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For as long as I could remember, I have struggled to prove myself into existence.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
In my search for an honest way to write about race, I wanted to comfort the afflicted, but more than that, I wanted to afflict the comfortable; I wanted to make them squirm in shame, probably because I too identify with the comfortable.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“For the last twenty years, until recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories were the template of ethnic fiction that supports the fantasy of Asian American immigrants as compliant strivers. The fault lies not in Lahiri herself, who I think is an absorbing storyteller, but in the publishing industry that used to position her books as the “single story” on i
... See moreBut while I may look impassive, I am frantically paddling my feet underwater, always overcompensating to hide my devouring feelings of inadequacy.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Even to declare that I’m writing for myself would still mean I’m writing to a part of me that wants to please white people.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Asians lack presence. Asians take up apologetic space. We don’t even have enough presence to be considered real minorities. We’re not racial enough to be token. We’re so post-racial we’re silicon.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition
Who is us? What is us? Is there even such a concept as an Asian American consciousness? Is it anything like the double consciousness that W.E.B. Du Bois established over a century ago?
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
