[3] Following high school graduation, Wong attended the University of California, Los Angeles during a time of deep racial divides in the state.

[4] Upon receiving her PhD in 2001, Wong joined the faculty at the University of Southern California (USC) as an associate professor with a joint appointment in political science and American studies and ethnicity.

[7] Following the book's publication, Wong left USC to become the new Director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Using their $500,000 National Science Foundation grant, the goal of the research was to study different aspects of the Asian American experience before the 2016 United States presidential election.

[11] Two year later, Wong published her third book titled Immigrants, Evangelicals and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change through the Russell Sage Foundation.