Asian American is not a color : conversations on race, affirmative action, and family
(2024)
By:
Poon, OiYan
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
305.895073/POON,O
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston : Beacon Press, [2024]
©2024
©2024
DESCRIPTION
221 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780807013625, 0807013625 :, 0807013625, 9780807013625
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"But Asian American Isn't a Color" -- The Ancestors and Their Contrasting Dreams -- Commonalities Across the Affirmative Action Divide : Do We Even Know What We Are Arguing About? -- Community Divides : Theories of Change, Social Media, and Identities -- "If Not Me Then Who?" : Chinese Americans Reacting to Racial Erasure -- "K(no)w History, K(no)w Self" : Asian Americans in Solidarity for Justice -- Asian American Identity Is a Solidarity Ethic and Practice
"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"--