I teach a course on race in legal history. I always teach Asian American history in that course because you cannot teach serious history of US law as an instrument of racial injustice without the history of Asian Americans...
And today, the patterns of racial violence that are predicated on a notion of Asian Americans as “not belonging” are directly tied to that history.
I deeply hope that we can understand the current horror of racist violence directed at Asian Americans as a product of a shameful history that must be addressed directly.
Race and racism are an architecture, not a binary.
I guess I should have said “is” or “architectures” but you know what I mean.
Ok, should have been more systematic but tweets on this subject were spontaneous. I hope scholars of Asian Am Studies who see this will tweet resources/articles/books that ought to be read. I shared a few people whose work I teach, but I’m not in the field. Turning in now :)
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