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On the one-year anniversary of the Atlantic-area mass shooting that left six Asian women dead, Iyko Day, associate professor of English and critical social thought at ����ɬ, spoke in a  about the crucial role that Chinese immigrants played in building the country.

The piece offers an in-depth look at the lives of those affected by the shooting and how the cultural marginalization of Asian immigrants in the United States is a foundational part of understanding the violence directed against them. 

While Georgia’s infrastructure was largely built by Chinese laborers, their contributions go unseen. Day used the slur “coolies,” a reference to wage workers, to describe their historical dehumanization.

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