Rohan Zhou-Lee on the “intersectional power exchange” in Black and Asian communities | IreneCHsiao
I am the third generation of Blasian in my family—my grandparents on both sides were mixed Black and Asian. Everyone’s like, ‘This is a new thing!’ And I’m like, “Mmm . . . come to the Caribbean. We’re everywhere.” We grew up being very proud to be Chinese. In high school, I started asking my grandparents where we were from. I was like, are we Indian? This is what happens when colonizers erase our history so well.
Around the time that Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi [now known as Ayọ Tometi] started the Black Lives Matter movement during the Obama era, I had recently graduated and felt uncomfortable going to a protest. I had gone to a couple in college, but in the “real world” I was not comfortable or ready. At a Filipino alumni party, I got a copy of Carlos Bulosan’s.
Solidarity stories are essentially pushed out of our education. Asian American studies, when we were in college, was only something that was in college.
When we talk about the stereotypes our society relies on, we rely on Asians being the model minority. But any alignment with whiteness or adjacency with whiteness means you have to give up your culture and history. So many people are like, “We built these railroads—we’re proud to build these railroads.” But they were lynching us, they were massacring us, they were cheating us out of money, they deported us back to China, and in the photos, they pushed us out.
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