13 Modern Love/Modern Hate 13 Modern Love/Modern Hate
13.1 Hyper-sexualization of Asian Women 13.1 Hyper-sexualization of Asian Women
13.1.1 Kyoko Takenaka 13.1.1 Kyoko Takenaka
13.1.1.1. Kyoko Takenaka, Film & Documentary
Watch the film, Home, and explore Kyoko Takenaka's music and art.
13.1.1.2. Kyoko Takenaka recorded racist things men said in bars. For many, it hit home
Kyoko Takenaka recorded racist things men said in bars. For many, it hit home
13.1.2 The Weird History of Asian Sex Stereotypes (Video) 13.1.2 The Weird History of Asian Sex Stereotypes (Video)
The Weird History of Asian Sex Stereotypes | Decoded | MTV News
13.1.3 2021 Atlanta Spa Murders 13.1.3 2021 Atlanta Spa Murders
13.1.3.1 2021 Atlanta Spa Murders 13.1.3.1 2021 Atlanta Spa Murders
1. The Atlanta Spa Shootings and Charges. On March 16, 2021, Robert Aaron Long shot and killed eight people and wounded another. The shootings took place at three spas in the Atlanta area. Six of the victims were Asian women. Long, an evangelical Christian, claimed that he committed the killings because of his sex/pornography addiction, and that he had been a customer at two of the spas, which he saw as sources of sexual temptation.
A sheriff's deputy in the Cherokee County Sheriff’s office, Capt. Jay Baker, stepped down after criticism for his statement that the shooter had "a really bad day" before the shootings.
Paul Andre Michels, 54; Xiaojie “Emily” Tan, 49; Daoyou Feng, 44; and Delaina Ashley Yaun-Gonzalez, 33, were killed at a spa in Cherokee County, and Elcias Rocendo Hernandez Ortiz, had severe injuries when he was shot in the face. Robert Aaron Long pleaded guilty to all four charges related to the spa shootings in a Cherokee County court in July 2021; he was sentenced to life without parole.
Long still faces the death penalty for charges relating to the killings of Suncha Kim, 69; Soon Chung Park, 74; Hyun Jung Grant, 51; and Yong Ae Yue, 63, in Atlanta.
2. A Century of Racialized Harassment of Asian Women. The spa shootings built upon a “century of sexualizing, objectifying and fetishizing Asian women,” starting as early as the 1875 Page Act. Read A Century Of Objectifying Asian Women: How Race Played A Role In Atlanta Shootings.
See also Fetishized, sexualized and marginalized, Asian women are uniquely vulnerable to violence; The history of fetishizing Asian women in Orientalist tropes; A Sociologist's View On The Hyper-Sexualization Of Asian Women In American Society
13.1.3.2. The Gendered Racialization of Asian Women as Villainous Temptresses (2021)
The Gendered Racialization of Asian Women as Villainous Temptresses
13.2 Recent Hate and Violence Directed Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders 13.2 Recent Hate and Violence Directed Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
13.2.1. Two Years and Thousands of Voices: What Community-Generated Data Tells Us About Anti-AAPI Hate
Two Years and Thousands of Voices: What Community-Generated Data Tells Us About Anti-AAPI Hate
Stop AAPI Hate’s new report, Two Years and Thousands of Voices, makes clear that if you’re just following news stories, you’re not getting the full picture of what AAPIs are experiencing. Showcasing the nearly 11,500 hate incidents reported to Stop AAPI Hate’s reporting center between March 19, 2020 and March 31, 2022.
The report also includes findings from a 2021 national survey, Stop AAPI Hate conducted in partnership with Edelman Data & Intelligence.
Key findings of Two Years and Thousands of Voices include:
- Non-criminal incidents comprise the vast majority of the harmful hate incidents that AAPI community members experience.
- Harassment is a major problem. Two in three (67%) of nearly 11,500 incidents involved harassment, such as verbal or written hate speech or inappropriate gestures.
- AAPI individuals who are also female, non-binary, LGBTQIA+, and/or elderly experience hate incidents that target them for more than one of their identities at once.
