American peril : the violent history of anti-Asian racism /
"During the COVID-19 pandemic, racist demagoguery fomented a campaign of terror against Asian Americans. But these attacks were part of a much longer pattern that made anti-Asian racism integral to the outbreak of white supremacist, misogynist, and colonial violence across 175 years of U.S. his...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2026]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part one : How America erased the violent history of anti-Asian racism (1850s-1970s). The violence of exclusion
- The violence of empire
- From mass incarceration to mass murder
- How Asian women become targets of violence
- The violence beyond Vietnam
- Part two : How the murder of Vincent Chin remade Asian American identity and politics (1980s-present). Martyr in the motor city
- White grievance and the rise of the counterrevolution
- Naming and confronting hate crimes
- When the police cause more harm
- Building community in the face of violence
- Epilogue.