Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1988): Ethnicity and a Babble of Discourses

Authors

  • Leslie Fishbein The State University of New Jersey.

Abstract

This Academy Award-nominated : film related the brutal murder of 27- year-old Vincent Chin in a Detroit bar [sic]. Outraged at the suspended sentence that was given Ron Ebens, who bludgeoned Chin to death, the Asian-American community organized an unprecedented civil rights protest to successfully bring Ebens up for retrial.

Author Biography

Leslie Fishbein, The State University of New Jersey.

LESUE FISHBEIN is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Rutgers/The State University of New Jersey. Her book Rebels in Bohemia: The Radicals of The Masses, 1911-1917 (University of North Carolina Press, 1982) won the New York State Historical Association Manuscript Award. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Film & History, and her film scholarship has appeared in such journals as American Quarterly, The International Journal of Women's Studies, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, Labor History, Women's Studies, and New York History.

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Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2-3 (1995)

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Essays

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