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Unassimilability is a proposition to refuse to belong here altogether, together.
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My interest has always been in the place where sex and race are both obscenely conspicuous and yet consciously suppressed, largely because of the liminal place that the Asian man occupies in the midst of it: an “honorary white” person who will always be denied the full perquisites of whiteness; an entitled man who will never quite be regarded or treated as a man; a nominal minority whose claim to be a “person of color” deserving of the special regard reserved for victims is taken seriously by no
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― The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
― The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays
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