Why we forget U.S. violence toward Chinatowns
Cities across the West are apologizing for attacks against their Chinatowns in the past. Why now?
Headlines From The Times · Gustavo Arellano, Melissa Kaplan, Mario Diaz, Lauren Raab, Shannon Lin, Denise Guerra, Frank Shyong, Shani Hilton
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Show Notes
This fall, a commemoration in downtown Los Angeles marked the 150th anniversary of when a mob lynched 18 Chinese men and boys — one of the biggest such killings in American history. The recent memorial comes in a year when many similar remembrances have bloomed across the United States. Anti-Asian hate crimes have soared during the pandemic, but that has also spurred an interest in learning the long, and long-hidden, history of such bigotry.
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