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JMRL to host anti-Asian violence presentation Photo: clipart.com
May 24, 2021, News Release
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and JMRL is honored to host Dr. Sylvia Chong, Director of the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at the University of Virginia, for an important and timely virtual presentation entitled The History of Anti-Asian Violence in the U.S. This Zoom program is scheduled for Tuesday, May 25 at 7:00pm.
The recent wave of anti-Asian hate crimes, coupled with mass shootings in Atlanta and Indianapolis that targeted a large number of Asian victims, have received increased levels of attention in the national media. Coverage of these events has also exposed widespread ignorance of the history of Asian Americans’ presence in the U.S., along with the acts of mass violence, harassment and discrimination that they have faced.
Faculty voice: Asian America’s invisibility has roots in history
Sometime in the early 1950s, a revelation struck Tadachi Kohara, a Japanese American survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing in 1945: “White people believed that we survivors had a bad disease.” Worse yet, the disease was deemed contagious, something that Kohara believed was evidenced by a peculiar way in which white people acted: “On a bus, they escaped from a seat next to a Japanese.” Born in San Fernando, California, in 1929, and returning to America from Japan (where he spent the war years) in 1950 as a young man, Kohara is one of many U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, a subject I explore in my book “American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
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