Angie Chuang is an associate professor of journalism at American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C., whose research focuses on race and media. She is the author of The Four Words for Home, a dual memoir about an Afghan family in the wake of 9/11 and her own Chinese American family.
We all know the gesture, the words now: Khizr Khan thrusts his pocket constitution at 28 million television viewers of the Democratic National Convention. Ghazala Khan stands beside him in traditional Pakistani clothing.
"Donald Trump,” Khizr Khan says. “Have you read the United States Constitution?"
A political-convention mic drop, Variety’s Sonya Saraiya called it.