"I am obvious but not consumable," Melissa Watkins writes of her experience in Seoul.

"Don't assume your trend is my normal."

There are many such quotes in Black in Asia, an anthology of experiences by Black writers living in the Asia-Pacific. Through a series of 23 vignettes, the book collects and examines personal accounts of navigating Asia's social spaces that lack the lived experience of what it means to be Black, where media and pop culture often inform common perceptions of Blackness.

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