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  • SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
    4/5/2021

    Without Asian American Studies, We Can’t Understand American Racism

    by Min Hyoung Song

    The establishment of Asian American Studies and ethnic studies programs has been essential to putting Asian American scholars (and scholars of Asian Americans) in position to engage the mass media around events like the Atlanta shootings. As those programs are under fire, it's time to recognize their value. 

  • 4/4/2021

    What Comes Next?

    by Stephanie Hinnershitz

    In 1979, Asian American leaders testified to Congress about problems of discrimination, opportunity and hostility facing their communities. The official response largely enshrined a "model minority" myth that obscured ongoing problems behind a celebratory narrative of inclusion. Waves of anti-Asian violence in the 1980s belied that story, and warn us not to minimize the climate of hostility Asian Americans face today.

  • SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
    3/23/2021

    Letters From an American: March 23, 2021

    by Heather Cox Richardson

    Beginning in the 1970s, the National Rifle Assocaition evolved into a political lobbying organization increasingly enmeshed with the conservative movement. Two recent mass shootings are a tribute to the organization's success. Congratulations. 

  • 3/22/2021

    Historians Address the Metro Atlanta Shootings

    Historians try to untangle the threads of anti-Asian prejudice, misogyny, evangelical religion, masculinity and gun culture that appear to have contributed to the killing of eight people in Atlanta-area spas.

  • SOURCE: The Baffler
    3/19/2021

    Rage and Retribution

    The bungled police statements after the Atlanta shootings reflect the way that moral panics about sexuality have historically worked to make Asian immigrant women the targets, rather than the protectees, of law enforcement. 

  • SOURCE: New York Times
    3/19/2021

    The Deep American Roots of the Atlanta Shootings

    Emerging facts about the Atlanta shootings last week suggests that the incident reflects the sexualized portrayal of Asian women that grew out of colonialism and American military involvement in Asia.

  • SOURCE: MSNBC
    3/18/2021

    The Atlanta Shootings, Vincent Chin and America's History of Anti-Asian Racism

    by Kevin M. Kruse

    Vincent Chin was murdered in the Detroit area in 1982. His killer's identity was never in doubt, but authorities hid the anti-Asian animus motivating the attack, helping the attackers to receive only probation on manslaughter charges from a judge who publicly defended the character of the attackers. 

  • SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
    3/11/2021

    Violence against Asian Americans is Part of a Troubling Pattern

    by Stephanie Hinnershitz

    Since the late 19th century when mobs of white workers attacked Chinese communities in the West, Asian Americans have taken the lead in documenting racist violence when public authorities have failed to do so.   

  • SOURCE: The Drift
    2/2/2021

    First-Person Shooter Ideology​: The Cultural Contradictions of Call of Duty

    by Daniel Bessner

    "Right now, this one game is teaching millions of young Americans about the epic struggle between their government and the Soviet Union, a century-defining cataclysm that resulted in tens of millions of deaths, reshaped world history, and engendered the ideological struggles that presently bedevil the public sphere." But the lesson is one of cynical resignation to today's state of endless war. 

  • SOURCE: Perspectives on History
    12/15/2020

    Working With Death: The Experience of Feeling in the Archive

    by Ruth Lawlor

    A researcher of sexual assault against women by American troops in World War II confronted the problem that the archive captures only a traumatic event and leaves the human being affected in the shadows. 

  • SOURCE: New York Magazine
    11/2/2020

    Trump Closes Campaign With Bold Anti-Democracy, Pro-Political Violence Message

    "This is not the message you broadcast if you are trying to expand your minority coalition. No sane political strategist would advise a candidate to close by emphasizing his opposition to democracy, support for political violence targeting his rivals, and contempt for popular public-health officials."

  • 9/6/2020

    Trump Can Use MS-13 as a Prop Because the US Won't Acknowledge a Role in Creating It

    by Roberto Lovato

    Roberto Lovato's new book "Unforgetting: " examines how policing in the United States, including a combined crackdown on immigration and gang activity led by William Barr after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, helped create MS-13 as a transnational criminal gang and a political symbol of fear to be exploited in election years. 

  • SOURCE: New York Times
    8/28/2020

    The Massacre That Emboldened White Supremacists

    by William Briggs and Jon Krakauer

    The Colfax Massacre, sparked by white supremacists' refusal to accept a state election result, set in motion a series of legal rulings that made it virtually impossible for the federal government to prosecute civil rights violations by private citizens, ensuring that mob violence and racial oppression would continue. 

  • SOURCE: New York Times
    8/30/2020

    Trump, Vicar of Fear and Violence

    New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow writes that Trump is just the latest in a long line of American politicians who have stoked racist fears for advantage.