—pay attention when anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S. turns violent. But alongside these violent punctuations is something ever-present, a sense of otherness that is subterranean and pervasive. Being made to feel vaguely alien in your own country is not something that most white people think about. But for Asians, being asked “but where are you really from?” is irritating—a shared, eye-roll-inducing joke. Being called some other Asian woman’s name is worse.
I have different questions. The fight for greater racial inclusion and more racial justice is at the heart of my political work, so I often use the terms “people of color” or “Black and brown” or, more recently, “BIPOC.” But these days I am not quite sure: do any of these designations include me?I have learned, far too recently, that these things go together: my behind-the-scenes indirection, which reads as “sweet” even when it’s purposeful.
My father, now in his 80s, grew up in Augusta, Ga., at the height of Jim Crow. His family—his mother, his uncle and five kids—lived in a single room at the back of their 200-square-foot grocery store. His best friends were Boykin and Cush Cade, Black brothers who lived down the street.
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