Cambodian American Youth, Identity, and Schooling

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.

Vichet Chhuon, PhD, is Associate Professor of Culture and Teaching and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota.

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