An Inconvenient Minority: The Harvard Admissions Case and the Attack on Asian American Excellence

Kenny Xu

Jul 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Nathan Guo

About this audiobook

Even in the midst of a nationwide surge of bias and incidents, Asians from coast to coast have quietly assumed mastery of the nation's technical and intellectual machinery and become essential American workers. Yet, they've been forced to do so in the face of policy proposals-written in the name of diversity-excluding them from the upper ranks of the elite. Journalist Kenny Xu traces elite America's longstanding unease about a minority potentially upending them. Leftist agendas, such as eliminating standardized testing and lumping Asians into "privileged" categories have spurred Asian Americans to act. Going beyond the Students for Fair Admission (SFFA) v. Harvard case, Xu unearths the skewed logic rippling countrywide, from former Mayor Bill de Blasio's attempted makeover of New York City's Specialized School programs to the battle over "diversity" quotas in Google's and Facebook's progressive epicenters, to the rise of Asian American activism. An Inconvenient Minority chronicles the political and economic repression and renaissance of a long ignored racial identity group-and how they are central to reversing America's cultural decline and preserving the dynamism of the free world.

About the author

Kenny Xu is the president of the nonprofit organization Color Us United, the lead insider on the Harvard Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case, and a commentary writer for various publications. His work has propelled him to interviews with NPR and features in the New York Times Magazine.

Nathan Guo is a first-generation Asian American narrator with a passion for community-centric stories.