Anti-Asian America

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
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