【5/18/2021 】CAPA-NoVA Distinguished Chinese American Project
吳華揚 (Frank H. Wu) is president of Queens College, City University of New York. He is an American law professor and author who served as the William L. Prosser Distinguished Professor at UC Hastings. He previously served as Chancellor & Dean, receiving unanimous and early renewal for a second term. Wu was also the first Asian American to serve in that position. In 2013, the National Jurist ranked Wu as the most influential dean in legal education and the third in the nation among legal educators and advocates influencing the ongoing debate about legal education. He was the first Asian American professor to teach at Howard Law School, as well as the first Asian American to serve as dean of Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan. At Wayne, he was the youngest law school dean in the nation at the time of his appointment.
Wu is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, which was immediately re-printed in hardcover. Arguing for a new paradigm of civil rights that goes beyond a black-white paradigm, while also addressing subtle forms of racial discrimination, the book has become canonical in Asian American Studies and is widely used in classes on the subject. It has been especially influential for debunking the model minority myth and the perpetual foreigner syndrome. Yellow appears in both the film Americanese, an adaptation of American Knees by Shawn Wong, and the book Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology. Wu himself has appeared as a character in Asian America: The Movement and the Moment.
In addition, Wu received a $95,000 grant issued by the federal Civil Liberties and Public Education Fund, to co-author Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese Internment. He has is a frequent commentator to newspapers and online journals, including a regular column for Diverse Issues in Higher Education and Daily Journal, the legal newspaper of California. Wu has published professionally in Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, the Guardian (UK), Chronicle of Higher Ed, Inside Higher Ed, and Legal Times. He maintained a blog with the Huffington Post and writes as part of the LinkedIn Influencers program. He has published an op-ed article “Why Vincent Chin Matters” in The New York Times and is currently writing a follow-up book to Yellow about the Vincent Chin case. Wu has appeared in Investigation Discovery’s televised documentary program “Fatal Encounters” discussing the events and background of the Vincent Chin case.
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