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03137aam a22003858i 4500 001 3692823CEF6911EBB8061DD04AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210728010108 008 191209s2020 enk 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1788165586 020 $a 9781788165587 035 $a (OCoLC)1140115852 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d OCL $d CNCAR $d OCLCO $d SILO 082 04 $a 305.48895073 $2 23 100 1 $a Hong, Cathy Park, $e author. 245 10 $a Minor feelings : $b a reckoning on race and the Asian condition / $c Cathy Park Hong. 264 1 $a London : $b Profile Books, $c 2020. 300 $a 1 volume ; $c 22 cm 505 0 $a United -- Stand up -- The end of white innocence -- Bad English -- An education -- Portrait of an artist -- The indebted. 520 $a 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. With sly humor and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche--and of a writer's search to both uncover and speak the truth. 600 10 $a Hong, Cathy Park. 650 0 $a Asian American women $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Asian Americans $x Social conditions. 651 0 $a United States $x Ethnic relations. 650 7 $a Asian American women $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00818614 650 7 $a Asian Americans $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00818666 650 7 $a Ethnic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916005 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919894 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781782837244 941 $a 1 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20210728010922.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3692823CEF6911EBB8061DD04AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b UINInitiate Another SILO Locator Search