The Spelling Bee: America’s Great Racial Freaks-and-Geeks Show
When the public tunes in to see Indian Americans dominate the Scripps competition, is it to cheer for the precocious minority kids—or to gawk at them?
Sameer Pandya
Sameer Pandya is a lecturer in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of a forthcoming collection of stories, The Blind Writer.
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