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Imperial Hospitality
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
“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
As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
To make myself, and by proxy other Asian Americans, more human and a little more relevant to American culture.
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
Their moves are at once personal and driven by a desire to connect; and if these artists do not expect to feel wholly at home anywhere in the world, neither do they assume America is the only, or the best, place to exercise their collaborative gifts.