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What Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? -- New York Magazine - Nymag
Wesley Yangnymag.com
commodification of their bodies and art as hula took them in unexpected directions outside of the islands.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Edwidge Danticat story: “Shame is heavier than a hundred bags of salt.”
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
“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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Katie Kitamura • Intimacies: A Novel
I’d rather write about my friendship with Asian women first. My mother would take over, breaching the walls of these essays, until it is only her. I have some scores to settle first—with this country, with how we have been scripted. I will only say that my mother was broken then, though I don’t know how. When illness is unnamed, the blame for it is
... See moreCathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
STILL, they dreamed.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
the luau served as the innocent public surrogate for prostitution.