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Let’s Talk! Supporting Asian and Asian American Students
Through COVID-19Webinar Series
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Anti-Asian Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Michael Liu, Ph.D., social justice author, historian, and activistCarolyn Chou, A.B., Executive Director, Asian American Resource WorkshopArshad I. Ali, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, George Washington UniversityTaharee A. Jackson, Ph.D., Expert Consultant and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Manager, the National Defense University
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Michael Liu, Ph.D.
Michael Liu was born and spent his early life in Chinatown. He played in the rubble of his friends’ homes, when the state created what is today’s I-93. After graduating from Swarthmore, he received his Masters Degree in Engineering at Northeastern and a second in Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst. After a long academic hiatus, he also received a Ph.D. in Public Policy at University of Massachusetts Boston. During that hiatus, he has been active on social justice and community issues especially concerning Boston Chinatown. He helped create social justice groups such as the Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW), the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), the Chinatown Housing and Land Development Task Force, the Asian Political Caucus, the Asian American Political Agenda Coalition, the Coalition to Protect Parcel C, and API Movement. In the 1990’s, he was executive director of the Asian American Resource Workshop. He is currently active working with his partner, May Louie, on the Activist Training Institute, preparing young organizers. He is alsoon the board of the Chinatown Community Land Trust, and occasionally volunteers at AARW and CPA. He has tried to bridge the Asian American communities to other communities, having participated in actions of the Third World Jobs Clearinghouse, the mayoral campaign of Mel King, and the founding of the Boston Rainbow Coalition. Through his work at UMass Boston, he contributed to the creation of the New Majority Coalition, that tried to continue the values of the Rainbow Coalition. He has worked on numerous city, state, and presidential campaigns and was one of the plaintiffs in a minority coalition around fair redistricting. He recently retired from his position as a researcher at the Institute for Asian American Studies. He co-authored an interpretive history of Asian American organizing, The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism. He is now completing a history of Boston Chinatown.
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White and Chinese Miners 1850s
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Harper’s Weekly 1870
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Sign from Watsonville Riot against Filipino farm
workers, 1930
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Rock Springs Wyoming Massacre
1885
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Railway Construction 1860s
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Harrison Avenue,
Chinatown, 1893
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Boston Chinatown Raid, 1902
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Chinese Laundry in Concord,
1930s
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Hmong American Day, MN 2014
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Perpetual Foreigner
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Removal of Japanese
Americans, Los Angeles,
1942
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Assaults on MA
Southeast Asian
American 1980s
John Trinh 1988
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Justice for Vincent
Chin Campaign
1983
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Twenty Trillion Dollar Lawsuit filed by Freedom Watch
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Carolyn Chou, A.B.
Carolyn Chou is a queer, mixed-race, Chinese American organizer, living and working in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. Carolyn is currently the Executive Director of the Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW), where she supports the leadership development and organizing around issues of racial, economic, and social justice of a diverse base of progressive Asian Americans, primarily young adults. The AARW is a political home for pan-Asian communities in greater Boston. It is a member-led organization committed to building grassroots power through political education, creative expression, and issue-based and neighborhood organizing. Before AARW, Carolyn worked with recent immigrant youth in Dorchester through the Phillips Brooks House Association at Harvard College, where she worked with other college students to support community-based programming and develop their social justice leadership skills.
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Arshad I. Ali, Ph.D.
Dr. Arshad I. Ali is an educator, youth worker, and scholar who studies youth culture, race, identity, and democratic engagement. He earned a master’s degree at Harvard University and a doctorate at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia University and University College London.
Dr. Ali’s research examines the construction of racial identities through exploring questions of democracy, liberalism, and modernity in the lives of youth. The fundamental question he is concerned with is how young people from historically marginalized communities come to make sense of urban life in the U.S., and how they find meaning in their lives through understanding the manifestations of political and cultural ideologies in daily action.
Dr. Ali has written extensively on issues relating to the cultural geography of Muslim student surveillance. He examines how economies of surveillance are scaled, both legally and ideologically, and how these scales of surveillance become manifest inthe lives of Muslim undergraduates in the United States. Dr. Ali is co-editor (with Tracy Lachica Buenavista) Education at War: The Fight for Students of Color in America’s Public Schools, a collection of essays commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence.
Prior to pursuing a Ph.D, he served as the founding director of MAPS, a university based outreach and political education program working with students in South Los Angeles. He has actively been a part of youth, community and student organizing for over fifteen years.
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Taharee A. Jackson, Ph.D.
Dr. Taharee A. Jackson is an Expert Consultant and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Manager at the National Defense University. She is also a certified federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) counselor and the Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention Program (SHARP) coordinator at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, DC. Dr. Jackson joined the Department of Defense after a 17-year career as a professor of education and teacher educator, most recently at the University of Maryland, College Park. There she served as an Assistant Professor of Minority and Urban Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership. She holds a Magna Cum Laude B.A. from Harvard University in Psychology and Spanish; a Master of Education degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Human Development and Psychology; and a Ph.D. from Emory University in teacher education, multicultural education, and urban education reform.
