num_pages: 168
description: Pushing the boundaries of Asian American educational discourse, this book explores the way a group of first- and second-generation Hmong students created their identities as “new Americans” in response to their school experiences. Offering an opportunity to rethink the “norm,” this important volume pays particular attention to how race, class, and gender informed their experiences. Revealing the complex dynamics between immigration and Americanization, this engaging 
language: English
title: Up Against Whiteness: Race, School, and Immigrant Youth
titlecomplete: Up Against Whiteness: Race, School, and Immigrant Youth
genres: Teaching, Anti Racist, Education, Social Justice, Race, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 106
publisher: Teachers College Press