…like for me, those are the people I remember with the Vincent Chin case.” –Curtis Chin, Detroit filmmaker On which lessons from the Vincent Chin case are relevant today: “Today…
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Renewing the Legacy of Vincent Chin for A Younger Generation of Asian Americans
This week, KoreAm joins other Asian American organizations in commemorating the hate crime killing of Vincent Chin. This story, marking the 30th anniversary of the landmark case in Asian American…
Detroit News Reporter Downplays Vincent Chin Murder As A Bar Brawl Gone Awry
A local columnist’s attempt at downplaying the severity of the alleged race-motivated murder of Vincent Chin in 1982 is eliciting an angry reaction from the Asian American community. In his…
Honoring the Legacy of Vincent Chin
Officials of Ferndale, Mich., last month unveiled a memorial in honor of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American killed in a brutal hate crime that would go on to spur a…
Yo Gabba Gabba! in LA and Vincent Who? on DVD
…know about Vincent Chin’s murder until adulthood (despite growing up in the next state over from the site of the murder), I believe Vincent Who? — along with Christine Choy…
Asian Americans: The New White?
…American citizens. In 1982, Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, was murdered during another rising tide of anti-Japanese hysteria. More recently, South Asians have been targeted and murdered following the 9/11…
Attack On Two Indian Men Shocks AAPI Community
…which comprises five civil rights organizations, said Friday that it is “saddened and angered” by the shooting, and pointed to the 1982 hate crime case of Vincent Chin, a Chinese…
The Awkward SFIAAFF 2010 Diaries
…whom I met briefly in Los Angeles this past fall. I believe the mix-up was because Christine Choy made Who Killed Vincent Chin? and I associated her with Curtis Choy…
Chol Soo Lee Day of Remembrance Draws Intimate Crowd in L.A.
…predated the more widely known Vincent Chin incident in 1982 as the first-ever pan-Asian American social justice movement. That’s partly because the case flies under the radar even among Asian…
A Generational Threat: The Disturbing American History Of Anti-Asian Discrimination
…centers of the Midwest. It shouldn’t be surprising that 1982 saw an event that proved pivotal to the political awakening of the Asian American movement: The murder of Vincent Chin…
150 years of Chinese American identity, as told by ‘The Fortunes’
…a transcontinental railroad baron in the late 1800s; Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s first Chinese American star in the 1920s; Vincent Chin, whose hate-crime death in 1982 sparked an unprecedented unification…
Following Her "True North"
…disrespectfully is hard to understand as a child. Then in eighth grade, I first learned about the hate crime [by Detroit autoworkers] that killed Vincent Chin, and that was when…
Sidekicks No More
…Ho Lee and the victims of atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Others are inspired by the legacy of Vincent Chin, the victim of a hate crime in the outskirts…
Coming In 2020 To A TV Screen Near You: ‘Asian Americans’
…Renee Tajima-Peña (“Who Killed Vincent Chin?”) and created by a team of Asian American filmmakers, the show will focus on the profound political, social and economic effects Asians have had…
Free, Free Chol Soo Lee
…social classes and political leanings across the country. The movement predated Vincent Chin, the 1982 hate crime case of a Chinese American Detroit man that is often cited in Asian…