Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
If there’s one lesson we keep having to learn in the United States, it’s that ignorance breeds hate and hate breeds violence. Below is a list of more than 40 books on the experience of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in this country, including poetry, essays, memoirs, histories and some of the best fiction of … Read more
The conversations represent a fraught yet tender shift in the traditional parent-child dynamic.
Rattled by the recent wave of anti-Asian violence, one New York City public high school with a large Asian student population has set up a program for teachers to escort kids on the subway for their safety.
Notions of the Asian female temptress first emerged in the wake of Europe’s Opium Wars, as colonizers’ control of Asia (especially China and Japan) became associated with control over the bodies of Asian women. “Oriental” women thus came to represent, in part, a sexualized Yellow Peril danger.
The NYPD’s new initiative to tackle rising hate crimes against the Asian community will focus on outreach and “layers of enforcement,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Thursday. Shea said enforcement would include plainclothes officers being deployed in teams “to prevent New Yorkers from becoming victims in the first place.”
The shootings of Asian people at three Atlanta spas earlier this month have set up a unique test for K-12 schools: Will they step up and grapple with anti-Asian racism, offering crucial supports to students and seizing the chance to teach about anti-Asian violence? Or will they overlook it?