We Love You, Super H Mart! (or) H Mart as Heterotopian Question

by Alex Paternostro • July 19, 2021

With so many stories in H Mart’s rows of aisles—of movement, difference, and belonging—of which each new, potentially racing shopper also adds a part, what does the store itself say behind that veil? Even the products themselves possess backgrounds and tales of labor and change, so for a place that for some is like a “piece of home,” and for others like me, a means to widen the palate, how can we think about the store’s position as an ethnic yet expansively American supermarket?