I have an op-ed in Newsweek about the racial politics of mass shootings. Writing this article reminded me of a book I read many years ago called Collision Course, and made me go back and find the passage about how OMB invented the concept of “Asian American Pacific Islander,” and set the limits of whiteness at the Afghan-Pakistan border.
It's not "conservative tears" mugs that liberals buy, it's "male tears" or "white tears" or "white male tears".