Re-reading Vincent Chin
Re-reading Vincent Chin
Asian Americans and Multiracial Political Analysis
This chapter provides a new look at the Vincent Chin case. Chin was a young Chinese American from the Detroit area whose beating death at the hands of two white men in 1982, and the light sentences they received at trial, sparked widespread outrage among Asian Americans and helped catalyze Asian American political organizing. The chapter urges scholars and researchers to beyond the received ideas in the established narrative about Chin's murder and to understand how the particular spatial, gender, and class dynamics of Detroit influenced the case. The chapter also specifically details the important involvement of African Americans in the case.
Keywords: Vincent Chin case, Chinese American, white men, Asian Americans, political organizing, class dynamics, Detroit, African Americans
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