- One in three (32%) parents who participated in the Stop AAPI Hate/Edelman Data & Intelligence survey were concerned about their child being a victim of anti-AAPI hate or discrimination in unsupervised spaces and on the way to school.
- Hate happens everywhere — in both large cities and small towns, in AAPI enclaves and in places where AAPI communities are few and far between.
Two Years and Thousands of Voices: What Community-Generated Data Tells Us About Anti-AAPI Hate
13.2.2 Anti-AAPI Violence 13.2.2 Anti-AAPI Violence
13.2.2.1. Ohio man charged with hate crime, accused of attacking Asian-American student, blaming him for Covid-19
13.2.2.2. Murder of Michelle Alyssa Go in NYC (2022)
NYPD make arrest in connection to the death of an Asian woman who was pushed in front of a train
13.2.2.3 Murder of Yao Pan Ma (2021) 13.2.2.3 Murder of Yao Pan Ma (2021)
Yao Pan Ma, a 61-year-old man, was assaulted in New York City in April 2021, in a brutal unprovoked attack He died from his injuries on December 31, 2021.
The life of Yao Pan Ma, who died of an attack prosecutors say was racially motivated
An Asian man injured in an unprovoked attack in New York last April has died, officials say
13.2.3 Anti-AAPI Rhetoric 13.2.3 Anti-AAPI Rhetoric
13.2.3.1. The Slur I Never Expected to Hear in 2020
By Cathy Park Hong
13.2.3.2. Daily Show/Ronny Chieng on Jesse Watters
13.2.3.3. Most Asian Americans are against the recall, but some haven't forgiven Newsom for his nail salon remark (Sept. 12, 2021)
13.2.3.5. Bay Area gym criticized for racist, anti-Asian posts (2022)
13.2.3.6. Korean-Americans Speak Out After Recording Racist, Homophobic Incident At In-N-Out (2002) (Video)
A video recorded on Christmas Eve “shows Arine Kim and Elliot Ha being confronted by a man at a California In-N-Out:” Korean-Americans Speak Out After Recording Racist, Homophobic Incident At In-N-Out.
13.2.4 Offensive? Insensitive? Ignorant? Does intent matter? 13.2.4 Offensive? Insensitive? Ignorant? Does intent matter?
13.2.4.1. Asian Americans are (still) under attack. Here are easy ways you can help (Mar. 22, 2021)
Asian Americans are (still) under attack. Here are easy ways you can help
How helpful is this article? Note the following statement: "Even Asian Americans who have never been to China have been accused and assaulted." Does that signal to the reader "Even innocent Asians have been accused and assaulted"? Implying (unintentionally?) that there was some basis for accusing and assaulting the "dirty Chinese" who caused the pandemic?
13.2.4.2 Georgetown Faculty Incident (2022) 13.2.4.2 Georgetown Faculty Incident (2022)
Georgetown Law Professor Franz Werro Slammed for Calling Student ‘Mr. Chinaman’
Georgetown Law professor apologizes after criticism for calling a student a racial slur
Yet Another GULC Professor Makes Racist Statement
After reading the above articles, consider the following:
1. Does context change your reaction to Werro's statement?
2. Does Werro's apology appear to be genuine? What result do we want when someone uses an offensive term? Is an apology and a commitment to education and inclusion enough? If not, what else is necessary?
3. What of Werro's explanation that he used what he thought was an English translation of a French term that is not derogatory - that "has no pejorative meaning in that language, such as Frenchman or Englishman"? Aside from obviously offensive terms, such as the "N-word," how should people learn about all offensive terms when learning new languages?
Related reading:
Investigation into US professor sparks debate over Chinese word; The Fight Against Words That Sound Like, but Are Not, Slurs
13.2.4.3. Anti-Asian Messages at Occidental College (2022)
In late 2020, an Occidental College student sent a text message to a friend that read: “all asian people need to die.”
She followed with another text saying Asians are “responsible for the pandemic so they need to die for that too.”
A text message that 'all Asian people need to die' has Occidental College in an uproar
The text messages that sparked this incident when they were shared widely on social media on February 2 were originally sent in a private exchange between two non-Asian students in late 2020. The messages were eventually shared with others, who then reported them to College staff in November 2021.
