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3 books match the query 'Whitmore, John K.'
Children of the Boat People
A Study of Educational SuccessNathan Caplan, Marcella H. Choy, and John K. Whitmore
University of Michigan Press, 1991
A study of the educational success of children from Southeast Asian refugee families in the United States. This study is probing and eminently readable. Analysis is united with the personal experiences of the refugees, who speak movingly for themselves. The book is valuable on several levels--as a concise, holistic view of the refugee experience, as a compelling argument for the importance of family and culture as foundations for educational success, and as a provocative comment on the state of American education. It provides insight into the nature and characteristics of many of America's newest citizens and, as such, further illuminates a primary element in the fabric of American society.
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Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History
The Origins of Southeast Asian StatecraftKenneth R. Hall and John K. Whitmore, Editors
University of Michigan Press, 1976
While following the probes of foreign individuals into various obscure parts of Southeast Asia over the centuries is a diverting and entertaining pastime, the purpose of this volume is to investigate this past with the mind, to question and postulate upon the historical patterns that have developed from earlier study of the area, and to bring concepts from other areas and disciplines to bear on the existing information. The product of this effort, as it is encompassed in this volume, is not an attempt at the definitive study of any of the topics. It is rather a series of speculations on the directions feasible for the further study of the Southeast Asian past. As such, the answers proposed in these essays are really questions. Are the ideas presented here true within the specific historical contexts for which they have been developed? If so, can we use these ideas, or variations of them, to interpret the history of other parts of Southeast Asia? If not, what other ideas may be brought to bear on these situations in order to understand them? The ultimate aim of this volume is thus a challenge to the profession at large not only to criticize what we have done, but also to go beyond our postulations and create new ones. [xi]
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The Boat People and Achievement in America
A Study of Family Life, Hard Work, and Cultural ValuesNathan Caplan, John K. Whitmore, and Marcella H. Choy
University of Michigan Press, 1989
During the late 1970s hundreds of thousands of people from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos began their flight out of their homelands. Most left by sea. In emigrating to the United States, these Boat People faced extraordinary cultural, material, and psychological obstacles. In the face of these impediments to success, their rapid economic and educational achievements provide one of the most intriguing success stories of our time. In The Boat People and Achievement in America, Caplan, Whitmore, and Choy report on five years of research on the Indochinese Boat People. Two rounds of surveys conducted in Seattle, Orange County, Chicago, Houston, and Boston provide the empirical basis of this study. The cultural values, family milieu, and psychological characteristics that account for the successes of the Boat People in this country are examined. Extensive quotations from the refugees themselves provide personal insights into their backgrounds and resettlement experiences, and add an important anthropological dimension to the study. Their findings have implications for the whole question of achievement in America.
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