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OiYan


OiYan Poon is an educator, author, speaker, and race and education scholar. She is co-director of the College Admissions Futures Co-Laborative and Senior Research Fellow for Education Equity at the NAACP LDF Thurgood Marshall Institute.

Asian American Is Not A Color by OiYan Poon Book Cover

A mother and race scholar seeks to answer her daughter’s many questions about race and racism with an earnest exploration into race relations and affirmative action from the perspectives of Asian Americans

Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family

Racial Choices: Justice or "Just Us"?

Tracing the historical evolution of Asian American political engagement in policy debates over racial inequalities, Dr. Poon will identify and describe the ideological division between notions of racial justice and “just us.”

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