'Claire Kim's Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World is yet another critically important work from a leading theoretician of racial politics within the U.S. An acute observer of the complicated racial dynamics of the twenty-first century U.S., Kim centers anti-blackness as critical for understanding the complex racial dynamics that continue be central to shaping U.S. society and politics.' Michael Dawson, The University of Chicago
Introduction: Better Asians Than Blacks; Part I. Exclusion/Belonging; Part II. Ostracism/Initiation; Part III. Solidarity/Disavowal; Coda: Asian Americans and Anti-Blackness.
Kim is Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies at University of California, Irvine. Her writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Ms. Magazine. Her two previous books, Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict and Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species and Nature in a Multicultural Age, have both won best book awards from the American Political Science Association. Kim has been a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and the University of California Humanities Research Institute.