Jeff Yang

“If you go to an “Asian American and Pacific Islander” event, you’re not going to see Samoans, you’re not going to see Tongans, you’re not going to see Māori. We’re half of the acronym, but not even close to half the representation. The Indigenous story is always washed away by the immigrant story. Americans are proud to say that “we’re a nation of immigrants,” but that’s also saying “f*ck the Indigenous people.” We’re proud to be mixed in Hawaii, but we need to acknowledge that that comes at the price of Indigenous people. We can support each other, but there’s a difference between inclusion and erasure.”
― Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now

“IN 1987, TIME published a cover story, titled “Those Asian-American Whiz Kids,” that stands as one of the earliest pop-culture eruptions of a new Asian stereotype: the Asian American (specifically, the East/ South Asian American) as academic overachiever.”
― Jeff Yang, Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now