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OiYan

OiYan Poon is an educator, author, speaker, and race and education scholar. She is co-director of the College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative and a former Senior Research Fellow for Education Equity at the NAACP LDF Thurgood Marshall Institute.

Tracing the historical evolution of Asian American political engagement in policy debates over racial inequalities, Dr. Poon identifies and describes the ideological division between notions of racial justice and “just us.”

Thank you to all the independent bookstores, public libraries, friends, college campuses, and conferences that helped celebrate Asian American is Not a Color in its 1st year!

A special shout out to all the independent local bookstores that hosted or supported a book event in the last year! Please support them: Anderson’s Bookshop, Bel Canto Books, Black Garnet Books, Call & Response Books, Morgenstern Books, Odyssey Bookshop, On Waverly, Porter Square Books, Possible Futures Books, Potter’s House Books, Restoried Bookshop, Semicolon Books, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Solid State Books, Village Well Books, Women & Children First, and Yu & Me Books.

Asian American Is Not A Color by OiYan Poon Book Cover

A mother and race scholar seeks to answer her daughter’s many questions about race and racism with an earnest exploration into race relations and affirmative action from the perspectives of Asian Americans

Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family

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