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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/25/2022
The Forgotten Violence of the US-Philippines Relationship
by Adrian De Leon
By declaring a relationship of "friends, partners, and allies" between the United States and the Philippines, and embracing the regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., the United States concealed its violent conquest of the islands and its ongoing support for authoritarian rule there.
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SOURCE: LAist
9/23/2022
Los Angeles Project Aims to Name Every Interned Japanese American
The government's rosters of interned Japanese Americans are incomplete and error-ridden. A new project seeks a complete documentation of the missing names.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/14/2022
Los Angeles to Memorialize 1871 Anti-Chinese Massacre
Architect Annie Chu describes the task of using design and space to evoke an emotional connection to the victims of mass violence whose identities and stories have been largely lost.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/2/2022
Legal Scholar: "Diversity" a Weak Substitute for Justice, Opened Door to SCOTUS Killing Affirmative Action
by Richard Thompson Ford
The cause of equality was dealt a fatal blow when courts and colleges shifted the focus of affirmative action from fighting racism to promoting diversity, argues legal scholar Richard Thompson Ford.
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8/7/2022
The COVID Era is the Latest Episode of Medical Scapegoating of Asian Immigrants
by Catherine Ceniza Choy
From smallpox to COVID, Asian Americans have been blamed and attacked for supposedly causing disease, while their contributions to American health have been ignored. This medical scapegoating and the violence that often follow it demonstrate the need to teach more Asian American history.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
5/31/2022
The Asian-Canadian Gay Pioneer Theorist of Sexuality
by Laurie Marhoefer
Li Shiu Tong, the partner of better-known German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, was an important theorist and activist whose once-lost writings anticipated today's politics of gay rights and liberation.
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5/22/2022
California Isn't a Liberal Sanctuary where Asian Americans are Concerned
by Hao Huang
Anti-Chinese racism and violence has always been part of the nightmare underside of the California dream.
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SOURCE: Mellon Foundation
5/17/2022
Mellon Foundation Event: Chinese American History, Asian American Experiences (May 19)
Historians Erika Lee and Mae Ngai discuss the history of Chinese Americans in the context of Asian American history and American multiculturalism with Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander on May 19.
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5/1/2022
Recent Violence Shows the Need to Teach More Asian American History
by Alan J. Singer
The targeting of Asian Americans for violence and harassment shows the need to teach more of the history of Asian ethnic groups and acknowlege legacies of exclusion and discrimination.
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SOURCE: Religion News Services
4/20/2022
Penn Law Prof Amy Wax's Anti-Indian Rant Excludes Inconvenient History
by Suhag Shukla
Attributing Indian American criticism of racism to "resentment" of "the west" is rooted in ignorance of the colonial looting of the Indian subcontinent and the experiences of South Asians in general and Hindus in particular in the United States.
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SOURCE: The Nation
4/18/2022
American Militarism is the Key to Understanding Today's Violence Against Asian Women
Since the Philippine-American war in the 1890s, the sexual exploitation of Asian women has gone hand in hand with American militarism in the Pacific. It's foolish to pretend that this history has nothing to do with attacks on Asian American women today.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
3/17/2022
Two Artists Unearth Hidden Histories of LA
Devon Tsuno and Alan Nakagawa discuss the histories and daily life of the Japanese American community in Midtown Los Angeles, an area that has largely been erased from Angelenos' maps of their city.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/16/2022
Don't Use Anti-Asian Violence to Throw More Money at Police
by Crystal Jing Luo
Business interests in Oakland have hijacked the safety concerns of Asian Americans to support arming police in service of real estate development that threatens low-income housing.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/15/2022
Teaching Asian American History is Needed to Understand Complexity of Racism
by Kathryn Gin Lum
Asian American history shows members of Asian ethnic groups have been ranked in a hierarchy of races at some moments, and grouped together with other "heathen" groups as disqualified for inclusion in American society. Understanding this history helps to understand racism as a political order, not a response to innate difference.
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SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune
2/14/2022
Shirley Ann Higuchi: Sen. Lee is Obstructing Establishment of National Historic Site for former Internment Center
The Utah Senator is blocking unanimous consent rules for a bill that would establish a historic site commemorating the internment of 8,000 Japanese Americans at Camp Amache in Colorado.
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SOURCE: TIME
1/24/2022
How the Pandemic and Anti-Asian Violence Spurred 2 States to Change History Lessons
The introduction of requirements to teach the history of Asian Americans is bumping up against laws in other states that would make it difficult for teachers to address topics like violence, immigration restrictions, and internment.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/24/2021
150 Years Ago, a Mob Attacked Los Angeles's Chinese Community
by Reece Jones
It's essential to understand white supremacy as a national phenomenon that defended the color line against multiple groups and linked white identity to the nation's borders.
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SOURCE: CNN
10/18/2021
St. Malo, Louisiana, Site of Earliest Filipino-American Settlement, Threatened by Climate Change
More than a century ago, long before the Civil War, St. Malo was the first permanent Filipino settlement in the United States. Preserving the settlement's history is now a race against time.
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SOURCE: Public Books
10/7/2021
History Answers the Inexplicable: Interview with Madeline Hsu
by Shirley Lung
"Asian Pacific Americans is a census category. It does not reflect the lived experiences, in fact, of many ethnic Asian persons living in the United States....But it is politically a necessity, in part because of the racial projects at work. These killings were racially motivated."
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SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune
9/19/2021
Local Professor Building History of San Diego's Japanese Americans
San Diego City College professor Susan Hasegawa describes a public history project detailing the story of San Diego's Japanese Americans before and after internment, and a librarian who supported interned children with books and messages of support.