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Good read, mostly in the format of a script / Law & Order type procedural of how Asian people are defined and limited by stereotypes.
"You make your face into a mask—dead in the eyes. Not a person. Not a real one anyway. A type. Generic. It’s a form of protection. Keep yourself inside this costume, this role. You lay it on a little thicker with the accent, break up your grammar a bit more."
"TURNER He’s internalized a sense of inferiority. To White people, obviously. But also to Black people. Does ...more
"You make your face into a mask—dead in the eyes. Not a person. Not a real one anyway. A type. Generic. It’s a form of protection. Keep yourself inside this costume, this role. You lay it on a little thicker with the accent, break up your grammar a bit more."
"TURNER He’s internalized a sense of inferiority. To White people, obviously. But also to Black people. Does ...more
One of my online bookclubs read this and asked the question "How do you feel about Interior Chinatown written as a teleplay?" I'm going to "borrow" two posts from the group members:
1) "I understood it’s written as a screenplay but then I would think, is he still playing the role in the cop show? Is he riffing off-script with the actors? Is this his real life, is he off set now? [...] Then I realized it reveals how we may not be aware how many roles we “play” in life. Social and family expectatio ...more
1) "I understood it’s written as a screenplay but then I would think, is he still playing the role in the cop show? Is he riffing off-script with the actors? Is this his real life, is he off set now? [...] Then I realized it reveals how we may not be aware how many roles we “play” in life. Social and family expectatio ...more
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