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‘Almost 150 years earlier, a famous writer made a similar attempt to satirize anti-Asian racism…’

April 9, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

“[W]ith a similar result: It blew up in his face”:

Harte had another reason to regret the poem: Many readers missed the ironic tone, interpreting the parable as a sincere endorsement of anti-Chinese racism. A pirated edition of the poem published in Chicago made this painfully clear. It featured drawings of a slant-eyed Ah Sin getting attacked by a mob of whites, without an ounce of irony.

This was only the beginning.

 

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