The Forgotten History of the Purging of Chinese from America
The surge in violence against Asian-Americans is a reminder that America’s present reality reflects its exclusionary past.
The surge in violence against Asian-Americans is a reminder that America’s present reality reflects its exclusionary past.
The history of racism against Asian Americans and how the Covid-19 pandemic and political rhetoric resurfaced racist attitude towards Asian Americans.
We can’t be silent in the face of rising violence against Asian Americans.
Curator Notes
One-third of Asian Americans fear the rising of threats, physical attacks and violence against them.
The forces that plague Asian Americans all stem from hatred of people who look different.
Violent attacks on Asian Americans is representative of the significant anti-Asian rhetoric that has occurred over the past year amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Vincent Chin case serves as a wakeup call to address anti-Asian bias and racial intolerance.
Even though the earlier decades of U.S.-China relations was that of engagement, it has become clear that the U.S. and China saw the end goal of engagement in deeply distinct terms now.
Korean Americans have decried law enforcement’s and English-language media’s framing of the incident as a sexually motivated crime and not a racially motivated one.
Too often, attention to nonwhite groups is only as pressing as the injuries that they have suffered.