‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Will Not Liberate Us

Delusions of Whiteness drove this author to reject the ‘model minority’ stereotype

Taylor Moore
ZORA
Published in
7 min readFeb 25, 2020

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Photo: Beowulf Sheehan

TThe term “Asian American” used to be radical. It was coined in 1968 by Berkeley students empowered by the Black Panthers and anti-imperialists. The national grassroots group Asian American Political Alliance was one of the first attempts to create an activist…

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Taylor Moore
ZORA
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Taylor Moore is a freelance writer living in Chicago, IL. You can find her online at www.taylorgmoore.co and on Twitter at @taylormundo.