Vang focuses on race, politics, and community in the global pandemic. The year 2020 opens up an examination of the unforgiving simultaneity of not only the biopolitics of disease but also reinvigorated settler state violence, the murder of Black Americans, the sharpening of political divisions, and how Asian Americans are situated in all of this. The pandemic has solidified for many of us the violence of the U.S. settler state government and its relational value of life that institutes death for BIPOC communities. The disproportionately high death rates among Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities, according to the APM Research Lab, are triple those of white Americans.
Race, Politics, and Community in the Global Pandemic