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Amy R. Wong

Amy R. Wong is an associate professor of English at Dominican University of California. She lives in Oakland and writes about Victorian literature, media theory, race, and coloniality. icon

Grounding the Humanities

By Perry Guevara & Amy R. Wong

A “regional” humanities abandons academia’s tepid globalism, and confronts local oppressions like prisons, schools, housing, and the police.

Making Therapy Work for Asian Americans

By Amy R. Wong

How does one negotiate the truth within a network of Western racist stereotypes that pathologize the East, alongside equally Western ideas about “insanities”?

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