In this insightful
look at race relations from a perspective too often overlooked, law
professor and scholar Frank Wu examines and deconstructs the
problematics of the place of Asian Americans in the society, writing
such chapters as “The Model Minority: Asian American Success as a
Race Relations Failure,” “The Perpetual Foreigner: Yellow Peril
in the Pacific Century,” and “The Best ‘Chink’ Food:
Dog-Eating and the Dilemma of Diversity.”
From the publisher:
“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.”
