Son Le ● Racism Toward Asian Americans in the US

 Click on the hyperlinks to direct to the respective blog posts.  "Asian Americans face rise in racist incidents" ● CBS News Report UN Normalize Racism Towards Asian Americans ● TED Talk LINE OF REASONING:  How Chinese Immigrants Helped Build the Transcontinental Railroad: ● HISTORY Article 'Today, I Am A Witness To Change': A Crowdsourced Poem Against Anti-Asian Hate : ● NPR OPTIC:  "Wings II" ● Painting Link to Lens Map Why did I pick this crisis?  As an Asian American, it is important that I seek knowledge about the ongoing concerns and issues within the United States. Specifically, Asian violence and hate continue propagate, especially within society and the established systems that promote discrimination. I picked the Asian American hate crisis to be more informed about the proposed actions to remedy the issues as well as to expose myself to the atrocities that are personal to my ethnicity and racial group. In addition, firsthand experiences with racism...

 Wings II ● Painting     O:  Wings II highlights a chaotic and blissful scene of a girl ascending in the form of a dove in a sea of redness and turbulence.      P:  Large circles dot throughout the piece with bleeding elements. The dove in the middle also has bleeding wings as it takes flight. Primarily warm and darker colors flood the painting with a few yellows and oranges to accent. Within the background, scratched marks create an ocean-like appearance that sits on top of a deep red color. On the side panels, porcelain vases, typically depicted in traditional Asian paintings, hold plants, with the left one drooping and holding less leaves than the right.     T:  Hung Liu, a Chinese American artist painted Wings II during a time of violence toward Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders in 2011. Being an immigrant herself, Hung Liu empathized with those struggling with their foreign identity in a Western world. As the Chinese...