The reigning misperception about culture and Asian American achievement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2148254
AutoresJennifer Lee (0000-0002-5383-694X, Columbia University, autor de correspondencia), M Zhou (0000-0003-4692-7234, University of California, Los Angeles)
Año2020
Volumen43
Número3
Páginas508-515
Fecha de publicación2020-02-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2020.1678760
OpenAlexW2999888390
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas12

Asian Americans graduate from college at higher rates than other groups, and evince educational outcomes that match or exceed those of their parents. They comprise about 25 per cent of the student body in Ivy League institutions, despite making up only 6 per cent of the U.S. population. While it may be tempting to reduce Asian American academic achievement to Asian culture, and Confucian values more specifically, we provide disconfirming evidence, both within the United States and beyond, to show the fallacy of this logic. Contemporary U.S. Asian immigrants are "hyper-selected": they are more likely to have graduated from college than their non-migrant counterparts, and also more likely to be college-educated than the U.S. mean. Hyper-selectivity and its spillover effects explain the exceptional educational outcomes of Asian Americans. It is time that we laid to rest the reigning misperception that Asian American academic achievement can be reduced to Asian culture or Confucian values

Academic achievement · Asian americans · Ethnic group · Fallacy · Immigration · League · Mathematics education · Political science · Population · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Demography · Gender Studies · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research