https://www.scmp.com/rss/506317/feed Frank H. Wu is William L. Prosser Distinguished Professor at University of California Hastings College of the Law (San Francisco) and president designate at Queens College, City University of New York en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The Vincent Chin murder is why I became “Asian-American”. The victim is at once iconic and obscure. Chin did not set out to represent the Asian-American movement. He was an ordinary guy who died because of racism; that is the only means to understand it because the encounter among strangers was anything but random.  In my hometown of Detroit, Chin was killed by attackers who blamed him in a case of mistaken identity. This was in 1982, at the height – or the depths – of a recession that was... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3089541/how-racist-killing-vincent-chin-sparked-asian-american-movement?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3089541/how-racist-killing-vincent-chin-sparked-asian-american-movement?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Jun 2020 19:00:06 +0000