From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement

by Paula Yoo

Book Overview

America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiment simmers, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving a Chinese American man, Vincent Chin, beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz.

Paula Yoo has crafted a searing examination of the killing and the trial and verdicts that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324002875
• ISBN13: 9781324002871
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Norton Young Readers
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12