An Inconvenient Minority

The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence

By: Kenny Xu

Narrated by: Nathan Guo

Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

Journalist Kenny Xu traces elite America's longstanding unease about a minority potentially upending them. Leftist agendas, such as eliminating standardized testing and lumping Asians into "privileged" categories have spurred Asian Americans to act.

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.

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.

©2021 Kenny Xu (P)2022 Tantor

Solid data supporting the arguments

The author uses solid data to support his conclusions which makes his arguments strong and convincing.

Not only Asian

The story is equally true for immigrants from many countries. I have known so many immigrants families from different countries, black, white, brown. It is that they are not easily grouped, but nonetheless all have the same work ethic and emphasis on education

Enjoyed the testimonials

This really brings to light how laws and initiative often have unintended consequences. The author did not focus on himself, but rather offered a variety of testimonials to illustrate his points.

Great book

This really breaks down the lunacy of the left pushing race into the center of American culture and how it’s destroying the country.

Long overdue

Kenny Xu helps give voice to the voiceless. I hope historians consider this long disregarded perspective.

Excellent insight

This book made me realize a lot of things I didn’t think in the past, nice book!

clear and concise overview of Asian discrimination

I'm an Asian and would highly recommend this book not only for other Asian Americans, but for anybody who believes that discrimination in the name of so-called diversity equity inclusion mandates is simply racism by another name. the book makes an excellent argument against racist policies that are increasingly endorsed by today's political left by pointing out the real harms that result.

This is a well researched and eye opening Book!

Highly recommend this book. For those who have not yet opened their minds and eyes, the agenda that is now in its final stage of fully completing the new world totalitarian dictatorships ought to make your skin crawl with all those emotions those of us who went abroad to fight the very thing so many of our brethren escaped.

It is now here, stumping on the bodies of the 100,000s of thousand of our boys and girls who gave their life fighting against despotism, Marxism, dictatorships.

You're our front lines of defense now.

But sadly, even places like Texas the blue hair mob, the exmilitary warriors, now Xbox and Playstation warriors, who defend their polygamous, poliamorous, transgender bodies, because they say these were their bodies who fought the battles, most of them never saw actual combat, but use it now in order to cover themselves with a thin veneer of unreproachable stature.

These are the battlegrounds we must stand up against today.

The battle lines have been drawn and retreat is not an option from here henceforth.

Thank you Kenny Xu for bringing this information to light.

good review, but sorry does not have an end

this tells the story of the prejudices faced by Asians but did not really say how Harvard gets away with making it harder for Asians to attend other than to say Harvard is powerful. suggests Asians should be more activists but is that the best suggestion?

Courageous, candid, effective and admirable book.

I'm sharing this book with all my Chinese American family and friends to let them know what they are up against in this woke, DEI-obsessed, toxic society. To me, the true candor in discussing the racial strife in America is exemplified by Kenny Xu's thoughtful and articulate book. I think all Americans--not just Asian Americans--should heed his summon to fight the racially divisive, liberal, elite establishment. We can no longer afford to be the passive inconvenient minority.