| Introduction | 1 |
| Race, Racism, and the Pastoral Letter | 5 |
| Catholic Social Teaching | 9 |
| Whiteness and White Supremacy | 11 |
| Other Terms and Their Uses When We Talk about Race and Racism | 15 |
| Organization of This Volume | 17 |
1. | Yellow Peril | 21 |
| Yellow Peril in the Nineteenth Century | 24 |
| Irish and Chinese Immigrants | 29 |
| Religion, Race, and Chinese Exclusion | 32 |
| Early Chinese American Civil Rights Activists | 44 |
| Yellow Peril Today | 48 |
| AAPI Health Care Workers | 51 |
| Stigmatized by the Actions of a Few | 54 |
| Conclusion and Theological Reflection | 56 |
2. | Model Minority Myth | 63 |
| A Model Based on a Fallacy | 64 |
| Racial Positioning | 70 |
| Case Study: Racial Positionings of Black and Asian Americans | 74 |
| Racism as "Powerless Defense" | 81 |
| Asian Americans in Danger | 86 |
| Confronting White Supremacy | 88 |
| Anti-Blackness and Colorism | 102 |
| Conclusion and Theological Reflection | 108 |
3. | Perpetual Foreigner | 116 |
| System of Racial Microaggressions | 117 |
| Autobiography of Jung Young Lee | 121 |
| Theology of Marginality | 124 |
| In-Between Stage | 125 |
| In-Both Stage | 126 |
| In-Beyond Stage | 127 |
| Lee's Critique of Centrist Thinking | 129 |
| System of Knowledge Dissemination | 131 |
| Connections between Black and Asian American Oppressions and Liberations | 134 |
| Normalization of Racial and Social Injustice | 142 |
| Conclusion and Theological Reflection | 145 |
| Conclusion | 153 |
| What We Know about Jesus | 154 |
| Theological Basis for the Good News for the Poor | 160 |
| Preferential Option for the Poor | 162 |
| Principles of Solidarity, the Common Good, and Subsidiarity | 165 |
| Acknowledgments | 171 |
| Index | 173 |