Yellow: race in America beyond black and white

Abstract

A leading voice in America's Asian community tackles what it means to be Asian American today.. In tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and other public intellectuals who confronted color line of twentieth century, journalist, law professor, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect race relations in new century.Often provocative and always thoughtful, this book addresses some of most controversial contemporary issues: discrimination, immigration, diversity, globalization, and mixed-race movement, introducing example of Asian Americans to shed new light on current debates. Combining personal anecdotes, social-science research, legal cases, history, and original journalistic reporting, Wu discusses damaging Asian American stereotypes such as the model minority and the perpetual foreigner. By offering new ways of thinking about race in American society, Wu's work challenges us to make good on our great democratic experiment.