Global Anti-Asian Racism

This transformational volume on global anti-Asian racism should be required reading for all those interested in why we ought to foster conversations between Asian area studies and Asian diaspora studies and how we might create common ground for anti-racist solidarity. In approaching anti-Asian racism as a global phenomenon, contributors highlight a wide range of critical sites—foreign policy, cultural production, social justice activism, economics, transracial adoption, inter-Asian persecution, alphabetic supremacy, and quotidian life—where discrimination and bias manifest. They also collectively demonstrate how necessary it is to imagine our praxis capaciously if we want academic scholarship to impact the age-old fears that anti-Asian racism foments and reflects. This superbly edited collection teaches us that the complexity of global anti-Asian racism requires communal effort—to cross-pollinate knowledge, to create effective responses, and to explore vulnerability as the site of both oppression and solidarity. -- Tina Chen, Founding Editor of Verge: Studies in Global Asias and Director of the Global Asias Initiative at the Pennsylvania State University Asian American Studies scholars should be thankful that we now have a multi-genre collection that situates anti-Asian racism in a global context. In highly readable prose, Global Anti-Asian Racism offers a breadth to this topic that in turn adds to our theoretical depth around the relationship of racism to colonialism, trauma, capitalism, and most importantly, resistance. This book is highly recommended for anyone wanting a robust understanding of both the threats of intersectional violence across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe and how we can fight back. -- Pawan Dhingra, Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the Faculty, Amherst College and President, Association for Asian American Studies Jennifer Ho’s edited volume on Global Anti-Asian Racism is a thundering response to the clarion call for greater attention to race and racism in Asian Studies. Through powerful anecdote, heartbreaking evidence of fatal racism, and supported with structural analysis, this Asia Shorts volume is necessary reading that does away, once and for all, with the notion that Asian-descended people are invisible, irrelevant, and apolitical. This is a must-teach volume, illustrating the power of a global and antiracist approach to inequality. -- Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University