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Author Poon, OiYan, author.

Title Asian American is not a color : conversations on race, affirmative action, and family / OiYan A. Poon.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [2024]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3202514~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  305.895073 POO    NOT YET AVAIL
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Description 221 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-213) and index.
Contents "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.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Asian Americans -- Race identity.
Asian Americans -- Social conditions.
Racism -- United States.
United States -- Race relations.
Affirmative action programs -- United States.
Poon, OiYan -- Family.
Added Title Conversations on race, affirmative action, and family
ISBN 9780807013625 (hardcover)
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