Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
publicdomainreview.org
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
Shame gives me the ability to split myself into the first and third person. To recognize myself, as Sartre writes, “as the Other sees me.” I now see the humor in my unintended disobedience. The teacher reads to a group of rapt six-year-olds who sit cross-legged in a circle, and then, without warning, the quiet little Asian girl calmly gets up in th
... See moreCathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
People went from seeing Chinese people as coolies who stole jobs to fetishizing them as alluring, mysterious foreigners.
Stephanie Foo • What My Bones Know
I have to confess, though, that I have a hard time embracing the nineteenth-century history of Chinese America as my history, because my ancestors were still in Korea, doing what, I don’t know; those records are gone too. I suppose I look like these Chinese men, but when I gaze upon those old photos, I see those Chinamen the way white settlers must
... See moreCathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Although he remained clean-shaven, Mommsen’s hair was always shoulder-length and untidy, turning grey and finally white, resembling a witch or a wizard, as his critics observed. Possibly through the fame of Mommsen, wild hair in old age became a recognizable badge of an eccentric professor or genius, cultivated later by Einstein and generations of
... See more