"In his book Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes that immigrant communities like San Jose or Little Saigon in Orange County are examples of purposeful forgetting through the promise of capitalism: "The more wealth minorities amass, the more property they buy, the more clout they accumulate, and the more visible they become, the more other Americans will positively recognize and remember them. Belonging would substitute for longing; membership would make up for disremembering." One literal example of this lies in the very existence of San Francisco's Chinatown. (p 196)"
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Pulitzer Prize winnersNovelists from the United StatesAcademics from the United StatesMacArthur FellowsVietnamese Americans
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Stephanie Foo What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma (2022)
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