Vincent Who?
Poster for Vincent Who?
Release date
2009

Vincent Who? is a documentary film that was released in 2009. It details the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin that occurred in Detroit, Michigan.

Chin was a 27-year-old Chinese-American who was beaten to death with a baseball bat by two Detroit autoworkers, who had mistakenly thought that he was Japanese and, in their minds, was responsible for the loss of jobs in the U.S. auto industry.[1]

As part of making the film, producer Curtis Chin (who is not related to Vincent Chin[2]) asked approximately 80 young Asian Americans if they had ever heard of Vincent Chin — they hadn't.[1]

The film begins[2] by explaining that Chin's killers, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, were originally charged with second-degree murder but were allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter. Judge Charles Kaufman, who sentenced them to three years' probation and a $3,000 fine, explained his leniency by saying, "These weren't the kind of men you send to jail."[1]

The National Association for Multicultural Education gave Vincent Who? its 2009 Multicultural Media Award.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jeff Gammage, The murder that galvanized Asian American activism, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 5, 2010.
  2. 1 2 David Moore, "Vincent Who?" Documentary Tour Comes to GVSU, WGVU, February 22, 2010. Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ The Multicultural Media Award Archived 2013-12-19 at the Wayback Machine, National Association for Multicultural Education.


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