An Inconvenient Minority: The Ivy League Admissions Cases and the Attack on Asian-American Excellence establishes Kenny Xu as an authoritative source for understanding and meeting today’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) challenge. Xu, President of Color Us United and a journalist, reorients the fierce exchanges over race through his scholarship and shrewd insights. Despite its subtitle, the book does not belabor the Harvard case with its now notorious statistical disparities reflecting discriminatory treatment of Asian-American applicants.
Rather, Xu deftly weaves together well-chosen anecdotes and statistical data to capture the collision between the DEI bulldozer and Asian-American aspirations and achievements in education and employment. He makes clear how woke elite policies hamper the lives of all Americans in their pursuit of happiness. And he adds the astounding arguments of Asian-Americans who have supported the elites against other Asian-Americans. Xu admonishes Asian-Americans to not remain passive spectators to the blows they have been dealt but instead enter the political arena and fight for their rights and all whose rights the strange new god of DEI has trampled.
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