This book proposes an approach to moral agency that is attentive to the social and moral context of Asian American Christians, and articulates a moral responsibility to lead the North American church to work toward justice for other marginalized groups and for reconciliation in society.

Asian Americans occupy intermediate roles in North American society such as “middleman minorities” or “model minorities,” which involve simultaneous economic and racial privilege and discrimination They also experience conflicting moral demands and expectations arising from their multicultural and globalized affiliations and loyalties as Asian, American, and Asian-American. In these various concurrent identities, and in their roles of intermediate privilege and discrimination, they experience moral confusion and conflict that can lead to a lack of moral agency.

“Complex integrity” as a character trait can help Asian Americans prioritize and reconcile the conflicting moral demands they encounter, and thus construct a moral agency that leads to an appropriate response to the partial privilege they experience. It acknowledges multiple sources of moral knowledge and claims, and primarily expresses itself in action toward a desired future. Consonant with Asian and Christian moral traditions, this should lead to work in social justice and reconciliation for other marginalized groups.