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A review by moreteamorecats
The Asian American Achievement Paradox by Jennifer Lee, Min Zhou
4.0
I thank the authors, profusely, for giving me the new term "success frame". It's all but self-explanatory, and it instantly clarifies certain kinds of conversations.
Their sociological narrative is tight and fascinating, and I won't summarize it any better than they did themselves in the description. One crucial point that should have been obvious to me, but wasn't, because privilege: The Asian American success frame's emphasis on quantitative fields is a direct response to White supremacy. "One plus one always equals two," one child remembers their mother saying. The STEM and medical professions really are better at letting the hardest and smartest workers rise to the top, because their objective foundations resist bias.
Their sociological narrative is tight and fascinating, and I won't summarize it any better than they did themselves in the description. One crucial point that should have been obvious to me, but wasn't, because privilege: The Asian American success frame's emphasis on quantitative fields is a direct response to White supremacy. "One plus one always equals two," one child remembers their mother saying. The STEM and medical professions really are better at letting the hardest and smartest workers rise to the top, because their objective foundations resist bias.