Frank H. Wu

Frank H. Wu is a law professor and author. He currently serves as a Distinguished Professor at UC Hastings. He previously served as Chancellor amp Dean, receiving unanimous and early renewal for a second term. In November 2015, he announced he would return to teaching. 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. Wu is the author of Yellow Race in America Beyond Black and White, which was immediately reprinted in hardcover. Arguing for a new paradigm of civil rights that goes beyond a blackwhite paradigm, while also addressing subtle forms of racial discrimination, the book has become canonical in Asian American Studies and is widely used in clas

The son of Chinese immigrants from Taiwan to the United States, Wu was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 20, 1967. In his youth, Wus parents moved to Detroit, Michigan, where his father worked as an engineer at Ford Motor Company. In his book Yellow and other writings, Wu claims that his childhood experience of being the only Asian American among his classmates and the schoolyard taunting he endured as a result of his race alerted him to racial inequalities at an early age. He further describes how his attempts to assimilate and reject what was Asian only seemed to reinforce his marked difference to his peers.

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