What does it mean for Asian Americans to engage in racial politics in the United States from the vantage point of being a non-Black racial minority? Using the contemporary movement against anti-Asian violence as a starting point, this research examines what political claims Asian Americans are making and how Asian Americans are positioning themselves in the American racial order. It explores the contested ways through which Asian Americans construct the political meaning of violence and (dis)engage with state institutions meant to address violence. The project uses mixed-methods, including discourse and content analysis, interviews and grounded theory analysis, and survey data. Bridging disparate literatures on race and ethnic politics, political behavior, social movements and organizations, the carceral state, and political thought, this work illuminates the dynamics of what it means for a group that is neither white nor Black to make claims about race, injury, and justice in the United States.