Elevating First-Generation Asian American Voices: Racial Identity and College Experience

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 11:40 am Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Supporting Marginalized Identities in Higher Education (Table 13)

Abstract

In higher education, Asian Americans remain under-researched and subsequentially misrepresented. Prominent studies on first-generation college students also exclude the experiences of Asian American students. Through semi-structured interviews, this study explores the experience of first-generation Asian American college students and how these students make sense of their college-going and racial identities.

Author

• Belle Lee, University of California - Los Angeles