pbiWinner, 2022 Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship, given by the American Sociological Association's Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Workib pbiWinner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Business, Finance Management Categoryib pbA behind-the-scenes examination of Asian Americans in the workplaceb pIn the classroom, Asian Americans, often singled out as so-called model minorities, are expected to be top of the class. Often they are, getting straight As and gaining admission to elite colleges and universities. But the corporate world is a different story. As Margaret M. Chin reveals in this important new book, many Asian Americans get stuck on the corporate ladder, never reaching the top. pIn iStucki, Chin shows that there is a bamboo ceiling in the workplace, describing a corporate world where racial and ethnic inequalities prevent upward mobility. Drawing on interviews with second-generation Asian Americans, she examines why they fail to advance as fast or as high as their c