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Passing for perfect : college impostors and other model minorities / erin Khuê Ninh.

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"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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Ninh, Erin Khuê (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2021.
Series:Asian American history and culture.
Subjects:
Model minority stereotype > United States.
Impostors and imposture > United States.
Asian American students > Psychology.
Asian American families > Psychology.
Asian Americans > Ethnic identity > Social aspects.
Asian Americans > Race identity > Social aspects.
Impostors and imposture.
Model minority stereotype.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The strange case of the college impostor
  • Gen(i)us
  • Exemplary
  • Limit case
  • Bad boys
  • Last words.

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