Brown Voices

Brown Voices for schools

Brown Voices: South Asian American Experiences in Schools is based on Dr. Punita Rice’s research with 85 South Asian American adults about their K–12 years. Here is what a school needs to read it together.

Copies for your staff

Ten paperbacks per order, with the free Reader’s Guide.

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PD Toolkit

Ready-to-run professional development sessions, staff handouts, and two high school lessons. Licensed to one school.

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School Kit

Ten paperbacks and a PD Toolkit license for one school.

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District license

The PD Toolkit for every school in one district.

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Brown Voices Reader’s Guide

Discussion questions for every chapter, reading schedules for book clubs and staff reading groups, and pages for families and college courses. Free.

  1. Who Are Brown Kids?
  2. Between Two Worlds
  3. Teachers
  4. Overt Racism
  5. Microaggressions
  6. Disconnect
  7. The Model Minority Myth
  8. The Problem with the Myth
  9. Teachers and the Myth
  10. The Myth and Support Needs
  11. Implications for Teachers and Other Educators
  12. Implications for Teacher Training Design
  13. Beyond the Classroom: Schools, Families, and Policy

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What the research found

Dr. Punita Rice’s doctoral research at Johns Hopkins University surveyed 85 South Asian American adults about their K–12 years. Looking back on school:

  • 77.7% felt teachers assumed they were smarter than students from other cultural or racial groups.
  • 68.2% agreed that teachers assumed they needed less academic support than their peers.
  • 64.6% agreed that teachers assumed they needed less help with time management and organization.
  • 72.9% felt teachers did not understand them, their cultural identities, or their backgrounds.
  • 51.8% felt teachers grouped them with other Asian American subgroups.

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