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"I'm Picking a Side": Thick Solidarity, Antiblackness, and the Grammar of the Model Minority
Sat, April 10, 2:30 to 4:00pm EDT (2:30 to 4:00pm EDT), SIG Sessions, SIG-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans Paper and Symposium SessionsAbstract
In this essay I explore the (im)possibilities of building cross-racial coalitions within the “progressive dystopia” of San Francisco (Shange 2019). Specifically, I underline my interlocutors’ efforts to carry out the unsettling study of interrogating the relationship between the model minority myth and antiblackness as part of the process of developing inchoate cross racial solidarities. Given the racial context of San Francisco—as a predominantly White and Asian American city—I explore how Chinatown Local youth organizers worked to cultivate what Roseann Liu and Savannah Shange (2018) have theorized as “thick solidarity”.