Passing for perfect : college impostors and other model minorities / erin Khuê Ninh.
"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?"--
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2021.
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| Series: | Asian American history and culture.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Passing for perfect : |b college impostors and other model minorities / |c erin Khuê Ninh. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : |b Temple University Press, |c 2021. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The strange case of the college impostor -- Gen(i)us -- Exemplary -- Limit case -- Bad boys -- Last words. | |
| 520 | |a "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?"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 520 | |a "In her engaging study, Passing for Perfect, erin Khuê Ninh considers the factors that drove college imposters such as Azia Kim--who pretended to be a Stanford freshman--and Jennifer Pan--who hired a hitman to kill her parents before they found out she had never received her high school diploma--to extreme lengths to appear successful. Why would someone make such an illogical choice? And how do they stage these lies so convincingly, and for so long? These outlier examples prompt Ninh to address the larger issue of the pressures and difficulties of striving to be model minority, where failure is too ruinous to admit. Passing for Perfect insists that being a 'model minority' is not a 'myth,' but coded into one's programming as an identity--a set of convictions and aspirations, regardless of present socioeconomic status or future attainability--and that the true cost of turning children into high-achieving professionals may be higher than anyone can bear. Ninh's book codifies for readers the difference between imposters who are con artists or shysters and those who don't know how to stop passing for perfect."-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2021). | ||
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