The Souls of Yellow Folk, (Hardcover)

from kessa2020

Great perspectives and well-discussed themes of racial identity and America's obsession with race and racism, that prefaces the Asian realities in dealing with being POC's or Persons of Color in an America in which African American slavery and continued denouncement of contributions lend itself t...

from Juva

The Face of Seung-Hui Cho - The author explains his conflicting emotions around being asked to write about an Asian mass shooter. He is repelled by the silent implication that he and this killer have something in common while simultaneously being struck profoundly by their similarities. He uses t...

from Wickabod

"In an age characterized by the politics of resentment, the Asian man knows something of the resentment of the embattled white man, besieged on all sides by grievances and demands for reparation, and something of the resentments of the rising social-justice warrior, who feels with every fiber of ...

from rachelp1985

I was disappointed by the content based on the title; I was hoping for a curation of essays speaking to the Asian and Asian American experience, but by and large was mostly a collection of personal interviews and puff pieces from the last decade. There were several interesting stories, but I feel...

from fhudnell

While I liked some of these essays, including the last one "What is White Supremacy", my main problem with this collection is that my expectations were disappointed. That is primarily the fault of the totally misleading title of the book. I wanted some analysis of race from the point of view of A...