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To Combat Anti-Asian Hate Crimes, We Have to Call Them What They Are Discrimination against Asian people in this country has long been minimized, if not outright ignored. Many factors contribute to this erasure, including xenophobia, which casts Asian Americans within the “perpetual foreigner” stereotype—people who will never fit into the United States—as well as the model-minority myth, which presents all Asian people as “crazy rich,” perfect at academics, aligned with whiteness, a...

Alleged perpetrator of hate crimes against Asian women in Atlanta was not just having "a bad day," write four Vera House educators.

Photo courtesy of Alisa Nascimento I rarely hear people recall their Rome semester as anything less than amazing or life-changing. In more ways than one, my time in Europe reshaped my view of myself and the world.  I Googled “how to look less like a tourist in Italy.” Only after I arrived in Europe did I realize that none of this mattered. My initial worry was that I’d be seen right away as an American. In retrospect, I never considered that I might stand out even more for being Asian. ...

Amanda Nguyen ’13 posted an Instagram video in early February calling on journalists to cover the recent wave of violence against Asian Americans, who have been falsely blamed for the spread of COVID-19 after some conservatives, including former President Donald Trump, began referring to it as the “China virus.” Nguyen’s video went viral and its impact went as far as President Biden, who denounced the violence in his first prime-time presidential address a month later. That video was th...

Boston Protesters Rally To Stop Asian Hate After Recent Violent Attacks Alex Yang, 10, and Kayi Hueng, 7, of Newton, protest discrimination and violence against Asian-Americans at a rally on Boston Common, April 11, 2021 Tori Bedford / GBH News Last month’s fatal shooting in Atlanta that left six Asian women dead inspired demonstrations, marches and protests throughout Boston over the weekend, as local groups mobilize with the hashtag #StopAsianHate. The horrific event also inspired Phoeb...

Courtesy / GVSU Asian women — and wounding one other person has left the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community reeling and fearful during a year that has already increased the number of violent racist attacks against them. In a study and analysis released by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino which examined hate crimes in 16 of America’s largest cities, results revealed that while such crimes in 2020 decreased overal...

In the recent Atlanta shootings that killed eight people, six were Asian women. In the news articles and social media content that has been produced since…

Another video, shared to TikTok by a leader of the march, Jeannie Jay Park, shows Rihanna dancing to chants of “my body, my business” and “this is what community looks like”. “I was yelling at Rihanna all day yesterday,” the activist writes in a caption. “And I had no idea.”  The movement to stop Asian hate has grown in the last few months, following a disturbing spike in anti-Asian hate crimes tied to the coronavirus pandemic. Last month, a report found that 3,800 Asian Americ...

On March 16, eight people, including six Asian women, were killed in shootings at three massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia. Because the targets were mainly Asian women, many were left to wonder if this constitutes a hate crime, but that was yet to be determined. The FBI defines a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender or gender identi...

April Fool’s Day instead. Sounds good to me! The cult classic 80’s slasher kicks off when a group of college students spends spring break at the secluded island estate of their wealthy classmate, Muffy St. John. But what starts out as a fun weekend turns into something more sinister. Muffy is very fond of practical jokes and sets up numerous gags throughout her mansion. But, when friends begin going missing – and turn up dead – they realize that they’re trapped on the isolated isl...