Scott Kurashige is the President of the Bo
ggs Foundation and author of American Peril\; the Violent History of A
nti-Asian Racism. \;
This probing account shines a new light
on the problem of anti-Asian violence and inspires us to build lasting so
lidarity. \;
He will be in conversation with Mia White.
D uring the COVID-19 pandemic\, racist demagoguery fomented a campaign of te rror against Asian Americans. But these attacks were part of a much longer pattern that made anti-Asian racism integral to the outbreak of white sup remacist\, misogynist\, and colonial violence across 175 years of U.S. his tory. Written in the radical spirit of Howard Zinn\, American Peril repres ents the culmination of thirty-five years of study and activism by award-w inning scholar Scott Kurashige.
\nFrom the lynching of Asian immigra nts during the exclusion era to the ongoing slaughter of Asian civilians b y the U.S. military\, the book connects domestic and global events that ha ve been erased from the official record. Going beyond victimhood\, Kurashi ge traces the rise of Asian American community protest and activism in res ponse to the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin and other overlooked tragedies. W hile many have worked to legislate and prosecute hate crimes\, Kurashige a rgues that hope lies in grassroots activism for multiracial solidarity.
\nMia Charlene White\, PhD\, is an interdisciplinary public scholar wh ose \;teaching and research explores how the seeds of democracy can be grown at the intersection of racial\, environmental\, climate\, and housi ng justice. Mia is a Faculty Fellow at the Institute on Race\, Power and P olitical Economy at The New School\, and she will soon join the People&rsq uo\;s Free School at the University of Orange as the Belle T. Walker and R ose Johnson Inaugural Chair for Reparative Planning. \;She and her fam ily have lived in Maplewood since 2016.
\n\nJames and Grace B oggs worked to build the movements for Civil Rights and Black Power\, as w ell as cross-racial and international solidarity. The Boggs Foundation car ries on their work.
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