Understanding and Dealing with Violence: A Multicultural Approach situates violence within a social, cultural, and historical context. Edited by distinguished scholars Barbara C. Wallace and Robert T. Carter, this unique volume explores historical factors, socialization influences, and the historical and contemporary dynamics between the oppressed and the oppressor. State-of-the-art research guides a diverse group of psychologists, educators, policy-makers, religious leaders, community members, victims, and perpetrators in finding viable solutions to violence.

Perceived Racism, Racial Environments, and Hate Violence against Asian Americans: Research, Clinical Issues, and Prevention

Perceived Racism, Racial Environments, and Hate Violence against Asian Americans: Research, Clinical Issues, and Prevention

Perceived racism, racial environments, and hate violence against Asian Americans: Research, clinical issues, and prevention
Eric L.KohatsuToshiSasao

In a San Francisco housing project, a Vietnamese American male has racial epithets hurled at him and is struck on the head with a rock. The victim's father claims that family members have been harassed for the past six years because of their ethnicity.

—National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC, 1993, Appendix 2)

Three White tenants struck a middle-aged Chinese woman repeatedly while saying, “Bitch, f—k you, chink, I want to kill you. F—k you chink, go back to your country.” Massachusetts.

—NAPALC (1995, p. 30)

A Chinese American male was brutally beaten on a public street ...

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