As the nation enacts a new historic anti-lynching bill into law, experts say there needs to be increased attention on a dark and largely untold piece of Asian American history: lynchings that terrorized communities.
People hold signs during a Nationwide Day of Action rally against anti-Asian violence at the Flushing neighborhood in the Queens borough on March 27, 2021 in New York. Photo: Emaz/VIEWpress via Getty Images, experts say there needs to be increased attention on a dark and largely untold piece of Asian American history: lynchings that terrorized communities.
when a conspiracy to commit a hate crime results in death or serious bodily injury. Some of the first anti-Asian crimes that could fall under this definition were recorded in the 1800s at the height of white economic anxiety.in Los Angeles. It was one of the most brutal mass lynchings in U.S. history.
These riots were part of a massive campaign across the U.S. now known as the Driving Out, which saw mobs regularly attack Chinese immigrants.and is a member of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, told Axios he himself didn't know about the 1871 massacre until he helped prepare the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act two years ago. "It was never taught to me and it's not talked about to most people," he said.
The Asian American experience can't be compared to the Black experience, but "we absolutely have to tell the full truth of our country, both the good and the bad," he noted. "That is how we make our country stronger." The U.S. must educate people on how lynching was used to "demand subordination" not just among Black Americans but also other racialized groups, according to Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of the forthcoming book "Asian American Histories of the United States."
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