The Triple Package: Racism as Social Science

The Triple Package is a highly provocative and racially-loaded treatise on why some groups succeed when others don’t, writes Pradyot Lal in Tehelka

Some three years after she gained fame, and to many stoked fires in the mommy wars, Yale law professor Amy Chua is back with a bang, this time along with co-author and husband, fellow professor and novelist Jed Rubenfeld. Their book, The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America, is a sort of racism camouflaged as social science, and has already created a stir in academic and social circles.