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the humiliations of immigrant life which U.S. citizenship did not change.
Toni Morrison • Tar Baby
But like many model immigrants, he can be angry.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
He has a kind, round face and the relaxed, easygoing manner of someone who’s spent most of his life in California.
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
“You know, I don’t think she ever lost her shit around her white friends.” “Yeah, well,” Erin said ruefully, “we were family.”
Cathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
A world that relies on social inequality to keep its machinery running can only afford for a handful of people to imagine themselves “gifted.”
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
Critical writers in law, as well as in social science, have drawn attention to the ways the dominant society racializes different minority groups at different times, in response to shifting needs such as the labor market. At one period, for example, society may have had little use for blacks but much need for Mexican or Japanese agricultural worker
... See moreRichard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Angela Harris (Foreword) • Critical Race Theory
Mimouna (named for a Moroccan-Jewish post-Passover celebration),
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
“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
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