He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Urban Educational Doctoral Program. He is the author of The Model Minority Stereotype: Demystifying Asian American Success (2013), editor of The Model Minority Stereotype Reader: Critical and Challenging Readings for the 21st Century (2014), co-editor of Unhooking from Whiteness: The Key to Dismantling Racism in the United States (2013), and co-editor of the forthcoming Killing the Model Minority Stereotype: Asian American Counterstories and Complicity. His research has been published in Equity and Excellence in Education, The Journal of Educational Foundations, and Educational Studies. His website, The Model Minority Stereotype Project, is a leading resource for locating research and writing on the stereotype of Asians/Asian Americans.