How minority groups negotiate thorny but critical public policy issues in America

Greg Robinson is a professor of history at the Université du Québec À Montréal and the author of several books, including The Unsung Great: Stories of Extraordinary Japanese Americans (University of Washington Press, 2020), After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics (University of California Press, 2012), and The Unknown Great: Japanese American Sketches (University Press of Colorado, 2016). He also co-edited (with Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung) John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy (University of Washington Press, 2018), which won the 2019 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

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Robert S. Chang, Mercer Island, Washington, is professor of law and executive director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle University School of Law. He is the author of Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State and coeditor of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and the Law.

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For anyone who has an interest in social justice movements or how to be an ally to people of color or who is involved in activist organizations that deal with interracial issues, this is key reading.

Jennifer Ho, professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

It's an irony; nevertheless, racial minorities in the US have had a complex relationship in their quest for equality in the broadest sense of the word. Amid their cooperation lay strife and tension. The editors of this anthology bring together a “dream team? of scholars to interrogate this phenomenon. The collection does not offer any quick fixes to the conflict-cooperation paradigm; yet, their provocative analyses will surely bring this aspect of racial minorities out of the closet.

Stephen Middleton, professor emeritus of history and former director of the African American Studies Program at Mississippi State University and coeditor of The Construction of Whiteness