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...Killed Vincent Chin?," a film based on the true story of a Chinese-American killed by two Detroit auto workers, will be shown December 3. Renee Tajima '80 produced the 1989 Academy Award nominee...
...Chin Indian reservation south of Phoenix, Arizona, self- government and self-sufficiency are taken for granted. The Ak-Chin broke away from the paternalistic U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, the federal agency that still controls much of Indian life from cradle to grave, in 1961 when the tribe insisted on farming its own lands rather than leasing them out to non- Indians for negligible revenues. Today the 600-member tribe takes in profits of more than $1 million a year by growing crops on 16,500 acres. About 175 Ak-Chins work on the land or in community government...
According to a theory developed by Chinese-American authors Frank Chin and Jeffrey Paul Chan in a 1972 essay entitled "Racist Love," Asian-Americans have accepted a position as "honorary whites" in this country, as a privileged minority whose members are viewed more favorably than Blacks or Hispanics because they are the objects of white racist love, while Blacks and Hispanics are the objects of white racist hate. To serve as an object of white racist love is to act as a foil to troublesome minorities, particularly Blacks, in order to diminish the validity of calls for greater social equality...
Four more people who were taken to the Cambridge Hospital emergency room were treated and released the same night, said Linda Chin, associate administrator at the hospital...
...least he doesn't take it on the chin the way Duncan does. In the film's world, the British are all arrogant dunderheads, bumbling through the woods in immaculate red coats. So the man who was a romantic lead in the novel is here a pudgy cartoon, barking orders and pressing unwanted affections on Cora. He gets crucified over a fire by the Hurons, and nobody minds...