Episode Details

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:

The wave of Anti-Asian hate crimes over the past year have largely been attributed to blaming the Chinese for the spread of the Coronavirus. However, Asian Americans have experienced hate, social injustice and discrimination since they started immigrating to the U.S. I've invited Richard Chen on to the podcast to talk about the history of discrimination toward asian americans, and some of the major events that have galvanized Asian Americans in the past. Richard is Creator of StopAAPIHate.us, Board member of Asian American Action Fund.

Founding moderator of the FB group Asians Now a FB group of Asian diaspora for social awareness.

Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

• What motivated Richard to create StopAAPIHate.us
• Why the model minority myth is problematic
• Asiatic exclusion league
• Yellow Peril
• Page Act
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Geary Act
• Tydings–McDuffie Act
• Asiatic Barred Zone Act
• Immigration Act of 1924
• Burning of Santa Ana Chinatown
• Japanese internment camps
• The Murder of Vincent Chin
• Rodney King Incident and the 1992 LA Riots

Related Links:

Richard Chen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/richardc020

Asian American Action Fund: https://aaafund.org

AsiansNOW, a 14,000 member Facebook group to raise the Asian diaspora's social awareness: http://facebook.com/groups/asiansnow

StopAAPIHate.us: https://stopaapihate.us

Xenophobia and racism related to the COVID-19 pandemic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophobia_and_racism_related_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic#New_York

Listen Now