NEGOTIATING RACE, NAVIGATING SCHOOL: SITUATING HMONG AMERICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENT EXPERIENCES BY CHRISTIN A. DEPOUW B.A., University of Wisconsin La Crosse, 1996 M.Ed., University of Wisconsin La Crosse, 2000 DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Education in the College of Education of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006 Urbana, Illinois Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.