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Topic: Anti-Asian Hate

The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Grove Press)

Colonial fetishizing in "The Committed"

April Yee
Activists participate in a vigil in response to the Atlanta spa shootings March 17, 2021 in the Chinatown area of Washington, DC. A gunman opened fire in three spas in the Atlanta, Georgia area, the day before killing eight people, including six women of Asian descent. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Are the Atlanta shootings a hate crime?

Jon Skolnik