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The purpose of this article is to encourage more critical thinking around the social media use of crime statistics, and to address issues at their root cause. This is specific to the 2018 and 2019 Bureau of Justice Statistics’ violent crime statistics and how they have been taken out of context to push anti-Black rhetoric that is harmful for both the Black and Asian communities.
To understand trends in coronavirus-related, anti-Asian racism, the Virulent Hate Project at the University of Michigan reviewed 4,337 news articles published between January 1 and December 31, 2020. We identified 1,023 incidents of anti-Asian racism, which included 679 incidents of anti-Asian harassment and vandalism and 344 incidents of stigmatizing and discriminatory statements, images, policies, and proposals. Asian and Asian American people of all ages, ethnicities, and genders experienced racist harassment, but women and people of Chinese descent experienced most of the attacks.
Opinion piece commenting on the 2021 mass shooting in Atlanta Georgia (2021 Atlanta Spa Shooting) weaving together historical concepts of oppression in the U.S. of Afro-Asian communities. Briefly touches on and links to themes of colonialism, xenophobia/treatment of immigrants in the US, fetishization of Asian women, systemic brutalization of Black women, slavery in the U.S, and the model minority myth.
Op-ed by Ethnic Studies professor and daughter of a Chinese refugee father and Jamaican immigrant mother. She speaks to what it means to be an Asian Woman in America in response to the 2021 Atlanta Spa shootings.