HASAN: My first experience with race was, when I was six years old I fell in love with this girl named Janis Mallo and I went up to her in the sandbox and I was like, “Janis I love you!” and she was like, “You’re the color of poop!” And that was memory number one with racism, and I didn’t know what that was, I just took that literally and was like, “What? Ahhh it’s not rubbing off,” like it was very terrifying. MONIQUE: Well, Asian-American to me is um- is a political identification, not like Democratic or Republican, but meaning a way to organize, a group identification that has political implications and meaning, and power and strength.ĪDEEL: Wearing this skin color is a big deal to me, which is why I don’t say I’m just American anymore because America doesn’t see me as just American. RINKU: When my parents talked about Americans they clearly meant white Americans, when they meant any other type of Americans they named them, they said Black people, or Latinos, or Native- American Indians was the language they would use for Native people, so I understood early on that a real American was a White American, everybody else had to be qualified. Like I’d pick up the phone and I’d say hello, and he goes, “I can tell you’re Korean over the phone,” and I was like, “It’s because I am Korean, and I’m on the phone with you,” and he goes, “No, no one should be able to tell you’re Korean on the phone, people should just think you’re American.” Transcript A Conversation With Asian-Americans on Race Asian-Americans confront stereotypes about their community.ĮSTHER: I think the conversations I had about race with my family was primarily lead by my dad, and it would just be in little lessons.
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