Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
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Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
You don’t like how you look, how you sound. You think your Asian features are undefined, like God started pinching out your features and then abandoned you. You hate that there are so many Asians in the room. Who let in all the Asians? you rant in your head. Instead of solidarity, you feel that you are less than around other Asians, the boundaries
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