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This article comments on essays written by Andrew Asibong, Sandra Park, and Michelle Stephens in response to our theories about racial rage, racial guilt, and the uses of anger in Asian America. It argues that until we address the history of an unthought Asian American subject in the face of the subject of an untaught Asian American history, we will not be able to undo the dissociated knowledge constituting the disturbing thought of race at the heart of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Undoing such dissociated knowledge promises to yield both emotional literacy and racial kinship such that racial melancholia can be rendered productive and persecutory guilt can be transformed into reparative guilt.