Yellow race in America beyond black and white

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...

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Main Author: Wu, Frank H., 1967-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : BasicBooks, 2003, ©2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • East is East, East is West : Asians as Americans
  • The model minority : Asian American "success" as a race relations failure
  • The perpetual foreigner : yellow peril in the pacific century
  • Neither black nor white : affirmative action and Asian Americans
  • True but wrong : new arguments against new discrimination
  • The best "chink" food : dog-eating and the dilemma of diversity
  • The changing face of America : intermarriage and the mixed race movement
  • The power of coalitions : why I teach at Howard
  • Epilogue : deep springs.