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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kurashige, Scott (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.