Compelled to Excel or Markets in Motion

Compelled to Excel: Immigration, Education, and Opportunity among Chinese Americans

Author: Vivian S Loui

In the contemporary American imagination, Asian Americans are considered the quintessential immigrant success story, a powerful example of how the culture of immigrant families—rather than their race or class—matters in education and upward mobility. Drawing on extensive interviews with second-generation Chinese Americans attending Hunter College, a public commuter institution, and Columbia University, an elite Ivy League school, Vivian Louie challenges the idea that race and class do not matter. Though most Chinese immigrant families see higher education as a necessary safeguard against potential racial discrimination, Louie finds that class differences do indeed shape the students’ different paths to college.

How do second-generation Chinese Americans view their college plans? And how do they see their incorporation into American life? In addressing these questions, Louie finds that the views and experiences of Chinese Americans have much to do with the opportunities, challenges, and contradictions that all immigrants and their children confront in the United States.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	Family journeys to America
1	Mainstream, suburban America	1
2	Urban, ethnic-enclave America	16
Pt. 2	How children make sense of education : a family matter
3	Ethnic culture, immigration, and race in America	37
4	Cultures-in-transition : gender and migration	64
5	"Ending up" at Hunter	83
6	A place at Columbia	104
Pt. 3	The second-generation experience
7	Parental sacrifice and the obligations of children	123
8	Second-generation identities	146
	Conclusion : looking toward the future : a raceless world or a world divided by race?	164

Interesting book: The e Learning Handbook or Parsing Techniques

Markets in Motion: A Financial Market History: 1900 to 2004

Author: Ned Davis

Markets in Motion is a graphical overview of the economic conditions and events that have influenced the U.S. stock market since 1900. Decade by decade, you'll examine how different economic and policitcal environments can be directly correlated to stock market movements. Each decade features graphs displaying the performance of the Dow Jones Average, the Dow Jones price to dividend ratio, industrial production, money supply, consumer price index, T bill rate, and the Discount rate. Embedded on the graphs are short descriptions of important political, economic, and historical events. Use this information to reference similar environments today and gain an edge in determining the future direction of the market.