A Complicated History of Han Chinese Anti-Blackness

My parents groomed me to be a model minority. It kept me from being an ally.

Frankie Huang
ZORA
Published in
9 min readJul 31, 2020

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Photo illustration. Photos (Getty Images): Mark Wallheiser/BIPS/Stringer

When my high school classmate Regina Lee* was 17, she gave a presentation in U.S. history class on the topic of why affirmative action enables “reverse racism” that punishes Asians for being academically overachieving.

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Frankie Huang
ZORA
Writer for

Beijinger American changeling, Renaissance woman, feminist, storyteller, translator, strategist, illustrator. Encore Public Voices Fellow 2020 She/her