Description: Challenges existing paradigms of knowledge as they relate to Asian Americans.
Brief description: Laura Uba is a lecturer at California State University, Northridge. She is the author of Asian Americans: Personality Patterns, Identity, and Mental Health and coauthor, with Karen Huang, of Psychology.
Review Quotes:
"...probes researchers' power to create and limit reality and provides moving narratives illustrating the knowledge obtained by hearing the voices, and perspectives, of study participants themselves. Uba's arguments are compelling." -- CHOICE
"Laura Uba writes with a grace and passion that engages the reader in a way that challenges our existing paradigms of understanding knowledge as it pertains to Asian Americans. She convincingly describes how the Enlightenment view of science was born in a context of viewing Euro-Americans as 'normal' and ethnic minority groups as 'other, ' and how this attitudinal perspective has shaped scientific method and theory of 'other.' Uba offers numerous examples that help explain complex constructs." -- Christine J. Yeh, Teachers College, Columbia University
"This book is very significant and may lead to the evelopment of new methods and areas of study for Asian Americans." -- Gayle Y. Iwamasa, University of Indianapolis