An Inconvenient Minority

The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence

De: Kenny Xu

Narrado por: Nathan Guo

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.

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.