A leading voice in America's Asian community tackles what it means to be Asian American in contemporary America. Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect race relati...
A leading voice in America's Asian community tackles what it means to be Asian American in contemporary America. Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect race relations in the twenty-first century. Wu examines affirmative action, globalization, immigration, and other controversial contemporary issues through the lens of the Asian-American experience. Mixing personal anecdotes, legal cases, and journalistic reporting, Wu confronts 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 dares us to make good on our great democratic experiment.
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... I was coming to my knowledge as an Asian American through books, but is was through self-study, because all of my teachers, even in quality public schools, had neglected to mention any facet of Asian American experiences. When I started to come across Asian Americans in college, I was shocked by what had been omitted or distorted. It was as if all of our accompolishments were trivial, as if we had participated in no significant events. I had read little about, much less by, Asian Americans, not even episodes that have a proper place in any thorough survey of American history or contemporary social science, not even in gifted and talented programs that had more than one Asian American student enrolled. There was nothing about the Chinese Exclusion Act, which initiated immigration regula... (查看原文)
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