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Amplify! : my fight for Asian America / Dion Lim ; foreword by Olivia Munn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lim, Dion, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women television journalists--United States--Biography.
- Women television journalists.
- Asian American women--Biography.
- Asian American women.
- Television broadcasting of news--United States--Biography.
- Television broadcasting of news.
- Asian Americans--Race identity.
- Asian Americans.
- Lim, Dion.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 220 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- My fight for Asian America
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Third State Books, 2026.
- Summary:
- "February 24, 2020, started out like any other day for journalist and television anchor Dion Lim of San Francisco's ABC News. Planning her pitches for the morning's editorial meeting, she checked her Instagram account and saw a message from someone she didn't recognize. Attached was a horrifying video in which men were beating and yelling racist slurs at an elderly Asian man who had been collecting cans in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. Lim felt compelled to investigate the story, help the man who "looked freakishly like my dad," and bring the perpetrators to justice. Thus began Lim's four-years-and-counting quest to bring attention to the appalling rise of anti-Asian hate and violence in America. Amplify! My Fight for Asian America brings readers on an eye-opening journey alongside Lim, who has unwittingly become a national hero for her relentless fight for Asian American visibility. Through deeply personal anecdotes about her own life as a Chinese American, exclusive interviews with survivors, activists, and historians, and incisive historical context, she provides the very first book to tackle one of the biggest political and social controversies of this century from the perspective of the AAPI community."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Olivia Munn
- Introduction: In the eye of the storm
- Coronavirus
- Atlanta
- Activation
- Turning the tide
- Activism and action
- Mental health
- Fatigue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890130006
- OCLC:
- 1419439587
- Publisher Number:
- 90104345970
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