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Yellow : race in America beyond Black and white by FRANK H.WU, Frank H. Wu, Wu, Frank is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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In the tradition of W.E.B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and other public intellectuals who confronted the "color line" of the 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 the new century. Often provocative and always thoughtful, this book addresses some of the most controversial contemporary issues: discrimination, immigration, diversity, globalization, and the mixed-race movement, introducing the example of Asian Americans to shed new light on the 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.-- PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION [In this book, the author] make[s] cases for affirmative action, and against racial profiling. [The book offers] an ... overview of the official and unofficial policies that have shaped Asian-American history and identity in th

Who reads Yellow : race in America beyond Black and white?

Author

FRANK H.WU, Frank H. Wu, Wu, Frank

Publisher

A Member of the Perseus Books Group

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780465006403

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Sociology, History

Rating

3.7 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13