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zeinm1980 's review for:
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir
by Eddie Huang
Not a bad read if you're looking for fluff and some observations about hip-hop and food. I wished throughout, however, that Huang would turn his razor-sharp critiques against himself for a moment and see that many of the ways he handled being subject to racism were available to him because of his fabulously privileged upbringing. He offers no honest reflections on how his economic status allowed him to actively resist the pressure to fulfill the image of a model minority ("Uncle Chans" in his parlance, an off the mark appropriation of Uncle Tom). Instead, we are meant to understand that his being gifted a brand new Benz for his 16th birthday is one of the worst things that happened to him. His one major brush with the law (staged at the elite and expensive Rollins College) ended in him being sent to Taiwan to stay with family, not prison. Huang tries to cast himself as a hustler, but it just fell flat in my opinion.