TY - JOUR
T1 - "I'm Khmer and I'm not a gangster!"
T2 - The problematization of Cambodian male youth in US schools
AU - Chhuon, Vichet
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Asian American education
KW - Cambodian students
KW - critical discourse analysis
KW - urban male youth
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U2 - 10.1080/09518398.2012.758788
DO - 10.1080/09518398.2012.758788
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84891346858
SN - 0951-8398
VL - 27
SP - 233
EP - 250
JO - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
JF - International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
IS - 2
ER -