RLC Network Lucas Kwong

Lucas Kwong

Lucas Kwong is a writer, musician, and assistant professor of English at New York City College of Technology. He’s written at his newsletter Eschaton Twist, Faithfully Magazine, Inheritance Magazine, Institute for Christian Socialism’s Bias Magazine, Public Books, Journal of Narrative Theory, and Victorian Literature and Culture. He is also assistant editor for New American Notes Online. His music can be found at brotherkmusic.com. He and his wife are diehard New Yorkers.

At The Chapel’s Door: How Bruce Springsteen’s Jeep Ad Displays the Roots of Anti-Asian Violence

Lucas Kwong

February 12, 2021

General, Politics, Race

With all due respect to the literal house of worship that stands at the center of the lower 48, we should not be working to preserve a chapel founded on denigrating “the Chinese” as godless, Black Americans as criminal, or Indigenous Americans as non-existent. We should be tearing down that figurative chapel instead, sundering flag from cross once and for all.