Dr. Jackson served as a public and private school teacher prior to becoming a diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging consultant for the past 16 years. She is an expert trainer and Lead Equity Specialist for the Equity Literacy Institute, a certified Trainer-of-Diversity-Trainers by the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI), and her clients as an independent consultant and trainerhave included universities, schools and school systems, non-profit organizations, federal agencies, and every branch of the military. Dr. Jackson has served as the inaugural Chester M. Pierce Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, where she was tasked with assisting the nation’s oldest university in its quest to affirm diversity across the campuses of its college and each of its graduate schools.
Dr. Jackson resides in Gaithersburg, MD. She enjoys volunteering, traveling, biking, kayaking, and picnicking at her father’sgravestone at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Our Old Friend Whiteness: What it Means to be
Asian “American” during COVID-19Dr. Taharee A. Jackson
National Defense UniversityDepartment of Defense
21 April 2020
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“I’m never getting Chinese food again”
https://abc7news.com/coronavirus-china-us-death-age-what-is-xenophobia-definition/5977541/
1 March 2020
“Fight the virus, not the people!” SF Chinese-American leaders protest xenophobia following COVID-19 outbreak
By: Anser HassanABC7News, Bay Area
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When Your Ethnicity Equals a Virus…
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First Exclusion, Then Aggression
https://nypost.com/2020/01/30/anti-china-sentiments-racism-spreading-along-with-coronavirus/30 January 2020By: Sophie Carsten, Reuters
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/03/uk/coronavirus-assault-student-london-scli-intl-gbr/index.html3 March 2020East Asian Student assaulted in “racist” coronavirus attack in LondonBy: Jack Guy, CNN
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What happens when Asian Americans are not the problem, but the SOLUTION? (Yang)
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/04/20/asian-american-doctor-racism-coronavirus
20 April 2020
Asian American Doctor On Experiencing Racism During The Coronavirus Pandemic, Feeling “Powerless” In Helping Patients
By: Jeremy Hobson, Serena McMahonWBUR, Boston NPR
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What does it mean to be Asian “American”1. We are “forever foreigners”
2. Whiteness is synonymous with Americanness
3. Racism ITSELF is a pandemic (e.g. Police Chief Carmen Best, Seattle)
4. EVERYONE is affected by Anti-Asian racism, or ANY racism
→Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. →Asian ethnicity = Coronavirus = …scapegoat of the day (e.g. border wall)
5. Asian Americans are part of the SOLUTION to coronavirus. (ex. Yang’s Op-ed). Human brilliance is sprinkled EVENLY across the “races.” This requires a HUMAN solution.
6. Anti-racism requires cross-racial coalition and ACCOMPLICES!
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Telling the Story of AAPI Hatehttps://www.asianpacificpolicyandplanningcouncil.org/stop-aapi-hate/
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Let the Dialogue Continue!
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Anti-Asian Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Q&A with PanelistsMichael Liu, Ph.D., social justice author, historian, and activistCarolyn Chou, A.B., Executive Director, Asian American Resource WorkshopArshad I. Ali, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, George Washington UniversityTaharee A. Jackson, Ph.D., Expert Consultant and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Manager, the National Defense University
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"Let’s Talk! Supporting Asian and Asian American
Students Through COVID-19" Webinar Series
Living through a Pandemic: Understanding, Coping, and Finding Meaning (Thursday, 4/29 at 7-8:15 p.m EST)During this webinar, professionals with experience in education and cross-cultural mental health will provide an overview of common stressors affecting high school and college students and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially Asian American and international students. They will also share helpful coping strategies that can be utilized by students, parents, educators, and institutions to promote mental health and resilience.• Justin Chen, MD, MPH; Executive Director, MGH Center for Cross-Cultural Student Emotional Wellness, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical
School• Ying Wang MD, owner, Bucks Psychiatry, an integrative psychiatric care clinic in Pennsylvania. Columnist at Letters To Strangers• Nora Yasumura, MSW, Class Dean at the Hotchkiss School, Diversity Consultant, and former Pan Asian Advisor at Dartmouth CollegeRSVP: https://bit.ly/2XUHT4j
Predictable Parenting for Unpredictable Times: Promoting the Success and Wellbeing of Asian and Asian-American Students through
COVID-19 (Wednesday 5/6 at 4-5:15pm EST)
The Challenges Chinese International Students are Facing During COVID-19 and How Parents Can be Supportive of Them (Saturday 5/9 at 9-10:30pm EST)疫情下留学生们正在经历什么？父母该如何支持帮助ta们? (Saturday 5/9 at 9-10:30pm EST)
Understanding and Supporting Asian International Students during COVID-19 (TBD)
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