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Yellow Journalist (Mapping Racisms) ReviewIf, like me, you're White and live on the East coast, the subtleties of Asian life may be kept at arm's length. It's possible to eat Chinese food, practice yoga or kung-fu or Zen meditation, ride in a taxi with an immigrant Pakistani driver and be treated by a second-generation Indian-American doctor in ignorance of the underlying tensions that Americans with an Asian heritage experience in our culture and with one another. Reading Bill Wong is the perfect antidote. This collection of columns, many published during his 17 years at the Oakland Tribune in whose California shadow he grew up, answer questions we may be too clueless to ask. Why, for example, do many Chinese-American families have a different name from their families in China? (Clue: the names weren't changed by immigration authorities.) Why did the FBI interrogate Chinese Americans during the Cold War, and how did this assumption "color" the prosecution of Wen Ho Lee? What's the problem with being a model minority? These essays, many of them laced with Wong's rueful humor, demonstrate with certainty that Asians are not inscrutible. Many of us have been too lazy to investigate.Yellow Journalist (Mapping Racisms) OverviewWho are Asian Americans? Are they the remnants of the "yellow peril" portrayed in the media through stories on Asian street gangs, unscrupulous political fundraisers, and crafty nuclear spies? Or are they the "model minority" that the media present as consistently outranking European Americans in math scores and violin performances?In this funny, sobering, and always enlightening collection, journalist William Wong comments on these and other anomalies of the Asian American experience. From its opening tribute to the Oakland Chinatown of Wong's childhood to its closing tribute to Tiger Woods, "Yellow Journalist" portrays the many-sided legacies of exclusion and discrimination. The stories, columns, essays, and commentaries in this collection tackle such persistent problems as media racism, criminality, inter-ethnic tensions, and political marginalization. As a group, they make a strong case for the centrality of the Asian American historical experiences in U.S. race relations. The essays cover many subjects, from the personal to policy, from the serious to the silly.You will learn a little Asian American history and a lot about the nuances and complexities of the contemporary Asian American experience.If there is an overriding theme of these stories and essays, it is the multi-faceted adaptation of ethnic Asians to the common American culture, the intriguing roles that they play in our society, and the quality of their achievements to contribute to a better society. Bill Wong's high school journalism teacher took him aside during his senior year and told him he would have to be "twice as good" to succeed at his chosen profession. Succeed he did, and "twice as good" he is. As Darrell Hamamoto remarks in his Foreword, "'Chinaman,' Chinese American, Asian American; any way you slice it, Bill Wong is one straight-up righteous Yellow Man." Writer and journalist William Wong has been regional commentator for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and a columnist for the "San Francisco Examiner", "Oakland Tribune", and "Asian Week", among other publications.

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