From the Archives: SAPIENS talks with anthropologist Kyeyoung Park about anti-Asian violence and Asian Americans’ fraught sense of belonging in the U.S.
Artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya draws attention to anti-Asian racism in a public art project for New York City’s Commission on Human Rights.—six of them Asian women—at Asian-owned spas in Atlanta, Georgia. These shootings have become a flashpoint for activists fighting anti-Asian racism, but some say these killings had nothing to do with race. Long himself said the murders were not racially motivated.
We need to reject this kind of binary that says, “If it’s gender-based, then it has nothing to do with racism.” Historically, Asian American women have been racialized and sexualized and objectified. These women in Atlanta, they were targeted not just for their race and gender but also their work—service work—and their immigrant status: all of those things together.Since the 19th century, there’s been this sense of “yellow peril,” particularly when it comes to East Asians.
Anti-Asian violence has deep roots: This illustration captures a mob during an anti-Chinese riot in Denver, Colorado, in 1880.Your work has focused on more recent conflicts, such as the civil unrest that emerged in the 1990s between Black, Latinx, and Korean communities in Los Angeles. This was after a jury acquitted four White police officers of beating Rodney King, a Black man, during an arrest.
But when I listened carefully to African American boycotters during my research, nobody ever had a problem with Korean American “culture.” Theytalk about the lack of business ownership in their own community. So, you have to relate these conflicts to structural inequalities. There is so much anti-Black racism inside all of these public and political spheres—the criminal justice system, and also the media, financial institutions, and education system.
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