The reviews are in! + Book cover and pre-order

Here’s the official book cover of The Minority Experience: Navigating Emotional and Organizational Realities!

I was very excited and pleased with this work, done by an award-winning designer whom I hope to meet one day.  I like how not all the lighter dots are the same, and how the dot in the bottom right speaks to the idea of being on the margin… I imagine there may be some “book/page margin” jokes forthcoming in the months to come.  : )

A couple more updates!  My book is ready for pre-order (official release is September 4, 2018), and has a page with a summary, outline, and some reviews at minoritybook.com, or here: 

https://www.ivpress.com/the-minority-experience

I have to say that I was so honored and humbled to see these reviews from such amazing and diverse leaders and authors.  Here are some links to who they are, and some of the books they’ve written:

– Charles Lee, CEO at Ideation, author of Good Idea. Now What? (http://theideation.com/)

“Even well-intentioned efforts to build more diverse organizations will fail unless we address the realities of pain, power, and the past. With clarity and honesty, Adrian Pei shows how facing these realities can lead to compassion, advocacy, and wisdom for a better future. This book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to see genuinely multicultural organizations thrive.”

– Andy Crouch, author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling and Strong and Weak, partner for theology and culture at Praxis (http://andy-crouch.com/)

“The Minority Experience is a powerful and compelling read, regardless of your ethnic or faith background. I whole heartedly recommend it to anyone who wants to build a fair and just society for all!”

– Stewart Kwoh, president, executive director, and founder of Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Los Angeles

“To grow oneness in the body of Christ, to develop understanding between people, and to encourage acceptance and respect when there are differences all require more than just willingness to reach across those differences. Adrian Pei gives us that opportunity. In The Minority Experience he invites us to walk with him on his journey as a minority living and working in a majority culture. His honesty and vulnerability give us a taste of the feelings of inadequacy and the pain he has lived through and the victories he has achieved. This book can give hope to other minorities inhabiting a majority space and enable those majority people to gain empathy, comprehension, and compassion for the reality of the challenges facing our brothers and sisters.”

– Judy Douglass, director of Cru Women’s Resources (https://www.judydouglass.com/)

“Some books add to a conversation and some books move a conversation forward. The Minority Experience is the latter. I’ve been looking for a book that adds this perspective to the church’s conversation on race as well as offers practical steps for making significant change to power structures and organizations. Adrian Pei’s tightly written and persuasive book should be required reading for leaders and teams looking to build healthier cultures and jump ahead in one of the most significant conversations facing society today. I can’t recommend it enough.”

– Ken Wytsma, author of The Myth of Equality, lead pastor of Village Church in Beaverton, Oregon (http://kenwytsma.com/)

– Sandra Maria Van Opstal, author of The Next Worship (http://www.sandravanopstal.com/)

“The Minority Experience: Navigating Emotional and Organizational Realities was a pleasure to read because I not only gained new insight from a well-researched and well-written book, but I learned things about myself I did not know. Adrian Pei has given us fresh insight into the issues surrounding race and ethnicity, let’s accept it as he moves us farther down the road to healing.”

– Randy Woodley, author of Living in Color and Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision (https://www.georgefox.edu/seminary/faculty/bio/randy-woodley.html)

“Adrian Pei wonderfully exposits, via stories and quantitative data, a missing piece of the conversation in today’s tense national racial divide. This is absolutely necessary reading for those in the majority who may not understand what it’s like to be a minority as well as for minorities who have struggled to put into words what they’ve been feeling. It is for leaders of organizations and for anyone who calls themself a Christian. This is a book I wish I had written! Not only do we share the Asian American experience, but I am a Cru alum as well. Pei blends faith, practice, and theory together into a beautiful, eye-opening tapestry.”

– Allen Yeh, associate professor of intercultural studies and missiology at Biola University (https://www.biola.edu/directory/people/allen-yeh)

“Insightful, practical, honest, and kind hearted, The Minority Experience is an enormously insightful book. I don’t know of another book that so clearly illuminates the experience of ethnic minorities in majority culture organizations. I was challenged and encouraged by Adrian Pei’s thoughts and, more than that, felt hope for the future of my own organization—highly recommended.”

– Matt Mikalatos, author of Good News for a Change and Sky Lantern (http://www.mikalatos.com/)

“The Minority Experience is a helpful addition for organizational leaders to grow and deepen their cultural intelligence to include race and ethnicity. Author Adrian Pei draws from his own ethnic identity journey, which pushes his understanding of leadership and faith, and graciously tells the story of organizational failures and opportunities.”

– Kathy Khang, author of Raise Your Voice (http://www.kathykhang.com/)