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From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement

Paula Yoo

Winner of the 2021 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Nonfiction America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti–Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man...

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

It was used as a source for the podcast episode, detailing the anti-Asian racism in Detroit that led to the murder of Vincent Chin.

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I'm one of the first and only people to have met Ronald in person in his house and it was an off the record informal visit so I can't talk about what we talked about. But that was one of the most prof...

— Episode: 405 - Thanks, Smart People

Episode: 405 - Thanks, Smart People

It was used as a source for the podcast episode, detailing the anti-Asian racism in Detroit that led to the murder of Vincent Chin.

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I'm one of the first and only people to have met Ronald in person in his house and it was an off the record informal visit so I can't talk about what we talked about. But that was one of the most profound, deep and very disturbing moments in my life.

you can have compassion but compassion is not mutually exclusive from justice. At the end of the day, now that I know the humanity behind these two men, I can have compassion for them. But I can still think you still should have gone to jail. What you did was wrong. Justice was not served.

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