Ching Chongs and Tiger Moms
The “Asian Invasion” in U.S. Higher Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8066385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oiyan Poon (0000-0001-8205-4675, American Institute of Biological Sciences, corresponding author), OiYan A Poon (OiYan A. Poon is currently a research associate at the UMass Boston Institute for Asian American Studies, and will be the 2011–2012 visiting research fellow at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. Her research interests include public policy and social contexts of college access, youth and community-based policy research methods, and social demography and GIS spatial analysis methods.) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 144-150 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Amerasia Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-7471 • E-ISSN: 2642-0228 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17953/amer.37.2.m58rh1u4321310j4 |
| OpenAlex | W2211174581 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 6 |
Personal memoirs by people who are not household names rarely set off fiery debate and conversations the way that Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother ignited them in January 2011.1 Yet Tiger Mom's chronicle of her experiences as a second-generation Asian American woman raising mixed-race, third-generation daughters has clearly struck a national nerve. The book has been discussed in major print and broadcast media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, NPR, and the New York Times, just to name a few; Chua has even made an appearance on The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. The hype generated around the book can be explained by two key concepts. First, Battle Hymn converges with the master narrative framing Asians in America as invading foreigners who maintain their peculiar un-American cultures in the U.S. Second, it concomitantly connects to cultural fears of a non-white population challenging white supremacy vis-a-vis educational attainment, particularly in elite college admiss
Ancient history · Art · Battle · Comedy · Elite · Framing (construction · Hymn · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Population · Sociology · Tiger · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Critical Race Theory in Education · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Law · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Confucianism, Chinese Families, and Academic Achievement
Measuring Stereotypes Against Asian Women in the U.S
On our own terms
The Paradox of Organizational Double Jeopardy
Asian American Racialization & Model Minority Logics in Linguistics
Unpacking the Complex and Multifaceted Nature of Parental Influences on Southeast Asian American College Students' Educational Trajectories
Critical Race Parenting
How does it feel to Be a solution
Terrible security problem
Removal, Refusal, Rehearsal
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,77 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |