E. Tammy Kim · Short Cuts: Asian America · LRB 4 November 2021
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The US population is now 18.5 per cent Latino, 13 per cent Black and 6 per cent Asian. More than a tenth of US residents...
Vol. 43 No. 21 · 4 November 2021 Short Cuts Asian America E. Tammy Kim Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 2145 words C athy Park Hong's ​ Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (Profile, £9.99) is a tetchy, funny mix of memoir, polemic and cultural criticism: she inveighs against a Korean-American psychotherapist who rejects her as a patient, praises Richard Pryor, investigates the rape and murder of the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, considers Black-Asian relations and reflects on her immigrant family's stereotypical embourgeoisement. Better known as a poet (
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