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This volume illuminates the multifaceted nature of global anti-Asian racism and the resilience of Asians across the world to resist and counter this bigotry and bias.
List of contents
Foreword: Tackling the Taboo Subject — Christine R. Yano
Introduction: Global Anti-Asian Racism: The Problem that Never Went Away — Jennifer Ho
1. Yellow Peril, Brown Terror: The Global Virus of Anti-Asian Racism across Closed Borders — Rahul K. Gairola
2. Don’t Hate the Player. Between Essentialism and Resistance: Community Organizing against Anti-Asian Racism in Germany — Sara Djahim
3. The Choice of Liberdade: Brazilian Facets of Anti-Asian Racism and the Activism’s Response — Érika Tiemi W. Fujii, Gabriel Akira, Maria Victória R. Ruy, and Mariana Mitiko Nomura
4. The Political Economy of Anti-Asian Discrimination in Africa — Richard Aidoo
5. Savage Script: How Chinese Writing Became Barbaric — Rivi Handler-Spitz
6. Racialization from Home: China’s Response to the Anti-Chinese Movement in Mexico, 1928–1937 — Xuening Kong
7. The Politics of Anti-Asian Discourses in Turkey — Irmak Yazici
8. The Anti-Asian Racism at Home: Reckoning with the Experiences of Adoptees from Asia — Kimberly D. McKee
9. Far-Flung Fetishization: Calling Asian Women to Globally Transcend Hypersexualization — Eileen Chung
10. Translating Guling: Technologies of Language, Race, and Resistance in Sweden — Jennifer Hayashida
About the author
The daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica, whose own parents were, themselves, immigrants from Hong Kong, Jennifer Ho is the director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also holds an appointment as Professor of Ethnic Studies. She is past president of the Association for Asian American Studies and the author of three scholarly books and two edited collections. In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current social climate.
