Anti-Asian America
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Asian American Studies Minor at Washington University in St. Louis invite leading scholars to talk with us about how we can understand Anti-Asian America.
Violence against and hatred of Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans stems from a toxic, unique brew of racial supremacy, xenophobia, and for some communities, histories of colonialism. Anti-Asian violence is expansive, from subtle to extreme, driven by practices including scapegoating, flattening diverse cultures into a single racialized category, sexualized fetishizations casting Asian Americans as "perpetual foreigners."
Panelists:
- Shefali Chandra, Associate Professor History; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian American Studies (minor), Washington University in St. Louis
- Robert Chang, Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle University of Law
- Chris Eng, Assistant Professor of English, Washington University
- Lynn Itagaki, Associate Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri
- Dina Okamoto, Professor, Department of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society at Indiana University