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An inconvenient minority : the attack on Asian American excellence and the fight for meritocracy / Kenny Xu ; [foreword by James Lindsay].

by Xu, Kenny, author.

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[New York] : Diversion Books, 2021.

Asian American college students.

Asian Americans -- Education (Higher)

Asian Americans -- Social conditions.

Discrimination in higher education -- United States.

9781635767568 (hardcover) :

1635767563 (hardcover)

xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

First Diversion Books edition.

Foreword: Within our many, an inconvenient one by James Lindsay -- Preface -- A broken meritocracy -- Harvard is rotting -- The truth about Asian stereotypes -- Diversity and exclusion -- Shut up about the test -- The rules are changing -- Afterword: Model minority.

"Even in the midst of a nationwide surge of bias and incidents against them, Asians from coast to coast have quietly assumed mastery of the nation's technical and intellectual machinery and become essential American workers. Yet, they've been forced to do so in the face of policy proposals-written in the name of diversity-excluding them from the upper ranks of the elite. Going beyond the Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) v. Harvard case, Xu unearths the skewed logic rippling countrywide, from Mayor Bill de Blasio's attempted makeover of New York City's Specialized School programs to the battle over "diversity" quotas in Google's and Facebook's progressive epicenters, to the rise of Asian American activism in response to unfair perceptions and admission practices.In An Inconvenient Minority, journalist Kenny Xu traces elite America's longstanding unease about a minority potentially upending them. Leftist agendas, such as eliminating standardized testing, doling out racial advantages to "preferred" minorities, and lumping Asians into "privileged" categories despite their deprived historical experiences have spurred Asian Americans to act. Asian Americans' time is now, as they increase their direct action and amplify their voices in the face of mounting anti-Asian attacks. An Inconvenient Minority chronicles the political and economic repression and renaissance of a long ignored racial identity group-and how they are central to reversing America's cultural decline and preserving the dynamism of the free world." -- Amazon.com.

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