ERIC Number: EJ1025860
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 18
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"I'm Khmer and I'm Not a Gangster!": The Problematization of Cambodian Male Youth in US Schools
Chhuon, Vichet
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v27 n2 p233-250 2014
In response to a literature that has paid limited attention to the complex representations of Cambodian students, this article investigated the ways in which Cambodian male youth were problematized in school through Discourses that presented them as apathetic students and/or gang members at one California high school. In this study, the ways in which race, gender, and class collided in the school experiences of Cambodian boys manifested themselves in troubling representations that deflected attention away from the school's failure to teach these young men. For these negative representations to work, it was necessary to position Cambodian boys in contrast to more positive depictions of other students' racial (whites and "East Asians"), class (non-"ghetto"), and gender (good Cambodian girls) categories. Overall, this study contributes an important dimension for understanding the education of Asian American urban male students, particularly Cambodian youth.
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Males, Social Bias, Negative Attitudes, Urban Areas, Urban Schools, High School Students, Dropouts, Juvenile Gangs, Discourse Analysis, Cambodians, Ethnic Stereotypes, Self Concept, Immigrants, Social Class, Educational Experience, Acculturation, Participant Observation, Expectation, Racial Differences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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