Curtis Chin grew up in 1980s Detroit around his family's Chinese restaurant, Chung's. In a new memoir, he explains how it taught him everything he knows.
It was the 1980s, and Detroit was grappling with civil unrest, the AIDs crisis, crack cocaine and sky-high racial tensions. Curtis Chin was only a child when a close family friend, Vincent Chin, was murdered by racist autoworkers. By the time Chin turned 18, the violence of his hometown had ended the lives of five people he knew.
Jeff Kim, Chin’s partner of more than three decades, has seen his husband constantly advocating for Asian American stories throughout his career. “He’s got this network of goodwill,” Kim said. It goes all the way back to Michigan State University, where Chin studied poetry before moving to New York City and co-founding the AAWW in 1991.
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