We wish more art exhibitions would focus on cuisine. A new art show touches on so many important aspects of the history of Asian Americans in Dallas.
The history of Asian Americans in Dallas is told through their cuisine at a new exhibition.Dallas is a place with many stories. The city's history is often eclipsed by rhinestones, oil money, bottled blondes and presidential tragedies, and while these things are undoubtedly a large part of who we are, there is danger in maintaining a limited narrative. Most of the stories that lie outside of it tend to be woefully overlooked and sometimes completely lost to history.
This is part of what drives her work: Drenka wants to break down the sense of otherness that is imposed upon Asian Americans by amplifying Asian American stories and voices. Over the next decade, white Dallasites made life increasingly difficult for Chinese business owners. They harbored a deep resentment toward their success, as it contradicted their ingrained racist ideologies about the inferiority of non-white communities. Predictably, they resorted to some very on-brand behavior by spreading xenophobic lies and stoking existing racial tensions. They falsely claimed that patrons of Chinese businesses would contract mysterious diseases .
“[We] wanted to shift the narrative on the Asian community, to make people aware that Asian people have been here for as long as everyone else, and they have earned their right to claim ownership of this city," Drenka says. “Since we don’t have a lot of tangible information or a solid historical record of a lot of this history, we have to reimagine it with art and creativity, and oral history, to piece together an impactful story,” Drenka says.
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