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The Conversation

Anti-Asian Violence Must Be a Bigger Part of America’s Racial Discourse

Alexander Chee and Cathy Park Hong on how the pandemic has cracked open discrimination against Asian American communities

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13 min readMar 16, 2021

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In the fall of 2019 I received an email from the poet and critic Cathy Park Hong telling…

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Alexander Chee
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Author of the novels THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT and EDINBURGH, and the essay collection HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL.