Poet Cathy Park Hong on Minor Feelings and Anti-Asian Racism in the Age of COVID
b'In her new book of essays, "Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning," poet Cathy Park Hong weaves memoir with cultural criticism to explore topics of racial identity, shame, politics and capitalism. Hong describes \\u201cminor feelings\\u201d as "emotions built from the sediments of everyday racial experience and the irritant of having one\\u2019s perception of reality constantly questioned or dismissed.\\u201d It\\u2019s a feeling that\\u2019s particularly acute during the pandemic, which she says has \\u201cunmasked\\u201d a vicious anti-Asian racism. We\'ll talk to Hong about the book, Asian American identity and anti-Asian racism.'