From the New York Times:
In “The Asian American Achievement Paradox,” which I wrote with Min Zhou and is based on 162 interviews of Asian, Hispanic, Black and white adults in Los Angeles, we found that Asian American precollege students benefit from “stereotype promise”: Teachers assume they are smart, hard-working, high-achieving and morally deserving, which can boost the grades of academically mediocre Asian American students.
Let’s stop right there. The coauthors attempt to explain the average educational success of “Asian Americans,” a classification that includes dozens of ethnic/national subgroups that have varying average degress of educational success (including some that are below average), who live all over the United States, based on *162 interviews* with adults of various “racial” groups in one city, Los Angeles.
The book won various awards. Go figure.
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