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The article explores the book "Bitter Fruit" and its examination of racial dynamics between Black and Korean communities during a boycott of Korean grocery stores in Brooklyn. The author reflects on the book's limitations, such as its failure to analyze capitalism and class differentiation within Black communities. Other scholars critique the book for its narrow focus on racial politics and power, neglecting neoliberalism, violence, and the experiences of other racialized groups. Claire Jean Kim discusses her theory of racial triangulation and its twentieth anniversary, addressing criticisms and exploring the concept of anti-Blackness throughout history. Her new book, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World," revisits and revises her theory, examining the relationship between Asian American history and structural anti-Blackness. Kim argues that Asian Americans have historically benefited from being positioned as not-Black in an anti-Black society. She concludes by questioning the role Asian Americans will play in the ongoing fight for racial democracy. [Extracted from the article]

Asian Americans are involved in cross-racial community and advocacy coalitions. The article explores the barriers and problems that people in these groups encounter, which impede their progress in sustaining impactful and influential agenda and decisions. The central problem behind this is Asian American’s ambiguous political stance, thereby making coalition partners apprehensive. Asian American’s lack of definitive political identity and how they relate to other racial background pose as a problem to coalition building. A brief look to one of the earliest Asian American immigrants to the US shows that even from the very beginning Asian Americans have occupied a highly ambiguous position in American society. Discussed is the central question of what Asian Americans are fighting for in terms of social justice. Asian Americans need to discuss their political identification and agenda as a way to sustain cross-alliances and to have a secure future in American society. Asian Americans as an internally diverse group explain the difficulty of having a unified voice representing our political stance. Two Asian American grassroots organizations with clear political identities are explored.

Post-1965 demographic changes in the United States [US] have brought blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans into direct conflict, raising the question of how and whether law and public policy should attempt to adjudicate conflicts among racialized minority groups. I argue in this article that for the past few decades, national political leaders in the US have promoted an official multiculturalist discourse that actually discourages Americans from naming and addressing these intergroup tensions. This discourse superficially reimagines race and nation--by moving from a biracial, black-white focus to a formal acknowledgment of multiracial difference--while refusing to acknowledge the complex interminority inequalities and antagonisms generated by this new diversity. How might we refocus national attention on the serious interminority conflicts and racial justice struggles unfolding around us? I consider resurrecting the traditional notion of racial hierarchy as a counter-narrative to official multiculturalist discourse before arguing instead for one which involves a more complex notion of 'racial positionality'. Keywords: Multiculturalism: race: United States; difference, hierarchy, positionality.

Issues concerning the political roles played by Asian Americans in politics are discussed. Ways in which Asian American people project themselves both in society and in critical narratives are stressed. A review of Asian-American narratives of self-representation between 1960 and 2000 is presented.

by Angelo Ancheta. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1997. 224 pp. Cloth, $47.00; paper, $18.00. For much of this century, America's 'other' minorities - Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, [...]

by Pei-te Lien. New York, Garland Publishing, 1997. 200 pp. $48.00. For much of this century, America's 'other' minorities - Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and others - have been [...]

The article discusses the historic moments of the photographs of black convicted felon Willie Horton and U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife First Lady Michele Obama and its contribution to American politics. It mentions that the photograph of Horton is being related to the arguments regarding black "pathology" in 1980s. It explores the credibility of Obama as radical Islamic warrior.