Asian American History 
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SOURCE: TIME
4/7/2021
How a New Kung Fu TV Series Is Reclaiming Much More Than Just the Martial Arts
The reboot of the 1970s series reflects a history of activism by Asian Americans for greater representation and control of their image in popular culture.
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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.
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SOURCE: TIME
3/30/2021
A ‘History of Exclusion, of Erasure, of Invisibility.’ Why the Asian-American Story Is Missing From Many U.S. Classrooms
by Olivia B. Waxman
"There are more than 22 million Asian Americans (about 6% of the U.S. population), representing nearly 50 ethnic groups and speaking more than 100 languages, and they make up the fastest growing racial or ethnic group among eligible U.S. voters. Yet little of their story is taught in K-12 U.S. schools."
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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.
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SOURCE: NPR
3/27/2021
How Vincent Chin's Death Gave Others A Voice
Paula Yoo's book for young adults describes the beating death of Vincent Chin in 1982 and the way his death catalyzed an Asian-American movement.
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SOURCE: Asian American Writers' Workshop
3/25/2021
Exploring Black and Asian American Lesbian Archives: Aché and Phoenix Rising
Two newsletters by and for queer communities of color in the Bay Area are a primary source for understanding how Black and Asian American lesbians created and maintained community.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/23/2021
The Dehumanizing Logic of All the ‘Happy Ending’ Jokes
by Anne Anlin Cheng
"The figure of the eroticized-yet-degraded Asian woman can be readily found in movies and onstage. One of the most visibly racist, sexist, and inhuman tropes to emerge out of Western imperial history, this woman nonetheless hardly registers in the public consciousness as someone who has suffered discrimination.
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SOURCE: Letters and Politics
3/22/2021
Working for a Living: The Depiction of Asian American Women in Film & Theater
Cinema scholar Celine Parreñas Shimizu discusses the ways that film has contributed to social perceptions of Asian and Asian American women.
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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.
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SOURCE: KARE
3/18/2021
U of M Professor Testifies During Hearing on Anti-Asian Violence
Historian Erika Lee testified to Congress on Thursday about anti-Asian violence in the United States, in a hearing scheduled before the killing of eight people in metro Atlanta highlighted the urgency of the issue.
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SOURCE: NBC
Racism, Sexism Must be Considered in Atlanta Case, Experts Say
Historian Ellen Wu explains that the particular racial and sexual stereotyping of Asian American women derives from the history of immigration, moral panics over prostitution, and the involvement of the United States military in a series of wars against Asian people.
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SOURCE: WNYC
3/18/2021
The Deep History of Anti-Asian Violence in the U.S.
Beth Lew-Williams of Princeton discusses the long history of violence against Asian immigrant communities with WNYC's "The Takeaway."
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/18/2021
How Racism and Sexism Intertwine to Torment Asian-American Women
Ellen Wu of Indiana University is among the scholars offering insight on the historical roots of the sexual fetishization of American women and its connection to violence.
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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.
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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.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/17/2021
Why This Wave of Anti-Asian Racism Feels Different
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong discusses the status of Asian Americans in the US and the growing hostility inspired by the pandemic.
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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.
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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.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/8/2021
Transcript: Race in America: History Matters with Erika Lee & Helen Zia
Historian Erika Lee and Asian-American civil rights activist Helen Zia discuss the way that COVID-19 has reignited hostility against Asian Americans.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/6/2021
We Need to Put a Name to This Violence
Attacks on Asian Americans in many cities have raised comparisons to Black-Korean tensions in Los Angeles at the time of the 1992 riots, but writer Jay Caspian Kang argues the comparison isn't apt, and more work needs to be done to determine whether a wave of hate crimes is happening, and if so, why.
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