-7
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Asian American History & Cultu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore