Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

Hong Kong has been the place where the memory of Tiananmen Square lives on; Hong Kong people have become more and more committed in their resistance to authoritarian government, and also, not surprisingly, committed to safeguarding their culture and heritage as something distinct and worth preserving.

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.

Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.