35 years later.
The man, the case, and the continuing relevance for racial profiling, hate crimes, bullying, media, civil rights and multi-racial solidarity.
Please join us on Tonight, 6:30pm, WVC Ballrooms for a screening of “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” followed by a discussion with award-winning author and activist Helen Zia and director Renee Tajima-Peña.
Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy-award nominated filmmaker whose work focuses on immigrant communities, race, gender and social justice. She has become a chronicler of the American scene with her documentary films “Who Killed Vincent Chin?,” the acclaimed investigation into the beating death of a Chinese American in Detroit and “My America…or Honk if You Love Buddha,” a feature-length road documentary in search of Asian America where she encounters rappers, debutantes, laborers and freedom fighters.
She is currently a professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA, where she is director of the Center for EthnoCommunications and Endowed Chair in Japanese American Studies. She was formerly a cultural commentator on NPR and a film critic for The Village Voice.
Helen Zia is an award-winning author, journalist, Fulbright Scholar, and former Executive Editor of Ms. Magazine. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she has been outspoken on issues ranging from civil rights and peace to women’s rights and countering hate violence and homophobia. Helen’s leadership on the Asian American landmark civil rights case of anti-Asian hate violence is documented in the Oscar-nominated film, “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” In 1997, she coauthored a complaint to the Commission on Civil Rights against Congress and the news media for discrimination against Asian Americans; in 2010 she testified as a witness in the marriage equality case decided by the US Supreme Court.
This program is co-sponsored by the Center for Student Diversity and the Electronic Media and Film Department. For questions, email diversityworks@towson.edu.
