Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Writer Paula Yoo was 13 years old and finishing up seventh grade when Vincent Chin was killed. Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman who was celebrating his impending wedding at a strip club in Detroit, when he was bludgeoned to death by a pair of white men. Those men were apparently upset by their perception that … Read more
After a series of shootings at Asian spas killed eight people in Atlanta – six of them Asian women – the country is undergoing a reckoning with anti-Asian racism. Asian American faculty and staff say campuses have a role to play in this moment.
Bethany Long Newman says she saw herself in the victims of last week’s shooting outside of Atlanta, when a gunman rampaged through three spas and killed eight people. Of the eight victims, six were women of Asian descent.
The Asian American Federation gives the media a “C” for its coverage of Asian American communities in New York. With headlines dominated by an alarming surge in hate crimes targeting Americans of Asian descent, we went directly to the community for a review. Leaders there say the media was late to expose the hateful and … Read more
The coronavirus alone has done enough to devastate New York City’s nearly 2 million Asian-Americans, but the recent uptick in anti-Asian violence has also taken a major toll on their mental health.
To help anyone looking to deepen their own understanding, [The Strategist] put together the below list of 15 books on the topic that those experts recommend.