SHARON S. LEE is a teaching assistant professor in education policy, organization, and leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

“This timely and interesting study of Asian American activism in the Midwest asserts that the model minority myth led to Asian American students’ exclusion from protected minority status even though they still faced discrimination on and off campus.” - Stephanie Hinnershitz (author of A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South) “Lee presents a vibrant history of Asian American college students in the Midwest—far from typical Asian American population centers—and how they forged their own agenda for racial justice.” - OiYan Poon (Colorado State University)

• Select Timeline of Asian American Student Activism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)List of AbbreviationsForeword by Joy Williamson- LottPrefaceIntroduction: The Invisibility of Asian Americans in Higher Education Diversity Discussions1: The Historiography of Asian American College Students2: Making Noise in the Background: Asian American Students at Illinois, 1968-19753: We are Not Model Minorities: A New Asian American Student Movement, 1975-19924: We are Minorities: The Fight for Asian American Studies and Student Services, 1992-19965: Seeing and Hearing Asian American StudentsList of Oral history InterviewsAcknowledgmentsSelect BibliographyIndex

SHARON S. LEE is a teaching assistant professor in education policy, organization, and leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

“This timely and interesting study of Asian American activism in the Midwest asserts that the model minority myth led to Asian American students’ exclusion from protected minority status even though they still faced discrimination on and off campus.” - Stephanie Hinnershitz (author of A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South) “Lee presents a vibrant history of Asian American college students in the Midwest—far from typical Asian American population centers—and how they forged their own agenda for racial justice.” - OiYan Poon (Colorado State University)

• Select Timeline of Asian American Student Activism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)List of AbbreviationsForeword by Joy Williamson- LottPrefaceIntroduction: The Invisibility of Asian Americans in Higher Education Diversity Discussions1: The Historiography of Asian American College Students2: Making Noise in the Background: Asian American Students at Illinois, 1968-19753: We are Not Model Minorities: A New Asian American Student Movement, 1975-19924: We are Minorities: The Fight for Asian American Studies and Student Services, 1992-19965: Seeing and Hearing Asian American StudentsList of Oral history InterviewsAcknowledgmentsSelect BibliographyIndex

SHARON S. LEE is a teaching assistant professor in education policy, organization, and leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

“This timely and interesting study of Asian American activism in the Midwest asserts that the model minority myth led to Asian American students’ exclusion from protected minority status even though they still faced discrimination on and off campus.” - Stephanie Hinnershitz (author of A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South) “Lee presents a vibrant history of Asian American college students in the Midwest—far from typical Asian American population centers—and how they forged their own agenda for racial justice.” - OiYan Poon (Colorado State University)

• Select Timeline of Asian American Student Activism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)List of AbbreviationsForeword by Joy Williamson- LottPrefaceIntroduction: The Invisibility of Asian Americans in Higher Education Diversity Discussions1: The Historiography of Asian American College Students2: Making Noise in the Background: Asian American Students at Illinois, 1968-19753: We are Not Model Minorities: A New Asian American Student Movement, 1975-19924: We are Minorities: The Fight for Asian American Studies and Student Services, 1992-19965: Seeing and Hearing Asian American StudentsList of Oral history InterviewsAcknowledgmentsSelect BibliographyIndex