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 YellowRace in America Beyond Black and Whiteby Frank Wu Mar 26, 2003
DescriptionWriting 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. Reviews"With a clear expository style, [Wu] excels at using logic to unclothe the inconspicuous manifestations of racial thinking.... He gets beyond the black-white debate and takes us into the twenty-first century on the race question." "Yellow also offers an excellent overview of the official and unofficial policies that have shaped Asian-American history and identity in the U.S., and of the thinking that has laid the foundation for them. Wu draws on a refreshingly disparate bank of thinkers and writers (from Shakespeare to essayist Randolph Bourne) to grant him his points." "This fascinating blend of Wu's personal experiences and his experiences as a lawyer, professor, and reporter provides a different and much-needed perspective on an important and often neglected subject." "[Wu's] defiant yellow-in-a-black-and-white-world perspective is refreshing." "[Wu] adroitly works his way through the brier patch of America's racial challenges with remarkably good humor and an open mind." Selling TerritoryWorld |
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