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Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives

by Darcy Eveleigh

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A Cruelty Special to Our Species: Poems

by Emily Jungmin Yoon (Goodreads Author)

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Ellen said: " ‘Poetry is not just relief; poetry is tension. Poetry is departure. Poetry is return. Poetry is memory. I wrote this book to say that one has the agency to command and preserve their own narrative.’ "

Nov 21, 2019 05:18PM · see review

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“Blame has no face. I have walked on its staircase, around and around, trying to slap its face but only hitting my own cheeks.”
― Victoria Chang, Obit

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“As the poet Prageeta Sharma said, Americans have an expiration date on race the way they do for grief. At some point, they expect you to get over it.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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“but men who feign helplessness—which Oberlin specialized in—can be just as manipulative as alpha males because they use their incompetence to free themselves of menial tasks that are then saddled onto women.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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“Minor feelings occur when American optimism is enforced upon you, which contradicts your own racialized reality, thereby creating a static of cognitive dissonance.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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“Suddenly Americans feel self-conscious of their white identity and this self-consciousness misleads them into thinking their identity is under threat. In feeling wrong, they feel wronged. In being asked to be made aware of racial oppression, they feel oppressed. While we laugh at white tears, white tears can turn dangerous. White tears, as Damon Young explains in The Root, are why defeated Southerners refused to accept the freedom of black slaves and formed the Ku Klux Klan. And white tears are why 63 percent of white men and 53 percent of white women elected a malignant man-child as their leader.”
― Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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