Howard University Professor, Author to Lecture on Race Issues

Frank H. Wu, the first and only Asian American professor at the Howard University School of Law, will discuss his book Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, (2002, Basic Books) when he visits the Skidmore campus Thursday, Feb. 13.

Free and open to the public, his talk will begin at 8 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium of Palamountain Hall.

In the tradition of W.E.B. DuBois, Cornel West, and other intellectuals who confronted the “color line” of the 20th century, Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity affect race relations in contemporary America. Both provocative and thoughtful, Wu’s book addresses some of the most controversial contemporary issues: discrimination, immigration, diversity, globalization, and the mixed-race movement, introducing the example of Asian Americans to shed new light on current debates.

Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White has been reprinted once and a paperback edition also is planned. Wu’s other writings include a textbook titled Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment (2001, Aspen), which he co-wrote, and more than 200 articles in academic, professional, and mainstream publications.

A visiting professor at the University of Michigan during the current academic year, Wu also is teaching a course at Columbia this year. Before beginning his academic career, Wu held a clerkship with the late U.S. District Court Judge Frank J. Battisti in Cleveland, Ohio. Wu then joined the civil litigation practice group at the law firm of Morrison and Foerster in San Francisco.

Wu earned a bachelor’s degree at Johns Hopkins University and a law degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a teaching fellow at the Stanford University Law School during 1994-95.

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