Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part One: Activism and the Law Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Transferred Intent: The Pervasiveness of Hate Crimes Chapter 4 Chapter 2: The Interrelationships between Anti-Asian Violence and Asian America Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Hate Crime on the Internet: The University of California, Irvine Case Chapter 6 Chapter 4: From Vincent Chin to Kuan Chung Kao: Restoring the Dignity to their Lives Part 7 Part Two: Language and Identity Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Some Substitute Stories, Out of School Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Fire at my Face: Growing up Immigrant Part 10 Part Three: Growth and Resistance Chapter 11 Chapter 7: Am I Beautiful Now? Chapter 12 Chapter 8: Newly Immigrated to America: A Narrative of Violence Chapter 13 Chapter 9: To Serve and Protect Chapter 14 Chapter 10: My Noose Part 15 Part Four: Epilogue and Afterword 16 Epilogue 17 Afterword

About the Author

Patricia Wong Hall has been the director, president, and adviser for several Asian American groups for 14 years. She has been a professor, event planner, and diversity consultant. She is also an artist and a poet. Her fiction and non-fiction works have appeared in Asian Week, The Asian American Encyclopedia, Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Culture, and Identity, and other venues. Victor M. Hwang is the managing attorney of the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, directing its Hate Violence/Race Relations project, and co-authoring its annual, national audit on anti-Asian violence.

Reviews

This is a necessary book and, in light of the recent wave of Asian migration to Canada, a timely one as well. The editors have assembled a collection of essays that tear away the theory and rhetoric to expose the human cost of racism whether it is directed against recent immigrants or those who have been here for generations. Anyone involved in human rights will read this book with feelings of anger, sadness, and ultimately, renewal of purpose.
*Kuan Foo, President, Vancouver Association of Chinese Canadians, and Equity and Diversity Program Coordinator for the Law Society of Briti*

This path-breaking anthology—which focuses on incidents ranging from death threats to murderous attacks in the U.S. and Canada—indicates why anti-Asian violence is systemic in North America. Raw emotions are courageously explored by the authors in terms of the psychological, social, and political impact of bein assaulted. The horrific cases report, count, and combat hate crimes of all kinds.
*Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder*

Anti-Asian Violence in North America is compellingly written, authoritative, and essential. I was captivated by the chilling accounts of the anti-Asian experience which are novelistically told and make for fascinating reading. Each chapter is a reflective portrait expressing the sentiment of the fundamental miscarriage of justice that so many Asians feel but are often reluctant to acknowledge.
*Craig Fujii, Civil Rights lawyer, Arizona*

This collection of essays is a unique contribution to North American history, telling the troubling story of violence, both in Canada and the United States, against Asian Americans. It is a story heretofore unknown and it is told as a fascinating series of personal experiences, rather than as a dry historical account. It deserves to be widely read.
*Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States and professor emeritus of Political Science, Boston University*

The fatal impact and consequences of anti-Asian violence should not be confined to knowledge for an elite group of individuals. By using a style that is accessible and not intellectually insulting to anyone, the editors and writers of this book have contributed much to the awareness and scholarship of anti-Asian violence.
*Journal of American Ethnic History, (Fall 2002)*

Provides welcome perspectives on the impact of prejudice and racism.... The authors...collectively offer a useful comparative view of anti-Asian violence in the U.S. and Canada. Suitable for general and academic audiences.
*CHOICE*

Hall and Hwang's collection has value because it reveals the wide diversity of Asian ethnicities, cultures, social/economic conditions, and the myriad experiences of Asians in North America...I highly recommend this book.
*NACADA Journal*