Asian American is not a color Conversations on race, affirmative action, and family
Book - 2024
"A mother and race scholar seeks to answer her daughter's many questions about race and racism with an earnest exploration into race relations and affirmative action from the perspectives of Asian Americans"--
- Subjects
- Published
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Boston :
Beacon Press
[2024]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 221 pages ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780807013625
- Introduction "But Asian American Isn't a Color"
- Chapter 1. The Ancestors and Their Contrasting Dreams
- Chapter 2. Commonalities Across the Affirmative Action Divide: Do We Even Know What We Are Arguing About?
- Chapter 3. Community Divides: Theories of Change, Social Media, and Identities
- Chapter 4. "If Not Me Then Who?": Chinese Americans Reacting to Racial Erasure
- Chapter 5. "K(No)w History, K(No)w Self": Asian Americans in Solidarity for Justice
- Conclusion Asian American Identity Solidarity Ethic and Practice
- Acknowledgments
- Interview Participants
- Notes
- Index