Vincent Chin Case Study

Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, was brutally beaten by two white men with baseball bats in Detroit during the summer of 1982. They had just lost their jobs in the auto-industry because Japanese cars were gaining popularity in America, and they had assumed Chin was Japanese. Chin died a few days later in the hospital due to injuries sustained during the attack. When the case was brought to court, the courts ruled that the two white men has simply been attempting to teach Chin a lesson, and the two men got off with a fine of a few thousand dollars and a couple years ' probation. This ruling was what sparked the modern Asian American civil rights movement in the United States. The information presented here is what I already know from multiple workshops I 've attended and led on Vincent Chin and his story. What I want to know is how much of this information should Wayne State’s faculty and students know? Telling and hearing this story multiple times, I personally feel that residents of Detroit should know about the spark of a revolution in their hometown, but should they really? My personal attachments the Vincent Chin story have led to pursue the attempt of answering this question. My first source came from the ProQuest Research Library, because we’re required to have

The title “Embracing Mistaken Identity: How the Vincent Chin Case Unified Asian Americans” by Frank H. Wu sounded particularly fitting, because it implies that the text will speak on the importance of the Vincent Chin case to past and current Asian American issues. Wu’s credibility was noted in a separate article, “Why Vincent Chin Matters”, found by searching “Vincent Chin” into Google. Wu grew up near Detroit, has written a book on Asian race relations, is the Chancellor and Dean of the Hastings College of the Law at the University of California, and is currently writing a book on Vincent Chin’s