Hong's simultaneous eye-rolling and uneasiness are both evident in her description of the incident. Besides the obvious frustration of having white people explain her experiences to her, Hong demonstrates the "vague purgatorial status" that Asian Americans are positioned in. After Sharma refused to accept an egregious act of racialized sexual harassment as a friendly joke, she was quickly rejected as "not Montana enough" (24). [...]United" recounts David Dao's brutal removal from a United Airlines flight. Undergraduate students and even advanced high schoolers may benefit from reading at least parts of the book, particularly the history lessons in "United" and the anti-capitalist critique in "Indebted.
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (review)