The @BillWaltonShow w/ @amychua

Lawyer and Yale law professor Amy Chua’s new book, “The Golden Gate”, explores race and class differences in America in the setting of World War II-era California, but with themes that have universal applicability. Chua’s debut novel draws inspiration from her own and her Chinese immigrant parents’ experiences in America for the purpose of demonstrating the beauty and struggle of the American Dream.

Chua wrote the novel as an exposition, in an apolitical setting, of the unique and effective structure of American society that allows all people of varying backgrounds the opportunities to succeed. She applies the same approach to her classes at Yale in an effort to encourage civil dialogue between persons of differing political views.

She describes those efforts, “It’s hard. I get scared now.” Her fear is born out of the new generations’ disdain for and limitation of free speech. She observes the same fear among her students of all political opinions and is working through her assignments and class structure to overcome that fear and foster the open exchange of different ideas.

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