Summary
The days when racial dialogue in the United States was limited to a discussion of black and white are through. As the twenty-first century dawns, the Asian-American population is growing at a faster rate than any other demographic, increasing by 48% throughout the 1990s and altering the nature of American color politics forever. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
Publishers Weekly Review
Beginning with a recap of his childhood bewilderment with the paltry selection of appealing Asian characters in 1970s American pop culture, Frank H. Wu, associate professor at the Howard University School of Law, describes the alienation experienced by Asian-Americans in the 20th-century in Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White. An activist and journalist (the Washington Post, the Nation, the L.A. Times, etc.), Wu discusses key moments and phenomena in Asian-American history: the WWII internment camps, the 1992 L.A. riots, the "model minority myth," the virulent anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S. during the 1980s' recession (exemplified by the murder of a Chinese American engineer by two white auto workers, fined $3,780 for the crime) and periodic fads involving "Asian-ness" in American media. His sobering, astute, compelling investigation locates the particulars of Asian-American experience with racism in this country's spectrum of ethnic and cultural prejudice. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From: Reed Elsevier Inc.
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Author Biography
Frank H. Wu is the first Asian American to serve as a law professor at Howard University Law School. He has written for a range of publications including The Washington Post, The L.A. Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Nation, and writes a regular column for Asian Week. Wu participated in a major debate against Dinesh D'Souza on affirmative action that was televised on C-Span and was the host of the syndicated talk show Asian America on PBS. He lives in Washington, DC Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
Table of Contents
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1 East Is East, East Is West: Asians as Americans |
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2 The Model Minority: Asian American "Success" as a Race Relations Failure |
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3 The Perpetual Foreigner: Yellow Peril in the Pacific Century |
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4 Neither Black Nor White: Affirmative Action and Asian Americans |
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5 True But Wrong: New Arguments Against New Discrimination |
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