Ma. Glenda Lopez Wui is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University.Cameron White, PhD, is an independent scholar.

Not since Ronald Takaki gave us a glimpse into a Different Mirror has a book spoken with clarity and consciousness about Asian American experiences as students and citizens in our schools and communities. Ma. Glenda Lopez Wui and Cameron S. White’s book is a much-needed voice of civic vision, values, and indeed virtues articulated through the lived stories of Asian Americans whose contributions to economic, social/cultural, political, and environmental issues have too often been marginalized in the telling of the American story past and present. Without a doubt, Civic Engagement of Asian American Student Leaders is a book that will illuminate our future understanding of the important impact of individual and collective Asian American contributions to the foundations of our local and global civic institutions.

• Chapter 1: Why Asian American Youth Civic Engagement? Chapter 2: Civic Engagement: Definition, Benefits, and InfluencesChapter 3: The Research Setting, Participants, and MethodsChapter 4: “I know I created something; I change something for the better”: How and Why They Became Civically EngagedChapter 5: “The biggest impact that my parents had on me was the teachings of  how to be a decent human being:” Influences of Family, School and Community on Civic EngagementChapter 6: “I could not do anything at all and go to school, make great scores, but that's not what I want to do”: Challenges of and Coping with the Demands of Civic Engagement Chapter 7: “When people look at me and they see a small Asian girl, they don’t think,she is the president of the organization”: Impact of Being Asian American on Civic Engagement and Future PlansChapter 8: Civic Engagement as Empowerment: Discussion and Conclusion

Ma. Glenda Lopez Wui is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University.Cameron White, PhD, is an independent scholar.

Not since Ronald Takaki gave us a glimpse into a Different Mirror has a book spoken with clarity and consciousness about Asian American experiences as students and citizens in our schools and communities. Ma. Glenda Lopez Wui and Cameron S. White’s book is a much-needed voice of civic vision, values, and indeed virtues articulated through the lived stories of Asian Americans whose contributions to economic, social/cultural, political, and environmental issues have too often been marginalized in the telling of the American story past and present. Without a doubt, Civic Engagement of Asian American Student Leaders is a book that will illuminate our future understanding of the important impact of individual and collective Asian American contributions to the foundations of our local and global civic institutions.

• Chapter 1: Why Asian American Youth Civic Engagement? Chapter 2: Civic Engagement: Definition, Benefits, and InfluencesChapter 3: The Research Setting, Participants, and MethodsChapter 4: “I know I created something; I change something for the better”: How and Why They Became Civically EngagedChapter 5: “The biggest impact that my parents had on me was the teachings of  how to be a decent human being:” Influences of Family, School and Community on Civic EngagementChapter 6: “I could not do anything at all and go to school, make great scores, but that's not what I want to do”: Challenges of and Coping with the Demands of Civic Engagement Chapter 7: “When people look at me and they see a small Asian girl, they don’t think,she is the president of the organization”: Impact of Being Asian American on Civic Engagement and Future PlansChapter 8: Civic Engagement as Empowerment: Discussion and Conclusion

Ma. Glenda Lopez Wui is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University.Cameron White, PhD, is an independent scholar.

Not since Ronald Takaki gave us a glimpse into a Different Mirror has a book spoken with clarity and consciousness about Asian American experiences as students and citizens in our schools and communities. Ma. Glenda Lopez Wui and Cameron S. White’s book is a much-needed voice of civic vision, values, and indeed virtues articulated through the lived stories of Asian Americans whose contributions to economic, social/cultural, political, and environmental issues have too often been marginalized in the telling of the American story past and present. Without a doubt, Civic Engagement of Asian American Student Leaders is a book that will illuminate our future understanding of the important impact of individual and collective Asian American contributions to the foundations of our local and global civic institutions.

• Chapter 1: Why Asian American Youth Civic Engagement? Chapter 2: Civic Engagement: Definition, Benefits, and InfluencesChapter 3: The Research Setting, Participants, and MethodsChapter 4: “I know I created something; I change something for the better”: How and Why They Became Civically EngagedChapter 5: “The biggest impact that my parents had on me was the teachings of  how to be a decent human being:” Influences of Family, School and Community on Civic EngagementChapter 6: “I could not do anything at all and go to school, make great scores, but that's not what I want to do”: Challenges of and Coping with the Demands of Civic Engagement Chapter 7: “When people look at me and they see a small Asian girl, they don’t think,she is the president of the organization”: Impact of Being Asian American on Civic Engagement and Future PlansChapter 8: Civic Engagement as Empowerment: Discussion and Conclusion