The current issue of the Ethnic and Racial Studies journal contains a symposium on the RSF book The Asian American Achievement Paradox by Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou. The symposium is available in full online, and includes reviews from five leading sociologists, plus a response by authors Lee and Zhou.

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The Asian American Achievement Paradox, published in 2015, is the winner of three Section Awards from the American Sociological Association. In the book, Lee and Zhou offer a compelling account of the academic achievement of the children of Asian immigrants—which pundits have long attributed to unique cultural values. Drawing on in-depth interviews with the adult children of Chinese immigrants and Vietnamese refugees and survey data, Lee and Zhou bridge sociology and social psychology to correct this myth and explain how immigration laws, institutions, and culture interact to foster high achievement among certain Asian American groups.

The Ethnic and Racial Studies symposium on The Asian American Achievement Paradox will be available online for free until the end of 2016. Click here to view the articles in full.