Instead of masking her disadvantages and others’ prejudices with self-sabotage the way her father did, however, Wong confronts and dissects each microaggression until she finds its weak heart. One professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, for example, publicly disparages Wong’s poetry, comparing it to cheap Ikea furniture. Once inside, these students are left to flounder and, moreover, are expected to endure harassment in silence. In a sense, Wong’s father’s story resonates with her own travails as a woman of color in academia, which are explored in a subsequent essay titled “Astonished Enough?” Academic institutions, as Wong depicts them, attract students from working-class backgrounds with the promise of upward mobility and inclusivity. As Wong’s research shows, casinos attract vulnerable communities by masquerading as places where odds are fair and where power circulates.
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