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Sto caricando le informazioni... From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement (edizione 2021)di Paula Yoo (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. An account of the 1982 killing of Vincent Chin and its subsequent impact on Asian Americans’ civil rights struggles. Ronald Ebens, the Detroit auto worker who beat Chin to death with a baseball bat, brought a devastating end to Chin’s short but promising life. Adopted from a Guangdong orphanage by Chinese immigrant parents at age 6, 27-year-old Chin was mourning his father’s recent death but eagerly anticipating his upcoming wedding. Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz, were two White men living in a city reeling economically due to competition from Japanese car imports. The question of whether this was merely a drunken fight that got out of hand or a racially motivated hate crime was hotly debated after the two men were sentenced only to probation and a small fine for manslaughter. Despite two federal grand jury trials, neither served any time, but the case marked a turning point for Asian American unity and identity and was critical to progress around documentation of hate crimes and manslaughter sentencing reform in Michigan. This clear and lucid account, based on in-depth research, superlatively conveys the context and significance of the events. The conflicting accounts and explanations are presented evenhandedly, offering readers the opportunity to weigh the evidence and draw their own conclusions. A timely afterword discusses anti-Asian racist rhetoric and violence during the Covid-19 pandemic. An accessible and compelling account of a tragedy that resonates through the decades. (timeline, notes, sources, picture credits, index) (Nonfiction. 13-18) -Kirkus Review Narrated by Catherine Ho. The 1982 killing in Detroit of Vincent Chin by a white man became the defining event in the fight for Asian-American civil rights. From the gut punch of the opening chapters, the author presents a comprehensive and researched look at the tragic event, the people involved, and the legal trials that followed. Catherine Ho's performance evokes the suspense of a true-crime podcast while maintaining sensitivity in the more affecting moments. A must-read for those wanting to grow their knowledge of American civil rights history and anti-racism. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti??Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. Paula Yoo has crafted a searing examination of the killing and the trial and verdicts that followed. When Ebens and Nitz pled guilty to manslaughter and received only a $3,000 fine and three years' probation, the lenient sentence sparked outrage. The protests that followed led to a federal civil rights trial??the first involving a crime against an Asian American??and galvanized what came to be known as the Asian American movement. Extensively researched from court transcripts, contemporary news accounts, and in-person interviews with key participants, From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is a suspenseful, nuanced, and authoritative portrait of a pivotal moment in civil rights history, and a man who became a symbol against hatred an Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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rights trial—the first federal prosecution of a hate crime committed against an Asian American. Readers will be
riveted by the multiple accounts from Chin's family and friends, as well as from the lawyers, defendants, and
eyewitnesses. Well researched and hard to put down, the work demonstrates how this horrible event connects with
today's rise in racism and violence against Asian Americans.