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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, and high-achieving with minimal effort. The model-minority myth is used by many people to assert that...

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.   During our class trip to Greece, my “otherness” stood out. While exploring one of the many bo...

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 the starting point for Friday’s virtual JFK Jr. Forum discussion, “Protecting the Civil Rights of ...

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 Phoebe Tian, a 14-year-old high school student from Lexington, to write a song. “It is time when we...