And some of it is really, really beautiful, because Black folks and Asian, specifically Chinese, folks occupy the same space. There’s the casting of Asian Americans as the model minority, and there’s the casting of Black folks as scary, uncivilized, the assailant. The ivory tower didn’t hand you Asian and Asian American studies. It didn’t hand me pan-African studies, Black studies. For particularly young Asian Americans, when they think about their community, they’re not just thinking about Asian Americans.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 11, 2021 21:32 UTC