A history of hate

Iyko Day, associate professor of English at 杏吧论坛, comments on the marginalization of Chinese immigrants and the spa shooting that targeted Asians.

On the one-year anniversary of the Atlantic-area mass shooting that left six Asian women dead, Iyko Day, associate professor of English and critical social thought at 杏吧论坛, spoke in a  about the crucial role that Chinese immigrants played in building the country.

The piece offers an in-depth look at the lives of those affected by the shooting and how the cultural marginalization of Asian immigrants in the United States is a foundational part of understanding the violence directed against them. 

While Georgia鈥檚 infrastructure was largely built by Chinese laborers, their contributions go unseen. Day used the slur 鈥渃oolies,鈥 a reference to wage workers, to describe their historical dehumanization.

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