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Higher education hails Asian American students as model minorities who face no educational barriers given their purported cultural values of hard work and political passivity. Described as “over-represented,” Asian Americans have been overlooked in discussions about diversity; however, racial hostility continues to affect Asian American students, and they have actively challenged their invisibility in minority student discussions. This study details the history of Asian American student activism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as students rejected the university’s definition of minority student needs that relied on a model minority myth, measures of under-representation, and a Black-White racial model, concepts that made them an “unseen unheard minority.” This activism led to the creation on campus of one of the largest Asian American Studies programs and Asian American cultural centers in the Midwest. Their histories reveal the limitations of understanding minority student needs solely along measures of under-representation and the realities of race for Asian American college students.

Asian American college students --- Social conditions. --- Asian, American, model minority, diversity, education, model minority myth, under-representation, black-white, Asian American Studies, race, Asian college students, student services, higher education, cultural values, political passivity.

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Some social issues and practices have become dangerous areas for academics to research and write about. ‘Academic freedom’ is increasingly constrained, not just by long established ‘normal’ factors (territoriality, power differentials, competition, protectionism), but also by the increased significance of social media and the rise of identity politics (and activists who treat work which challenges their world view as abusive hate-speech). So extreme are these pressures that some institutions and even statutory bodies now adopt policies and practices which contravene relevant regulations and laws. This book seeks to draw attention to the limiting and damaging effects of academic ‘gagging’. The book, drawn from a special edition of Societies, offers an eclectic series of international articles which may annoy some people. The book challenges taken for granted mainstream assumptions and practices in a number of areas, including gender mainstreaming, social work education, child sexual abuse, the ethnic disaggregation of population groups, fatherhood and masculinity, the erosion of democratic legitimacy, the trap of victimhood and vulnerability, employment practices in universities, and the challenges presented by the widespread and deliberate suppression of scholarship and research. In an analytic postscript Laurent Dubreuil discusses the nature of identity politics and the manner in which its effects can be identified across the many topics covered in these challenging articles.

Early Childhood Education and Care --- child sexual abuse --- prevention policies --- no touch --- teacher–child relationships --- male childcare workers --- stigma --- discrimination --- fear --- panopticon --- moral panic --- Brazilian academia --- interviewing for faculty positions --- Lattes CV --- meritocracy --- criminalisation --- harm --- law --- criminal justice --- freedom --- risk --- abuse --- liberal --- victim --- vulnerability --- critical thinking --- identity politics --- academic freedom --- free speech --- victimhood --- anti-discriminatory practice --- neoliberalism --- shadow management --- new public management --- ombudsman --- rule of law --- transparency --- higher education --- body journal --- Coronavirus --- corporal identity --- narratives --- pandemic --- parenthood --- clan --- academic taboo --- Sweden --- state --- postcolonialism --- research methods --- disparity --- disaggregating data --- Asian Americans --- disability --- mental health --- model minority myth --- free inquiry --- censorship --- conformity --- moral panics --- witch hunts --- heresy --- gender mainstreaming --- Lehrfreiheit --- university autonomy --- UNESCO

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Some social issues and practices have become dangerous areas for academics to research and write about. ‘Academic freedom’ is increasingly constrained, not just by long established ‘normal’ factors (territoriality, power differentials, competition, protectionism), but also by the increased significance of social media and the rise of identity politics (and activists who treat work which challenges their world view as abusive hate-speech). So extreme are these pressures that some institutions and even statutory bodies now adopt policies and practices which contravene relevant regulations and laws. This book seeks to draw attention to the limiting and damaging effects of academic ‘gagging’. The book, drawn from a special edition of Societies, offers an eclectic series of international articles which may annoy some people. The book challenges taken for granted mainstream assumptions and practices in a number of areas, including gender mainstreaming, social work education, child sexual abuse, the ethnic disaggregation of population groups, fatherhood and masculinity, the erosion of democratic legitimacy, the trap of victimhood and vulnerability, employment practices in universities, and the challenges presented by the widespread and deliberate suppression of scholarship and research. In an analytic postscript Laurent Dubreuil discusses the nature of identity politics and the manner in which its effects can be identified across the many topics covered in these challenging articles.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- Early Childhood Education and Care --- child sexual abuse --- prevention policies --- no touch --- teacher–child relationships --- male childcare workers --- stigma --- discrimination --- fear --- panopticon --- moral panic --- Brazilian academia --- interviewing for faculty positions --- Lattes CV --- meritocracy --- criminalisation --- harm --- law --- criminal justice --- freedom --- risk --- abuse --- liberal --- victim --- vulnerability --- critical thinking --- identity politics --- academic freedom --- free speech --- victimhood --- anti-discriminatory practice --- neoliberalism --- shadow management --- new public management --- ombudsman --- rule of law --- transparency --- higher education --- body journal --- Coronavirus --- corporal identity --- narratives --- pandemic --- parenthood --- clan --- academic taboo --- Sweden --- state --- postcolonialism --- research methods --- disparity --- disaggregating data --- Asian Americans --- disability --- mental health --- model minority myth --- free inquiry --- censorship --- conformity --- moral panics --- witch hunts --- heresy --- gender mainstreaming --- Lehrfreiheit --- university autonomy --- UNESCO