In a time of racial tensions and division, filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña says Asian-Americans' experience can provide lessons for how to move forward together. (WBEZ)
It's not about how AsiansAmerican, but how Asians have helped shape America. I think that people just don't realize that, you know, not only that we've been here but that we've been part of moving forward.
Because of 1965 immigration reforms, and also because of people leaving as refugees and immigrants after the Vietnam War, you just had this huge influx of immigrants in the '70s, '80s and '90s. So the Asian American population just really blossomed, not only in terms of numbers, but it just became so much more diverse.
Many are comparing the scapegoating of Asian Americans for the coronavirus pandemic to the racism towards Asian Americans during the time of Vincent Chin's murder. How do you view the series' release in today's context?[the unarmed African American man in Georgia who was fatally shot by armed white residents while jogging] are happening constantly in the African American community and in the Latinx community.
We're in such deep sh*t right now in not only public health, but the economy and the hate and the polarization. History helps us understand it so we don't make the same mistakes over and over again. The Japanese American experience in World War II is something that is so present today because of the family detention and family separations along the border.
A lot of Japanese Americans moved to Chicago because they didn't feel welcome on the West Coast. Different pockets of my family on both sides had resettled [from the camps] to Chicago already, so my parents moved to Clark and Roscoe, just right around the corner from Wrigley Field. The Cubs were really kind of a center of life for the family. In the seventh inning, they used to let kids in for free, so my siblings would always go to the Cubs games.
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