Lau v. Nichols and Chinese American Language Rights: The Sunrise and Sunset of Bilingual Education

Highlights the first-person narratives of key stakeholders of the landmark Lau v. Nichols case.

This book employs a narrative policy portraiture approach to recenter the stories of the Chinese community involved in the Lau v. Nichols court case of 1974. This seminal Supreme Court case ruled that the failure to provide adequate and accessible instruction to approximately 1800 students of Chinese ancestry denied them the opportunity to participate in public education and constituted a discrimi...