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Recap: Columbia’s conversation on violence against Asian Americans Recap: Columbia’s conversation on violence against Asian Americans Emma Cho / Zoom Screenshot “It has caught a lot of people by surprise.” The surge in anti-Asian hate crimes in major U.S. cities has started an important and long-awaited conversation for this country. In an event hosted by the Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights on April 14, Ellen Wu, associate professor of history and director of Asian American studies at Indiana University Bloomington, and Jiayang Fan, a staff writer for ...

For decades, the model minority myth has kept Asian Americans out of important equity conversations and held individuals back in school, at work and in life.

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Share It has been over a month since 21-year-old white American Robert Aaron Long shot dead eight people at three massage parlours in Cherokee County and Atlanta city on March 16, 2021. Six of them were women of Asian descent but despite Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms stating that the mass shooting should be seen as a hate crime, Long has not been charged with this yet. The Atlanta incident brought world attention to the xenophobic attacks Asians in America have been facing, both verbal and physical, ever since the coronavirus pandemic started. Studies have indicated that attacks on A...

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 identity.” The identified suspect, Robert Aaron Long, told officials that the motive of these attacks...