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Encouraging ‘multicultural representation and societal equity,’ nonprofit Gold House releases its latest book recommendation list amid anti-Asian violence in many parts of the world.
Entering Tiananmen Square in Beijing, December 2017. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Mostofa Siraj Mohiuddin
Authors on the List Include Vuong, Zauner, Bulosan
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Publishing Perspectives may remember our writeup in October of the inaugural Gold House Book Club program designed to “champion authentic Asian representation through media to reshape public opinion.”
Today (June 4), on the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, we have news of the second list of titles issued by the program.
The company behind the program, Gold House, is a nonprofit collective “dedicated to unifying the world’s largest populace, Asians and Pacific Islanders, to enable more authentic multicultural representation and societal equity.” It’s interesting that during a time of so
In response to thousands of reported bias incidents, the call and budding movement to #StopAsianHate has fostered an unprecedented wave of Asian American solidarity that has quickly spread nationwide following the Atlanta-area shootings. This has been heavily driven by a collective sense of fear and outrage that anyone in the community might be the next target. Videos of Asian elders being attacked and in extreme cases killed by much younger men have gone viral, but so has the video of American-born Koreans accosted by a middle-aged socialite and daughter of former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
This seemingly random quality of anti-Asian violence draws Asian Americans from diverse backgrounds together through a process that scholar Yen Le Espiritu has termed “reactive solidarity.”