“NOT ANOTHER RACIST KILLING”: Protest Photographs from the CAAAV Digital Archive

Since 1986, the members of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities have been dedicated to the ongoing fight for racial and economic justice, specifically within poor and working-class Asian immigrant and refugee communities in New York City. Hundreds of protests have taken place since the organization’s birth, and an exponential number of protest signs have been made by CAAAV members and allies. These protest signs embody the wide range of organizing efforts that CAAAV has engaged in for the last four decades. Given the ephemeral and highly personal quality of protest signs, many such items are lost to time. But photographs of these protests, preserved in CAAAV’s digital archive, offer a way to preserve and remember these objects in the digital sphere.