'Afong Moy was a real person' by Irene Hsiao

The year was 1834. Indigenous communities were being displaced from their ancestral homelands on the forced march known as the Trail of Tears. Over two million people of African descent were enslaved. And America's first model minority, Afong Moy, was imported to New York: a 14-year-old girl with bound feet, made to perform for the […] The post 'Afong Moy was a real person' appeared first on Chicago Reader.

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