Minor Feelings

Why read it

• You will see how conditional belonging teaches people to police themselves, which the author calls a softer panopticon
• You will notice how daily, unconscious habits enlist people into antiblack attitudes unless they choose otherwise
• You will learn how Japanese American internment survivors now protest the detention of migrant children, turning memory into solidarity

Who it is for

• An Asian American reader who feels unseen in public life
• A writer or artist exploring race, language and identity
• Someone depressed or anxious who wants honest personal essays

Contents

1. Cathy Park Hong
2. UNITED . . . . .
3. STAND UP . . . . .
4. THE END OF WHITE INNOCENCE . . . . .
5. BAD ENGLISH . . . . .
6. AN EDUCATION . . . . .
7. PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST . . . . .
8. THE INDEBTED . . . . .

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