Much of the conversation and advocacy surrounding anti-Asian racism has failed to connect it with anti-Blackness, and has itself been mired in carceral and anti-Black thinking. By Jordana Allen-Shim Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a massive spike in documented cases of anti-Asian violence. A February 9 report from Stop AAPI Hate, “the...
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Our Communities Don’t Need To Prove Our Worth To White Supremacists
When people in marginalized communities try to prove our “worth” to white supremacists, it’s a time-consuming distraction from the real work ahead of us. By Kiran Misra With a South Asian American at the top of the Democratic Party ticket this election cycle, two party conventions where the issue of South Asian American identity was...
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South Asians, It’s Time to Call Out Our Antiblackness
The obsession with skin-lightening in the South Asian community is not a different problem than the attacks against Africans. Both are rooted in antiblackness. by Sanjana Lakshmi Two summers ago, I attended the Young Leaders Institute program through SAALT (South Asian Americans Leading Together), and the theme that year was antiblackness in the South Asian community. There,...