In a Role Reversal, Asian-Americans Aim to Protect Their Parents From Hate
The conversations represent a fraught yet tender shift in the traditional parent-child dynamic.
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In Wake Of Violent Bias Attacks, Brooklyn Tech High School Teachers Offer Subway Protection To Asian Students
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.
What America Teaches White Men About Asian American Women
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.
NYPD announces new initiative to combat anti-Asian hate crimes in NYC
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.”
Anti-Asian Violence: What Schools Should Start Doing About It
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?
Eugene Lee Yang of ‘Try Guys’ releases documentary about anti-Asian hate in America
Eugene Lee Yang of “The Try Guys” released a documentary about the racism and violence Asians and Asian Americans have faced in the United States.