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Nancy Abelmann's unmatched gifts--a fierce intelligence, a hand that writes like the angels, and an empathetic sensibility uncommon in her field--are put to marvelous use in The Intimate University. This book is both a brilliant achievement and a gift to everyone struggling to understand the kind of world birthed after three decades of unprecedented global migration. While the subjects here are Korean American university students in the Midwest, the lessons we are taught are transcendent. I am ordering an extra copy today to send to President Barack Obama. --Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Ross University Professor and Co-Director of Immigration Studies, New York University The Intimate University tells an emotionally charged story of Korean American life on and off the campus of a large public research university in the American Midwest. It dispels the myths and stereotypes about Asian Americans through the different voices of college students, their parents and relatives, and with the author's nuanced analysis and culturally sensitive interpretation. --Min Zhou, author of Contemporary Chinese America Nancy Abelmann brings to light the oft-hidden maneuverings that Asian Americans have to perform in schools as students of color and, at the same time, students whose color 'does not count' by virtue of their alleged overrepresentation or overachievement. The Intimate University is an incisive and provocative account of university schooling as a site for navigating the intricacies and contradictions of race, immigration, community formation, and identity. --Rick Bonus, author of Locating Filipino Americans Nancy Abelmann's stunning portrait of Korean American university life will cause us to rethink our understanding of multiculturalism and diversity in the academy. This valuable and sobering account of one minority group's experience also speaks more broadly to the intersection of race, religion, and identity, revealing the paradoxical notions on which American diversity is based. Don't miss this book! --Cathy Small, aka Rebekah Nathan, author of My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

"""Nancy Abelmann's unmatched gifts--a fierce intelligence, a hand that writes like the angels, and an empathetic sensibility uncommon in her field--are put to marvelous use in The Intimate University. This book is both a brilliant achievement and a gift to everyone struggling to understand the kind of world birthed after three decades of unprecedented global migration. While the subjects here are Korean American university students in the Midwest, the lessons we are taught are transcendent. I am ordering an extra copy today to send to President Barack Obama."" --Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Ross University Professor and Co-Director of Immigration Studies, New York University ""The Intimate University tells an emotionally charged story of Korean American life on and off the campus of a large public research university in the American Midwest. It dispels the myths and stereotypes about Asian Americans through the different voices of college students, their parents and relatives, and with the author's nuanced analysis and culturally sensitive interpretation.""--Min Zhou, author of Contemporary Chinese America ""Nancy Abelmann brings to light the oft-hidden maneuverings that Asian Americans have to perform in schools as students of color and, at the same time, students whose color 'does not count' by virtue of their alleged overrepresentation or overachievement. The Intimate University is an incisive and provocative account of university schooling as a site for navigating the intricacies and contradictions of race, immigration, community formation, and identity.""--Rick Bonus, author of Locating Filipino Americans ""Nancy Abelmann's stunning portrait of Korean American university life will cause us to rethink our understanding of multiculturalism and diversity in the academy. This valuable and sobering account of one minority group's experience also speaks more broadly to the intersection of race, religion, and identity, revealing the paradoxical notions on which American diversity is based. Don't miss this book!""--Cathy Small, aka Rebekah Nathan, author of My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student"

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Nancy Abelmann is the Harry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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