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Title:
Who killed Vincent Chin? [videorecording] / a film by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Filmmakers Library,
Copyright Date:
1990?, c1988
Description:
1 videocassette (82 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Subject:
Chin, Vincent.
Ebens, Ronald.
Chinese Americans--Detroit.--Detroit.
Racism--Detroit.--Detroit.
Violent crimes--Detroit.--Detroit.
Civil rights--United States.
Chinese Americans--Civil rights.
United States--Race relations--20th century.
Other Authors:
Tajima, Renee.
Choy, Christine.
WTVS-TV (Television station : Detroit, Mich.)
Film News Now Foundation.
Notes:
Documentary. "A Production of Film News Now Foundation and WTV8/Detroit"--Credits.
Summary:
Circumstances and aftermath of the baseball bat murder of 27-year-old Vincent Chin outside a Detroit bar in 1983. Outraged at the suspended sentence that was given Ron Ebens, who bludgeoned Chin to death, the Asian-American community organized an unprecedented civil rights protest to successfully bring Ebens up for retrial. Explores issues of racism and loss of blue-collar jobs.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)63547509
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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