Fighting Anti-Asian Violence: Anh Mai’s Legacy Walking Tour

This walking tour is intended for Boston Public Schools ethnic studies teachers using the Fighting Anti-Asian Violence case study. This case enables students to recognize, analyze, and respond to causes and effects of anti-Asian violence by connecting recent pandemic-associated social dynamics of anti-Asian hate and critical community resistance during the 2020s with specific examples and primary sources from a previous historical period during the 1980s, particularly in Boston. In addition, this 1980s-based case study also intentionally centers the early community history of Vietnamese in Boston who currently represent the second largest Asian ethnic group in the city and one of the five largest home language groups among BPS families, but who have never before received explicit attention in BPS middle/high school curriculum design.