Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition
How do I recover from being whitewashed?
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The judges of normality are present everywhere.-Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punishment, 304an official announcement [reads that] ... nearly half of all Americans experience a psychiatric disorder.... does that mean no one is normal ... ? Or [do] we live in such a crazy-making, sick, impersonal society that it does serious psychological damage t
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Tone policing in all these places is the constant judgment—or threat of judgment—on how BIPOC express themselves.
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During this period the model minority myth was popularized to keep Communists—and black people—in check. Asian American success was circulated to promote capitalism and to undermine the credibility of black civil rights: we were the “good” ones since we were undemanding, diligent, and never asked for handouts from the government. There’s no discrim
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