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Critical Race Theory, Post-Structuralism, And Narrative Space Analysis

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The fears that anti-Asians have toward Asian Americans increased because real Americans were afraid that Asian Americans are taking away their jobs, and their “American dream” lifestyle. In Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-Structuralism, and Narrative Space, written by Robert S. Chang, he presented that the “Order of Caucasians,” the white supremacists, were putting blames toward Chinese Americans for the country's economic woes suffered by all the unemployment union workers. Which leaded to the Chinese Massacre of 1885 because of economic crisis at the time of event. Chang also present the unfair treatment that Asian Americans get from the grand jury. In his essay, Chang presented that the jury had failed to indict every single person for the crimes that they did. Chang also presented the idea formation around “Japanese are taking over” conceptual (Chang, 1993). This ideology were very …show more content…

Chang also stated the climate of the anti-Asian propaganda still hurt Asian American, as the death of Vincent Chin had demonstrated that Asian Americans were still considered as foreigner. And that the sense of foreignness for American society where the particle type of racism that aimed to Asian American. Chang also see that the model minority myth is a way to oppressed Asian American. Chang stated that the myth is a way of denial of present-day discrimination toward Asian Americans and the “legitimizing the oppression of other racial minorities and poor whites” (Chang, 1993). This argument is a repetitive to Racial Violence essay and Kim view on model minority myth. To them, the myth are hurting not just Asian Americans who are not successful, but other minorities groups and the poor white Americans in the

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