When Anti-Miscegenation Laws Reflected the Worst Kind of Bigotry
My grandparents’ marriage became a national ‘scandal’ because of anti-Asian hate
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6 min readMay 15, 2021
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“Los Angeles Heiress Elopes With a Chink”
That headline still shocks me. It shouldn’t. Epithets like “chink”and “Chinaman” may have fallen from favor, but as we’ve seen throughout the past year…