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A review by athst
The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang
5.0
This is a fine collection of essays. Yang has an incisive, clear way of writing. I found the nuance a refreshing change from most of the polarized discussion of these topics that you usually get online.
Despite the name of the book, it's really a collection of his essays on a variety of different topics. The essays are organized into four sections, which I would roughly describe as (1) Asian-Americans, (2) modern internet culture and politics, (3) sexuality and relationships, and (4) race.
While I get some of the criticisms on here about feeling mislead from the title, I'd also argue that if you only think the first 3 essays are relevant to the Asian-American experience, you should probably take a moment and reevaluate that you may be thinking too narrowly.
Despite the name of the book, it's really a collection of his essays on a variety of different topics. The essays are organized into four sections, which I would roughly describe as (1) Asian-Americans, (2) modern internet culture and politics, (3) sexuality and relationships, and (4) race.
While I get some of the criticisms on here about feeling mislead from the title, I'd also argue that if you only think the first 3 essays are relevant to the Asian-American experience, you should probably take a moment and reevaluate that you may be thinking too narrowly.