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The Anti-Asian Panic and the Pandemic: A Virtual Teach-In Collection was transferred to Special Collections and University Archives in 2020.
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The processing, arrangement, and description of the Anti-Asian Panic and the Pandemic: A Virtual Teach-In Collection was completed in April 2020.
Allan E. S. Lumba was an assistant professor in the Department of History at Virginia Tech beginning in the 2019-2020 academic year. He received a B.S. in history from Oregon State University, a M.A. in history from San Francisco State University, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington. His principle areas of research centered on Southeast Asia, colonialism and imperialism, race and capitalism, Asian and Pacific Islander American history, and global history.
Nina Ha was the director of the Asian Cultural Engagement Center at Virginia Tech beginning in the 2019-2020 academic year. She receieved a B.A. in English and government from Smith College in 1994, a M.A. in Asian American studies from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1999, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2003.
The Anti-Asian Panic and the Pandemic: A Virtual Teach-In Collection includes video, audio, and text files recorded by Zoom for the teach-in event. It also includes the event flyer, notes on Coronavirus discrimination in the news, and a follow-up reading list.
The Zoom recording files include two MP4 video files, a M4A audio file, and a TXT text file. One video file is the main focus view featuring the video streams from the primary presenters, including screensharing. The second video file is the "gallery" view including the headshots and video feeds for all attendees. The audio file is the audio from the event. The text file is the record of the event chat.
The collection also includes a JPG image file of the event flyer, a DOCX file containing a report from San Francisco State University Asian American Studies detailing news accounts of COVID-19 discrimination in February and March of 2020, A follow-up reading list for the teach-in prepared by the presenters, and a copy of a press release from The United States Department of Justice website titled The Department of Justice Creates Section Dedicated to Denaturalization Cases.
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The collection is available online.