Join students for an interactive teach-in contextualizing the rise in anti-Asian violence amid COVID-19 within the long history of anti-Asian racism. Learn how the Asian American student movement emerged from transnational, multiracial struggles that continues today through UIC Asian and Asian American student activism. A discussion centering student voices and experiences will follow.
Panelists include:
Anna Guevarra, Founding Director and Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies.
Michael Jin, Assistant Professor of Global Asian Studies and History
Gayatri Reddy, CCSAA Co-Chari and Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Anthropology
Karen Su, Project Director of UIC AANAPISI Intiative and Clinical Assistant Professor of Global Asian Studies
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https://diversity.uic.edu/events/yellow-peril-covid-19-teach-in/
