From colonialism to Covid: Viet Thanh Nguyen on the rise of anti-Asian violence Books


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O n 16 March eight people were killed in Atlanta, Georgia, by a 21-year-old white man: all but one were women, and six were Asian. The shootings take their place in a much longer story of anti-Asian violence. The Covid pandemic has given us a particular insight into this phenomenon: verbal and physical assaults against Asians have accelerated in the US over the last year, with 3,800 documented incidents involving spitting, knifings, beatings, acid attacks – and murder . The majority of the victims have been women. Though the Atlanta killings took place in Asian massage parlours, the shooter has...