'Am I Asian Enough?' Adoptees Struggle To Make Sense Of Spike In Anti-Asian Violence
Many Asian adoptees say they feel left out of the national conversation about anti-Asian racism because they don't feel like they belong in either the Asian American community or white America.
by Ashley Westerman
Mar 27, 2021
4 minutes
Bethany Long Newman says she saw herself in the victims of last week's shooting outside of Atlanta, when a gunman rampaged through three spas and killed eight people. Of the eight victims, six were women of Asian descent.
"When I first heard about it, I was immediately scared," says Newman, 32, of Chicago. "You kind of put yourself in their shoes a bit and think: This would happen to me — or my daughter."
Newman was born in South Korea, then adopted as an infant and raised by a white family in a small, predominantly white rural community in eastern
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