![]() Gold was found at Sutter’s Mill near San Francisco, which opened the gate to a flood of gold miners (about 300,000) from not only the United States but also from all over the world. NTD: The 1848 Gold Rush in California exacerbated a latent anti-Chinese sentiment. history to suspend immigration for a specific nationality. TN: One of the most well-known examples of anti-Asian discrimination is the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which was the first in U.S. And, in the most recent of a long series of anti-Asian/Asian American racist manifestations, the murders of six Asian American women in Atlanta in March. Nguyễn Thị Điểu: Just to mention a few from recent decades: the Ku Klux Klan attacks against Vietnamese fisherfolk in Texas from 1979 to 19 murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, who was beaten to death by two white attackers on the assumption that, being “Japanese,” he had stolen work from American auto-workers (the two attackers were convicted of manslaughter but did not do jail time) the Cleveland Elementary School shooting that took place in Stockton, California, in 1989, in which the white gunman discharged his weapon at children, killing five and wounding 32, all of them refugees from Southeast Asia the 1992 anti-Korean riots in Los Angeles, which gave birth to the “Rooftop Koreans” meme and the 9/11-related anti-Muslim reaction that targeted peoples of South Asian descent, often regardless of religion. Temple Now: What are some of the most notable examples of racism and discrimination the Asian American community has experienced in the past? We spoke with her about the history of several Asian communities in the U.S., the racism and prejudice they have faced, and the impact of colonialism and war on the changing image of Asians in the U.S. Over the past year, the Asian American community has been inundated by a wave of racially motivated attacks, including verbal abuse, vandalism, beatings and the shootings that claimed the lives of six women of Asian descent in Atlanta in March.įor Nguyễn Thị Điểu, an associate professor of history at the College of Liberal Arts, the violence is part of a chain stretching back as far as the 19th century.
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