September 11th put many South Asians under a spotlight colored by race and sometimes religion. This isn’t the first time Asian Americans were targets. The Japanese internment or incarceration camps during WWII rarely surface as racism in the USA. How many know who Vincent Chin was, and how the hate violence against him inspired a whole generation of Asian American activists? The presence of Asian Americans in Civil Rights movements has long been here, however, the expansion of a larger community voice is emerging across many of the ethnic Asian American groups. South Asians from Bangladesh, I
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