Author bio: Kenny Xu is a renowned public commentator on education, minority achievement, and Critical Race Theory. He is the author of An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for American Meritocracy (Diversion, 2021) and has written for the Wall Street Journal, City Journal, National Review, Newsweek, the New York Post, New York Daily News, The Federalist, The Daily Signal, Quillette, the Washington Examiner, Honestly with Bari Weiss, and others. He is currently a recipient of the prestigious Novak Journalism Fellowship, which is where the research for this book originated.
"""Kenny Xu's School of Woke is a crystal clear, no nonsense, and vitally important explanation of Critical Race Theory and its consequences. It is an indispensable guide to understanding what's happening to our academies and with our youth. But beyond educating readers about Critical Race Theory's history, the assault on merit and identity, and the glorification of victimhood, it will also teach you how to fight back. If you want to defeat this aspect madness that's infecting our educational system, School of Woke is for you.""--Peter Boghossian, How to Have Impossible Conversations ""Nowhere do Americans most prevalently feel our slide towards victimhood than in the field of education. Kenny Xu makes a compelling case that teachings of racial division are having a destructive impact on the very minority kids they claim to serve."" --Vivek Ramaswamy, bestselling author of Woke, Inc., Nation of Victims, and 2024 presidential candidate ""Kenny Xu's book is a hard look at a big mess we have gotten ourselves into. A clarion call to reform the way we educate this nation's kids.""--Douglas Murray, bestselling author of The War on the West and contributor for The Spectator ""Over the past few years, the nation's schools have been consumed by heated debates about race, gender, and parental rights. In School of Woke, Kenny Xu explains what's at stake in these fights and offers an energetic and timely critique of progressive dogmas.""--Frederick M. Hess, Senior fellow and the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute"