num_pages: 209
description: Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir cultural criticism and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. Binding these essays together is Hong's theory of minor feelings. 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 realitywhen you believe the lies you're told about your own racial identity.Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This book traces her relationship to the English language to shame and depression to poetry and artmaking and to family and female friendship in a search to both uncover and speak the truth.
language: English
title: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
publisher: One World