· 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 Brand: Random House Publishing Group. Minor Feelings: a Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition is an essay collection published in by the Korean American poet and academic Cathy Park Hong. Across seven autobiographical essays, Hong explores numerous facets of the Asian American experience in the United States, touching on structural racism, cultural appropriation, and media depictions of Asian Americans. Cathy Park Hong is the author of the creative nonfiction book Minor Feelings: An Asian-American Reckoning, and three poetry collections including Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Engine Empire. Hong is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning Audible Audiobook - Unabridged Cathy Park Hong (Author, Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) out of 5 stars 1, ratings. I eagerly downloaded the preview of acclaimed poet Cathy Park Hong's newly released book of autobiographical essays, 'Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning' Source: Cathy Park Hong/One World. In February , the same month Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning was released, I attended a teach-in organized by Tsuru for Solidarity in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tsuru for Solidarity is a national project led by Japanese Americans working to end detention sites, supporting front-line immigrant and refugee communities, and challenging racist, inhumane.
‘I have struggled to prove myself into existence’ Poet Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings is a brillant, revelatory memoir that sews personal experience together with social, class and racial discourse. Inclusive and broad sweeping, her accounts and insights on the Asian American experience stand strongly in solidarity with the struggles of other marginalized people making this one of the best books on racial struggles I’ve read these past few years. In , Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning won The National Book Critics Circle Award for best autobiographical book of the year. The book was also considered the second-best non-fiction book of by Time, [12] as well as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times. Racial self hatred is seeing yourself whites see you, which turns you into your own worst enemy. Your only defence is to be hard on yourself, which becomes compulsive, and therefore a comfort: to peck yourself to death.”. ― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning.
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