CategoryMemoir

The English language is a canker sore that keeps blooming in my mouth.

Cathy Park Hong – Minor Feelilngs

To hear the history of the Korean War was to crack the spine of my indifference.

Cathy Park Hong – Minor Feelilngs

Minor feelings are the racialized range of emotions that are negative, dysphoric, and therefore untelegenic…

Cathy Park Hong – Minor Feelilngs

The problem with silence is that it can’t speak up and say why it’s silent.

Cathy Park Hong – Minor Feelilngs

I am an expert in the art of losing.

Cathy Park Hong – Minor Feelilngs

Our struggle is not about self-expression but about how to survive.

Cathy Park Hong – Minor Feelilngs

Racial self-hatred is seeing yourself the way whites see you…

Cathy Park Hong – Minor Feelilngs

America’s favorite pastime is not baseball, it’s not football, it’s racism.

Cathy Park Hong – Minor Feelilngs

Assimilation is mutating yourself to become invisible.

Cathy Park Hong – Minor Feelilngs

We were supposed to be grateful for our token status, to remain silent and beholden.

Cathy Park Hong – Minor Feelilngs