The New Yorker writes of “Biting the Hand,” by LMU Professor Julia Lee, “In this affecting memoir, a literature professor whose parents emigrated from South Korea writes about her “inheritance” of what Koreans call han—a culturally specific mixture of rage and shame—as well as the insidious tendency of “racial shame” to separate “people of color from one another.”
Source: The New Yorker
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