Wang received more questions than the other two authors, Rainier added. On Monday, Dorothy Rainier, president of the Woman’s Club of Larchmont, said in a statement that Wang gave a very moving and warmly received talk. And now that I'm there, I'm doing the event, they're holding it against me.' 'I had to do all these things to get their attention, their invitation. 'It's usually a scenario where I'm being treated differently than the white writers and the straight writers,' he said. 'I recognized similar situations, where Black authors/creatives still have to justify our presence in a space, even when our work already spoke enough on our behalf to bring us into those spaces,' Åkerström, who is Nigerian American, said in an email.Īlexander Chee, a Korean American author who identifies as queer, can recount instances at literary festivals or readings that Wang described. On Twitter, Lola Akinmade Åkerström, a writer and photographer based in Stockholm, Sweden, responded that authors, especially women, of color deserve better. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.

Wang said that multiple times, the moderator mispronounced her name (phonetically spelled on her website, “Chien Joolee Wong”) she was questioned about how she received her education (she and one author both went to Yale, but only she was questioned) and her speech was interrupted by dessert service that attendees said wasn't experienced by the other authors, both of whom are white.

The dining room event had more than 100 people in attendance. And like she didn’t matter.”Īt the $60-a-plate luncheon, Wang experienced a series of incidents that would leave her in tears, recalling what other authors of color warned her about when speaking in front of primarily white audiences.

“Like that little girl who was called illegal, who was treated like (expletive). “I just felt like I was that little girl again,” Wang, who went on to attend Yale Law School, told the Journal News/lohud. On Wednesday, Barack Obama included it as one of his favorite books of 2021. It's received acclaim from the Times and National Public Radio. Her book, which reached third on the New York Times' nonfiction best-sellers list, recounts moving from China at 7 years old and living undocumented for five years in New York. Racism in Westchester: Yorktown board cuts ties on San Gennaro fest with former GOP leader who made racist slur Abuse in Catholic Church: Victims want closure as Child Victims Act cases drag, blame Archdiocese of New York

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