Yellow : race in America beyond Black and white /
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 t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2002]
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| Online Access: | Program air date: March 31, 2002 Publisher description |
| Summary: | 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's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 400 pages ; 20 cm |
| Awards: | A 2002 Kiriyama Prize Notable book. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-381) and index (pages 385-397). |
| ISBN: | 0465006396 9780465006397 046500640X 9780465006403 |