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From co-founding the Asian American Writers’ Workshop to producing documentaries like “Vincent Who?” about the 1982 killing of Vincent Chin, Curtis Chin has been championing other Asian ...
Vincent Who? is a documentary film that was released in 2009. It details the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin that occurred in Detroit, Michigan.. Chin was a 27-year-old Chinese-American who was beaten to death with a baseball bat by two Detroit autoworkers, who had mistakenly thought that he was Japanese and, in their minds, was responsible for the loss of jobs in the U.S. auto industry.
Instead of taking over his family’s Chinese restaurant, Curtis Chin — who is not related to the man killed on June 23, 1982 — spent the next 30 years elevating Asian American voices, and recounting Vincent Chin’s story and the racism of 1980s Detroit.
The film tracks the incident from the initial eye-witness accounts through the trial and its repercussions for the families involved, and the American justice system at large. [7] After an outcry from the Asian American community, led by Vincent's mother Lily Chin, the case becomes a civil rights Supreme Court case.
Two white autoworkers bludgeoned 27-year-old Chinese American Vincent Chin to death with a baseball bat during his bachelor party in Detroit in 1982, but his loved ones' cries for justice fell on ...
Lily Chin (Chinese: 陈余琼芳; 1920–2002) [1] [3] was a Chinese-American activist known for her attempts to seek legal proceedings for the death of her adopted son, Vincent Chin. [ 4 ] Early life
The landmark documentary explores the fight for justice for Vincent Chin, who went into a coma and died in 1982 after being beaten by two white autoworkers.
Christine Choy (born 1952) is a Chinese-American filmmaker. [2] She is known for co-directing Who Killed Vincent Chin?, a 1988 documentary film based on the murder of Vincent Jen Chin, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award.