SU Professors reflect on the history and reality of Anti-Asian racism in America.
Syracuse University Law Professor Mary Szto explains such racism is rooted in history, such as laws excluding Asian immigration and internment camps that held Asians captive during World War Two.
More recently, the narrative switched to claim that Asian people are models of assimilation.
“We wanted to promote the model assimilative minority myth, which as we know was fulfilling several goals, right,” said Szto.
“To unfortunately drive a wedge among minorities and then to basically, again put Asians in a box, by labelling them as a model of assimilation.”