Yellow Peril Awareness Day

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Did you know there were six Chinese survivors on the Titanic? Or that the first Japanese visitors to London came in the 1500s? That after 1945, the Home Office secretly and illegally deported thousands of Chinese seamen who had helped Britain during WW2? Their families, left in Liverpool, weren’t notified, and spent decades assuming their husbands and fathers had died or abandoned them, only finding out the truth decades later.

Yellow Peril - a term that depicts the peoples of East and Southeast Asia as an existential danger to the Western world - continues to rear its ugly head through history and in more recent years. To ensure the next generation of ESEA people don’t have to battle anti-ESEA scapegoating, we’re launching Yellow Peril Awareness Day, an annual deep-dive into chapters of interwoven British-ESEA history.

Kickstarting on the 6th May, we’ll annually commemorate the signing…