Scott Kurashige is author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles and coauthor, with Grace Lee Boggs, of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century.

• Contents  Author’s Note  Introduction  Part I How America Erased the Violent History of Anti-Asian Raciscm (1850s–1970s)1 • The Violence of Exclusion2 • The Violence of Empire3 • From Mass Incarceration to Mass Murder4 • How Asian Women Become Targets of Violence5 • The Violence Beyond Vietnam  Part II The Murder of Vincen Chin Remade Asian American Identity and Politics (1980s–Present)6 • Martyr in the Motor City7 • White Grievance and the Rise of the Counterrevolution8 • Naming and Confronting Hate Crimes9 • When the Police Cause More Harm10 • Building Community in the Face of ViolenceEpilogue  AcknowledgmentsNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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