Articles for Vincent Chin

A new memoir serves up life lessons from a childhood in a Chinese restaurant
1 year, 2 months ago

A new memoir serves up life lessons from a childhood in a Chinese restaurant

Associated Press  

Many parents tell their children never talk to strangers. “I would have to say that the Chinese restaurant and my parents are probably my greatest teachers in life.” From co-founding the Asian American Writers’ Workshop to producing documentaries like “Vincent Who?” about the 1982 killing of Vincent Chin, Curtis Chin has been championing other Asian Americans for over 30 years. …

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Detroit honors Vincent Chin, Asian American killed in 1982
2 years, 6 months ago

Detroit honors Vincent Chin, Asian American killed in 1982

Associated Press  

DETROIT — Decades before Chinese immigrant Yao Pan Ma was attacked while collecting cans in New York and Thai American Vicha Ratanapakdee was fatally assaulted in San Francisco, Vincent Chin was beaten to death with a baseball bat in Detroit by two white men who never served jail time. Forty years later — and amid a rise in hate crimes …

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Tragic legacy still matters
2 years, 9 months ago

Tragic legacy still matters

China Daily  

Cover of the book. "But yet the sheriff quoted the killer as saying he was having a 'bad day' and they did not, at the time, consider it a racist hate crime," Yoo points out. That "bad day" comment, just like the lenient sentence in Vincent Chin's case, told the victims' families and the Asian community that "you don't count …

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Tragic legacy still matters
2 years, 9 months ago

Tragic legacy still matters

China Daily  

Paula Yoo, author of From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement, shares a light-hearted moment with a reader whose book she is signing at the Holocaust Museum Houston on Feb 27. With a spike in hate crimes against Asians in the US, Paula Yoo's new book …

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Tragic legacy still matters
2 years, 9 months ago

Tragic legacy still matters

China Daily  

Paula Yoo, author of From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement, shares a light-hearted moment with a reader whose book she is signing at the Holocaust Museum Houston on Feb 27. With a spike in hate crimes against Asians in the US, Paula Yoo's new book …

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‘Who Killed Vincent Chin?’ And How Media Depictions Of Asians Have Changed (Or Not)
3 years, 9 months ago

‘Who Killed Vincent Chin?’ And How Media Depictions Of Asians Have Changed (Or Not)

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING On June 19, 1982, Vincent Chin was 27 years old and celebrating his upcoming wedding in Detroit when he was brutally beaten by two white autoworkers. “For the gunman to kill these Asian women, I don’t think he had a clue who these people are.” Choy, a pioneer in Asian American independent cinema and a film professor …

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