Responding to Anti-Asian Messages at Oxy | Occidental College
13.2.4.4. Penn Law rebukes professor who said U.S. would be 'better off with fewer Asians' (2022)
Penn Law rebukes professor who said U.S. would be 'better off with fewer Asians'
Related reading:
Law prof's remarks about 'Asian elite' put her back at center of controversy
13.2.4.5 Gwen Stefani: "I Said, 'My God, I'm Japanese'" 13.2.4.5 Gwen Stefani: "I Said, 'My God, I'm Japanese'"
Gwen Stefani: "I Said, 'My God, I'm Japanese'"
Can Japan issue a cease and desist to Gwen Stefani?
In Japan, the public is largely perplexed by the anger toward Gwen Stefani being shown in the U.S. for her recent Asian cultural appropriation. As you read, consider how the Asian American experience in the U.S. differs from the Asian experience in Japan, China, etc., and how this indifference could be because of lack of exposure to the hate and violence that is and has been experienced by AAPI in the U.S.
Japan shrugs as Americans fume over Gwen Stefani ‘appropriation’
13.2.4.6. Hamline Adjunct Fired for Showing Picture of the Prophet Muhammad
Erika López Prater, an adjunct professor at Hamline University, said she knew many Muslims have deeply held religious beliefs that prohibit depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. So last semester for a global art history class, she took many precautions before showing a 14th-century painting of Islam’s founder.
In the syllabus, she warned that images of holy figures, including the Prophet Muhammad and the Buddha, would be shown in the course. She asked students to contact her with any concerns, and she said no one did.
In class, she prepped students, telling them that in a few minutes, the painting would be displayed, in case anyone wanted to leave.
Then Dr. López Prater showed the image — and lost her teaching gig.
Hamline Adjunct Fired for Showing Picture of the Prophet Muhammad
As you read the full article, consider the incident from the various perspectives of those involved. What do you make of the opinion of Dr. Safi?
Omid Safi, a professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, said he regularly shows images of the Prophet Muhammad in class and without Dr. López Prater’s opt-out mechanisms. He explains to his students that these images were works of devotion created by pious artists at the behest of devout rulers.
“That’s the part I want my students to grapple with,” Dr. Safi said. “How does something that comes from the very middle of the tradition end up being received later on as something marginal or forbidden?”
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Dr. Safi, the Duke professor, said Hamline had effectively taken sides in a debate among Muslims. Students “don’t have to give up their values,” he added. “But some part of the educational process does call for stepping beyond each one of our vantage points enough to know that none of us have the monopoly on truth.”
Dr. Safi has his own personal image of the prophet. When he was 14, his family fled to the United States from Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war. He packed an image of Muhammad holding a Quran into one of the family’s few suitcases.
That image now hangs on his wall at home.
13.2.4.7. History repeats itself as states move to ban Chinese citizens from buying property
History repeats itself as states move to ban Chinese citizens from buying property
13.3 Additional Resources 13.3 Additional Resources
The additional resources in this section are optional readings; they have been compiled because of their historical importance, relationship to other readings, or because they are otherwise noteworthy.
13.3.1. Bridging the Gap: The Role of Asian American Public Interest Organizations in the Pursuit of Legal and Social Remedies to Anti-Asian Hate Crimes (2000)
7 Asian L.J. 139
13.3.2. Penn State Law co-hosts inaugural workshop to support Asian American women (2021)
Penn State Law co-hosts inaugural workshop to support Asian American women
Optional Reading: Decitizenizing Asian Pacific American Women
13.3.3. Schools Rethink History Lessons Amid Anti-Asian Racism (Jan. 24, 2022)
Time
13.3.4. Asian American Inclusion in Legal Academia (2022)
Rosa Kim and Katrina Lee
13.3.5. Center for Asian Law • Penn Law
13.3.6. Anti-AAPI Racism in Immigration and Criminal Law
February 2023 Policy Report
https://www.aasc.ucla.edu/aapipolicy/summit2022/reports_feb10/Motomura_report.pdf