Displaying 1 of 1 2020 Format: Book Author: Hong, Cathy Park, author. Title: Minor feelings : an Asian American reckoning / Cathy Park Hong. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York : One World, [2020] Description: 206 pages ; 22 cm Publication Year: 2020 Summary: "Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian Americans are all high-achieving professionals. But in reality, this is the most economically divided group in the country, a tenuous alliance of people with roots from South Asia to East Asia to the Pacific Islands, from tech millionaires to service industry laborers. How do we speak honestly about the Asian American condition--if such a thing exists? Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this thorny subject, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. Binding these essays together is Hong's theory of "minor feelings." As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality--when you believe the lies you're told about your own racial identity..."-- Provided by publisher. Target Audience Note: Adult Brodart. Adult Brodart. Subjects: Hong, Cathy Park. Hong, Cathy Park. Asian Americans -- Biography. Asian American women -- Biography. Poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography. Notes: Booklist, January 01, 2020 Library Journal, January 01, 2020 Publishers Weekly, December 09, 2019 Kirkus Reviews, December 01, 2019 LCCN: 2019033869 ISBN: 9781984820365 1984820362 Current Holds: 0 Local Availability:2 (of 2) System Availability:7 (of 7) Control Number: 1994288 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
