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Asians in the Ivory Tower: Dilemmas of Racial Inequality in American Higher Education, by Robert T. Teranishi. New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 2010. 192pp. $31.95 paper. ISBN: 9780807751305.
Striking a delicate balance between the need to document sweeping societal changes and the lived experiences of individuals, Robert Teranishi's Asians in the Ivory Tower provides a nuanced understanding of a largely misunderstood group within higher education. Dismissing the model minority as a dangerously inaccurate stereotype, Teranishi proceeds to demonstrate the remarkable diversity of experience among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and the harmful policy effects of the model minority myth. Asians in the Ivory Tower thus succeeds in demonstrating...