Know, You

“If, as Hong argues, the unprotected consciousness knows America’s capacity for violence even before literacy, then it follows that the racialized subject is never without racial cognition—it may be concealed for reasons of safety or repressed under the dictates of an inherently racist alphabet, but it is ever-present.”

Read full review in Canadian Literature, no. 252.

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