Asian Americans in Higher Education: Charting New Realities -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter Summaries and Outline -- Defining "Asian American" -- Research Literature on Race and Asian America -- Race as a Social Construct -- Critical Race Theory and Asian Crit -- Limitations of the Review and Analysis -- Historical Overview of the Model Minority Concept -- Are Asian Americans Considered Racial Minorities in Higher Education? -- The Various Shades of the Yellow Peril -- The Modern "Model Minority" Emerges -- The Model Minority Goes to School -- Asian Americans and the Educational Pipeline: Tenuous Citizenship -- Asian American Access to the Educational Pipeline -- Tape v. Hurley (1885) -- Aoki v. Deane (1907) -- Lum v. Rice (1927) -- Higher Education and Segregation -- Asian American Demands for Equal Representation in Higher Education -- Affirmative Action and Asian American Admissions -- Affirmative Action Defined -- Affirmative Action Toward the Turn of the Century: (Re)Defining Merit -- Negative Action Versus Affirmative Action -- The Model Minority Goes to Court: The Impact of Bakke, Gratz, Grutter, and Fisher -- Affirmative Action in Contemporary Asian America -- Potential Implications of the Fisher Ruling -- Influential Factors in the Asian American and Pacific Islander College Student Experience -- Campus Climate -- Identity Development -- Family and Intergenerational Concerns -- Mental Health -- Leadership and Involvement -- College Choice -- Community College -- The Emergence of Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs) -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Recommendations for Future Research: Purposeful Disaggregation of Data -- Multiracial AAPIs -- Research Beyond the Model Minority -- Implications for Policy.

Implications for Practice -- Challenges Looming on the Horizon: Conflation of AAPI College Students and Asian International Undergraduates -- Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- About the Authors -- About the ASHE Higher Education Report Series -- Call for Proposals -- Order Form.