The “Chinese Virus”: A History of Epidemics, Violence, And Anti-Asian Racism
09.10.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar
The coronavirus pandemic has been accompanied by an epidemic of anti-Asian violence, fueled by a president who has labelled COVID-19 “kung flu” and “the Chinese virus.” This panel features Beth Lew-Williams, Associate Professor of History at Princeton University and the author of The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion and the Making of the Alien in America (Harvard University Press, 2018...