Minor Feelings
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What’s it about?
A poet's unflinching exploration of the racialized emotions—shame, unease, anger—that arise from the gap between America's promises and the reality for Asian Americans.
You’ll learn
- What minor feelings are and why they matter
- How the model minority myth is a cage
- The psychic cost of perpetual foreignness
- Why art must resist easy legibility