Jeffery Paul Chan

Who is Jeffery Paul Chan?

Jeffery Paul Chan is a Chinese American author. He is a professor of Asian American studies and English at San Francisco State University, where he also received his masters degree and has taught for 38 years until his retirement.

Chan was a co-founder of the Asian American studies department at SFSU, and has twice served as first chair of the department. With Frank Chin, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong, Chan edited two editions of the groundbreaking anthology of Asian American literature, Aiiieeee!, which helped introduce Asian American authors as worthy of serious study. He also coined the term racist love to express the ways Asians are stereotyped in overly-positive ways that are just as damaging as the negative stereotypes used against blacks, Latinos and Native Americans.