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From Narrative Scarcity to Research Plenitude for Asian Americans

Jennifer Lee, Karthick Ramakrishnan
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences April 2021, 7 (2) 1-20; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2021.7.2.01
Jennifer Lee
aJulian Clarence Levi Professor of Social Sciences at Columbia University, United States
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bProfessor of public policy and political science at University of California, Riverside, United States
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