Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:
Paper Instructions:

VIEW segments of VINCENT WHO? Preceded by A 3-minute piece, “Who Is Vincent Chin?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWVvInj88Jo 

VINCENT WHO?

Chapter 3 “A Milestone”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWZhxya3RlY {4.30 min.}

Chapter 4 “Asian American”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcjoZmSoSsA  {5 min.}

Chapter 6 “A Threat To Justice”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D7t2XGdBlQ  {5 min.}

READ the article, “Teaching Who Killed Vincent Chin?” which features 6 student responses to the film.

ANSWER:

Who is Vincent Chin?
Why is this case significant ~ still, 35 years later?

NOTE the following points about the model minority from our upcoming readings and how they relate to both WHO KILLED VINCENT CHIN? as well as BETTER LUCK TOMORROW:

The notion of model minority emerged in the 1960s, during the rise of the Civil Rights Movement which was led by African American citizens.
This construction of the model minority was based on the political silence of Asian America, and “had less to do with the actual success of Asian Americans than to the perceived failure of African Americans to assimilate.”
In other words, the ideological function of the model minority myth is to “compliment” Asian Americans at the expense of Black Americans, to encourage their political silence as “model” rather than resisting discrimination or fighting for civil rights or defying one’s expected position in the social-racial hierarchy.
WATCH Evan Leong’s BLT GENESIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT2LsWsw0bU

Starting at 13.00 (you are welcome to watch the whole short film) – about 20 minutes, plus the trailer for BETTER LUCK TOMORROW with the tagline: “Never Underestimate an Overachiever”

ANSWER:

Why is the film, BETTER LUCK TOMORROW, considered controversial?
What is one thing you learned about the Sundance Film Festival in BLT GENESIS, which follows the indie film on its road to Park City?