ABOUT THE AUTHORS Nicholas D. Hartlep 고모일 is an-award winning Assistant Professor of Urban Education at Metropolitan State University. He taught at Illinois State University for four years. Prior to that, he was an Advanced Opportunity Program Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an “Urban 13” University, where he earned his Ph.D. in the Social Foundations of Urban Education and was named an “Outstanding Doctoral Student.” Dr. Hartlep also has a Master of Science Degree in K–12 Education and Bachelor of Science Degree in Teaching, both conferred from Winona State University (Winona, MN). As a former public school teacher he has taught in Rochester, Minnesota and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as well as abroad in Quito, Ecuador. Dr. Hartlep’s research interests include urban in-service teachers’ dispositions, the impact neoliberalism is having on schools and society, the model minority stereotype of Asian/Americans, and transracial adoption. His interest in transracial adoption stems from the fact that he was adopted from Seoul, South Korea when he was approximately 16 months old. In 2011, Dr. Hartlep received a scholarship from the Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link (GOA’L) that allowed him to return to Korea to see where he was born. He received the University Research Initiative (URI) Award in 2015 from Illinois State University. In 2015 he was named a Distinguished Young Alumnus by Winona State University. His scholarly books include Going Public: Critical Race Theory & Issues of Social Justice (2010), The Model Minority Stereotype: Demystifying Asian American Success (2013), Unhooking from Whiteness: The Key to Dismantling Racism in the United States (2013), The Model Minority Stereotype Reader: Critical and Challenging Readings for the 21st Century (2014), Killing the Model Minority Stereotype: Asian American Counterstories and Complicity (2015), The Assault on Communities of Color: Exploring the Realities of Race-Based Violence (2015), Modern Societal Impacts of the Model Minority Stereotype (2015), Unhooking from Whiteness: Resisting the Esprit de Corps (2016), and Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime: The Model Minority as Victim and Perpetrator (2016). You can follow his work on Twitter @nhartlep or at the “Model Minority Stereotype Project” at www.nicholashartlep.com 89 About the AUTHORS Daniel P. Scott is an educator in the Austin Independent School District in Austin, Texas. Prior to that, he served as an infantryman in the 82nd Airborne Division. Mr. Scott has a Master of Science Degree in History from Illinois State University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from Valparaiso University. His research interests include the geopolitical significance of Asia during the Cold War, the impact of American civil religion during the Cold War, segregation and internment in America 1941–1947, and the impact of neo-conservatism in the creation of social studies curricula. Mr. Scott was named runner-up for the Helen M. Cavanagh Award (the award is given to the top master’s student at ISU) in 2015. FOREWORD AUTHOR Guofang Li 李国芳 is a Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Transnational/Global Perspectives of Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Canada. Her recent research interests are longitudinal studies of immigrant children’s bicultural and bi-literacy development through the educational systems, immigrant children’s new literacies practices in and out of school, technology-infused ESL/EFL instructional approaches, diversity and equity issues, and teacher education and professional development for culturally and linguistically diverse children and youth. As one of the leading scholars in the field of second language and literacy education, Li has published 12 books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters in English and Chinese, and presented over 100 papers worldwide. Li is the recipient of numerous national and international awards including the 2013 and 2006 Ed Fry Book Award of the Literary Research Association (LRA) (formerly the National Reading Conference), the 2011 Publication Award from ACPSS, the 2010 Early Career Award at American Educational Research Association (AERA), and the 2008 Division G Early Career Award of AERA. AFTERWORD AUTHOR Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영 is a licensed educator in Minnesota, has a master’s degree in teaching from University of St. Thomas, and a bachelor’s degree in English from Macalester College. In addition to being a full-time high school English teacher for over a decade, she is an experienced instructor at the college level. She is the editor of the 2016 anthology A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota from Minnesota Historical Society Press 90.