A pair of Levi's jeans from the 1880s were recently sold at an auction for $76,000.
The San Francisco-based company said the phrase was added on its products after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, prohibiting all Chinese laborers to the U.S. for 10 years, even though they had already made contributions to the country.
“It comes out of intersecting strands of racializing the Chinese as inferior, as 'disease carriers,' as economic competition,” said Dr. Catherine Ceniza Choy of UC Berkeley. “One of the things that we can learn is that the current surge in anti Asian hate and violence against Asian Americans, especially around what has been called the 'Chinese virus' is not new.”
Levi’s said in a statement that it thought the slogan would “improve sales and align with the views of consumers at the time."The company added that they are fully committed to “advocate for real equality and to fight against racism in all its forms as it persists today.”“Most of the jeans that are known are in institutions,” he said.This article tagged under:
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