Success Won't Save Us
How Asian Americans Can Fight White Supremacy
Pawan Dhingra(Author)
Duke University Press
Will be published approx. on 2. February 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-1-4780-3956-3 (ISBN)
Description
Success Won't Save Us considers the dual reality that Asian Americans must contend with in the United States: they are both celebrated for their achievements and subjected to racialized violence. They face obstacles as minorities but also have held prominent positions within a federal administration accused of spreading white nationalism. For Pawan Dhingra, these two narratives are intimately and necessarily linked. The conditions that produce xenophobic attacks against Asian Americans also facilitate their upward mobility and social prestige. Dhingra argues that the Asian American experience must be understood within a system of white supremacy and racial capitalism. Instead of simply fighting anti-Asian racism, he advocates for rethinking and reconstructing the institutions that educate about race, such as schools and museums. Dhingra also offers practical methods and approaches for transforming education, politics, and the economy to fight against racism.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4780-3956-3 (9781478039563)
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Person
Pawan Dhingra is Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank '55 Professor of US Immigration Studies at Amherst College. He is the author of Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough and Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream.