Cathy Park Hong
Author
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Asian American and Pacific Islander Reads
Women's History Month
Asian American and Pacific Islander Reads
Women's History Month
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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...