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Bailey B. Smolarek; Matthew Wolfgram; Chundou Her; Lena Lee; Stacey J. Lee; Geboli Long; Payeng Moua; Kong Pheng Pha; Ariana Thao; Mai See Thao; Mai Neng Vang; Susan Vang; Chee Meng Xiong; Choua Xiong; Edward Xiong; Odyssey Xiong; Pa Kou Xiong; Ying Yang Youa Xiong; Kayeng Yang; Lisa Yang; Mai Chong Yang; Scy Yang; Steven Yang – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2024
Asian Americans as a group are overrepresented among STEM college graduates and have the highest average college enrollment rate of any racial or ethnic category. Thus, Asian Americans are typically excluded from educational interventions directed at improving STEM education for Students of Color because they are not considered to be…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, STEM Education, Student Needs, Social Influences
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Lowinger, Robert Jay; Kornbluh, Mariah; Hartlep, Nicholas Daniel; Luong, Alexandra; An, Mihyang; LePeau, Lucy Anne – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2021
Using a sample of 119 Hmong students, this study employed multiple linear regression analysis to examine the role of ethnic identity, principled policy beliefs, self-interest, and gender in Hmong college students' support for college affirmative action policies designed to benefit their own group. Results indicated principled policy beliefs as…
Descriptors: Hmong People, Asian American Students, Ethnicity, Beliefs
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Smolarek, Bailey B.; Wolfgram, Matthew; Vang, Mai Neng; Xiong, Choua P.; Lee, Lena; Lee, Pangzoo; Thao, Myxee; Vang, Kia; Xiong, Pa Kou; Xiong, Odyssey; Xiong, Pheechai – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
This article presents the institutional and historical context, methods, findings, and action-consequences of 'Our HMoob American College Paj Ntaub,' a qualitative, student-led Participatory Action Research (PAR) project documenting the sociocultural and institutional factors that influence HMoob American college students' experiences at the…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Research, Participatory Research, Action Research
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Vue, Rican – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2021
Since 1975, over 3 million refugees have entered the United States, yet schools are unequipped to recognize and comprehend refugee communities' life circumstances as shaped by structural and symbolic violence. The educational experiences of second-generation Hmong American refugees highlight this neglect and its potential consequences for…
Descriptors: Trauma, Resilience (Psychology), Hmong People, Asian American Students
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Vue, Rican – Journal of College Student Development, 2021
While scholars have noted the levels of educational attainment of Hmong Americans compared to East Asian Americans as well as the overall population, this focus has undermined the achievements of Hmong Americans. To shift the discourse on Hmong American students and provide a liberatory perspective, I examined the student-initiated organizing…
Descriptors: Hmong People, College Students, Student Attitudes, Creative Teaching
Thao, Mai Chao – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Since their settlement in the United States, Hmong American women have established themselves in professional organizations across various disciplines as lawyers, teachers, university professors, medical doctors, and political leaders. However, the data on the education achievement of Hmong American women reveal that Hmong American women have one…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Experience, Student Attitudes, Hmong People
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Kwan, Yvonne Y. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2015
This research identifies how anti-immigrant sentiment and racism, which have historically been reflected and transmitted through nativist language policies and school curriculum, affect second-linguistic-generation Hmong Americans--not via overtly xenophobic and discriminatory acts but via subtle yet hurtful racial microaggressions. Interviews…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Racial Bias, Hmong People, Public Policy
Vue, Rican – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Hmong American students and their struggles are largely invisible yet grossly misunderstood when seen. This study reveals how Hmong Americans negotiate the contours of race and ethnicity to construct an affirming identity on their respective university campuses. A framework of campus racial climate is employed to investigate how institutional…
Descriptors: Hmong People, Asian American Students, Race, Ethnicity
Rong, Xue Lan, Ed.; Endo, Russell, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Asian American Education--Asian American Identities, Racial Issues, and Languages presents groundbreaking research that critically challenges the invisibility, stereotyping, and common misunderstandings of Asian Americans by disrupting "customary" discourse and disputing "familiar" knowledge. The chapters in this anthology…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Asian American Students, Grade 10, Mathematics Achievement
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Ngo, Bic; Lee, Stacey J. – Review of Educational Research, 2007
Similar to other Asian American students, Southeast Asian American students are often stereotyped by the popular press as hardworking and high-achieving model minorities. On the other hand, Southeast Asian American youth are also depicted as low-achieving high school dropouts involved in gangs. The realities of academic performance and persistence…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Academic Achievement, Educational Experience, Asian American Students
Park, Clara C., Ed.; Endo, Russell, Ed.; Lee, Stacey J., Ed.; Rong, Xue Lan, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2007
This research anthology is the fourth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG-REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education. This series explores and explains the lived experiences of Asian…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Acculturation, Asian American Students, High School Students
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Ngo, Bic – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2002
Investigated the meaning of early marriage among Hmong American female college students. Interview and observation data attested to the complexity of the meaning of early marriage in the Hmong American community. Results refuted explanations of cultural difference as underlying early marriage and indicated that early marriage was an expression of…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, College Students, Cultural Differences, Females
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Ng, Franklin – Amerasia Journal, 1993
The history of the Hmong people of Southeast Asia is based mainly on oral traditions, and until recent decades there was no written Hmong language. With the introduction of writing, a new view of history is beginning to emerge, as demonstrated by college student term papers. (SLD)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, College Students, Folk Culture, Higher Education
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Franzoi, Stephen L.; Chang, Zoua – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2002
This study investigated race and gender differences among 73 Hmong American and 80 Caucasian American college students. Racial differences were found only among the women, with Hmong women holding more positive attitudes toward weight concern body items and expressing less interest in changing these body items than Caucasian women. There were no…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Females, Hmong People, Young Adults