Robert Zhu
ASA 002 Section 2
In Why Ferguson Matters to Asian Americans, Soya talks about Asian invisibility when reflecting on the Ferguson police brutality case. In America, most cases of Asian American deaths due to violence or racial brutality is often unheard of - not because it doesn’t happen, but because it gets ignored. Whenever I am home with my parents for dinner, they always turn on the local Chinese news broadcast and the channel covers stories and cases involving Asians in America that I don’t hear about in American outlets. Even if there is a case that involves the brutality and death of an Asian due to racism, there is rarely a movement that follows - or at least a lack of media coverage on it. Soya mentions that “Asian Americans often end up somewhere in the chasm between blackness and whiteness”. I agree because compared to the case of Ferguson where there was a huge outrage and movements revolving that death, Asian Americans don’t get much recognition. This is concerning because it makes it seem as if violence towards Asian Americans is non-existent, and it makes it much harder to start a revolution for Asians.
Question: Why do American media outlets choose not to cover hate crimes toward Asian Americans?
References:
CGTN America. (2017, March 16). Frank Wu discusses hate crimes against the Asian American community. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwiE_AuUiZU
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