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Here. Again. Anti-Asian Violence in the City
Topics: Cultural Geography
, Ethnicity and Race
, Urban Geography
Keywords: Anti-Asian violence, spatiality, Allan Pred, situated ignorances, urban Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract Day: Saturday Session Start / End Time: 2/26/2022 11:20 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/26/2022 12:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) Room: Virtual 56
Authors:
Lisa M Hoffman, University of Washington Tacoma
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Abstract
In August 2021, two Asian restaurants were vandalized in Tacoma, Washington, a part of the alarming increase in anti-Asian violence in the past several years. Located in one of the oldest sections of the city, which sits on the ancestral territory of the Puyallup nation, the spaces have histories of privilege, dispossession, and anti-Asian violence embedded in them. These very streets were locations where Japanese immigrants had businesses and homes prior to incarceration during WWII. The restaurants are also blocks away from where riotous White mobs with torches drove away Chinese residents in 1885, what is infamously known as the “Tacoma Method.” This paper excavates these spatial acts of violence through the work of Allan Pred, disaggregating the collective amnesia that perpetuates the status quo and racial violence. This excavation aims to make visible that which is taken-for-granted, to understand contemporary landscapes of fear, and to make explicit our situated ignorances.