Co-edited by Susan Thomas, Associate Professor in the School of Education, and Antonio T. Tiongson Jr., Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, both of Syracuse University, Intimacies of Anti-Asian Violence (Fordham, 2026) brings together a diverse cohort of contributors working to trace the genealogies, geographies, and the entanglements of anti-Asian violence.
Representing a range of critical perspectives, these essays open up lines of inquiry that unsettle the taken-for-granted framings of anti-Asian violence as simply a matter of “hate”.
Intimacies of Anti-Asian Violence makes crucial connections enabled by transnational, intersectional, comparative, and critical lenses, collectively interrogating the complex linkages between imperialist and settler colonial histories, modalities of violence, and the geopolitical formation of Asia and Asianness.
Working through and between a range of critical frameworks, including but not limited to the Black radical tradition, feminist and queer critiques, Indigenous and decolonial perspectives, critical pedagogies, and the anti-caste movement, this volume provides an original and layered intervention that strives to complicate the discourse of anti-Asian violence and attends to the multiple and different ways Asia and its diasporas can be located in relation to varied permutations of violence.
Importantly and powerfully, the insights offered in Intimacies of Anti-Asian Violence point toward the possibilities for solidarities and movement-building across racial, ethnic, class, and gendered lines in the contemporary moment.
Chapters
GENEALOGIES
The Counterinsurgency of Stop Asian Hate
Dylan Rodríguez
Welcome to the Terrordome: History and Politics of Muslim Protest
Soham Patel
Transnational Itineraries of Global “Hinduphobia”
Mona Bhan, Deepti Misri, and Nishant Upadhyay
SETTLER-COLONIAL VIOLENCE
Combating the Virus: Anti-Asian Violence as a Function of Settler Sovereignty
Shebati Sengupta
The Sensorium of Anti-Asian Violence: Agent Orange, Silvex, and the Toxic Trio of Settler Imperialism
Quynh Nhu Le
“Civilization’s Really a Guy Thing”: Japanese Settler Colonialism, TikTok’s Roman Empire Trend, and Intersectional Analysis
Danika Medak-Saltzman
RACIAL CAPITAL AND ABOLITION
Interrogating the Global Filipino Condition amid Anti-Asian Violence: Centering Risk and Contagion through Racial Capitalism
Edward Nadurata
Schools as Racialized Geographies: A Curricular Intervention
Anita P. Chikkatur and Brian D. Lozenski
On the Abolition Movement and Transnational Organizing in the Philippines: An Interview with ABOLISYON!
Susan Thomas and Antonio T. Tiongson
GENDERED AND SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE
Violent Intimacies: Queer Kinships in the Wake of the Korean War
Sue-jin Green
Body Work, Migrant Labor Organizing, and Gendered Violence: An Interview with Red Canary Song
Sex Is/Not Work
Juliana Hu Pegues
SEEKING JUSTICE / FINDING FUTURES
Seeking Justice in Modern India: A Case Study of the Rohith Vemula Movement
Munna Sannaki
Asian American Art and Abolition: A Dialogue between Jess X. Snow and James McMaster
Afterword: Laundering Asian/American Grief in the Time of Genocide
Iyko Day