In 'Minor Feelings,' Asian American Racial Trauma is Laid Bare [npr.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 2/28/204:00 AM

By Elise Hu, National Public Radio, February 27, 2020

Halfway through her debut essay collection, Minor Feelings, author and artist Cathy Park Hong makes clear her mission: "I have some scores to settle ... with this country, with how we have been scripted."

The "we" here are Asian Americans and how we're seen in this country in a time when the us-versus-them dynamic can feel overpowering. In Minor Feelings, the author asks us to reconsider the effects of racism against Asian Americans and how it persists.

"The lie that Asians have it good is so insidious that even now as I write," she notes, "I'm shadowed by the thought that I didn't have it bad compared to others. But racial trauma is not a competitive sport."

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