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HC Hate Crimes Against the Asian American Community Essay

 

There has been a surge in hate crimes against the Asian-American community recently as discussed in the article you read for the discussion.  Some of these attacks have led to murder.  For this assignment:

Read:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-02-08/daniel-dae-kim-gemma-chan-oakland-attack-racism (Links to an external site.) – watch the seven minute video on the epidemic of hate  in this article

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/09/california-arrest-attack-oakland-chinatown-asian-hate-crimes (Links to an external site.)

Then read this:

https://www.history.com/news/vincent-chin-murder-asian-american-rights (Links to an external site.) – which talk about the murder of Vincent in 1982 which traditionally marks the beginning of a united Asian community and its activism

and watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7BTzvJryjc (Links to an external site.)– the environment that led to the murder

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_P2BSmCw8E– the murder as described by the witnesses

(you are not limited to this readings and videos but your paper must reflect at a minimum the key information from them; you can add to that with outside sources)

Focus of this paper:

  • compare and contrast  the environments and the acts of violence and murders, this should include not only the past but recent events and new organizations and ideas.  My examples are from February and much has already changed since then.
  • both of these events has led to activism in the Asian Community, explain what those methods; then and today. 
  • Has anything changed?