WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN?

Hello. WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN? is a key film not only in Asian American film history but in the *on-going* history of Asian American civil rights. More broadly, WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN? is one of the most important political documentaries, as Bill Nichols identifies it, and it earned Renee Tajima-Pena and Christine Choy an Academy Award nomination. We will view and discuss it in class this week.

Behzad Sandila on Twitter: "#APAHM Cinema Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987)  Dir: Renee Tajima-Peña (@rtajima ) & Christine Choy Regarded as a harbinger  of Asian American activism, it was nominated for Best

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https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/03/27/981718272/how-vincent-chins-death-gave-others-a-voice Links to an external site.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/anti-asian-hate-crimes-increased-339-percent-nationwide-last-year-repo-rcna14282 Links to an external site.

~Professor Kim

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