Fight Anti-Asian Racism
Resources to #StopAsianHate.
Опубликовано 01 июля 2022
Facing Racism
Diseases and outbreaks have long been used to rationalize xenophobia: HIV was blamed on Haitian Americans, the 1918 influenza pandemic on German Americans, the swine flu in 2009 on Mexican Americans. The racist belief that Asians carry disease goes b
This TIME magazine article profiles individuals in New York City who were the victims of anti-Asian racist attacks during the height of the coronavirus lockdown in the summer of 2020. It also examines the role former president Donald Trump’s “China virus” rhetoric played in fanning the flames of hate.
We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation
Jeff ChangAsian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
Helen ZiaThe Model Minority Trap
The face of Tou Thao haunts me. The Hmong-American police officer stood with his back turned to Derek Chauvin, his partner, as Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds and murdered him. In the video that I saw, Tou Thao is in
Despite a long history of discrimination against Asians in America’s immigration policies and the many wars waged by the US against Asian countries in the wake of World War II, Asian Americans came to be viewed as model minorities in the 1960s and 70s. It felt like a step in the right direction, a shield against the worst hate, but this stereotype has come under increased scrutiny in more recent years, as it’s proven to drive a wedge between Asians and other minority groups and provide little protection against racially motivated crimes. This article by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen (“The Sympathizer”) dives deep into the myth to show how “the slur of the ‘Chinese virus’ has revealed how fragile our acceptance and inclusion was.”