One Year Later: Understanding Anti-Asian Violence
One Year Later: Understanding Anti-Asian Violence
One Year Later:
March 16, 2022 - AAPI Data: A Year After Atlanta: As we honor the victims, we ask: how much has anti-Asian hate changed?
On the one-year anniversary of the massacre in Atlanta, we ask how much has changed over the course of a year? Based on the 2022 American Experiences with Discrimination Survey–an on-line survey conducted by Momentive between March 2 and March 9, 2022–we find an increase in that anti-Asian hate crimes and hate incidents in 2021 from 2020 that have not abated in the first three months of 2022.
@AAPIWomenLead: It is the one-year anniversary of the Atlanta-area shooting.
@stopaapihate: One year after the Atlanta shootings, AAPI women continue to encounter hate and harassment at an alarming rate.
In photos: Victims of Atlanta Spa Shootings Remembered One Year Later
"How many more of us have to be sliced by a boxcutter, bashed on the head with a rock or more recently, punched over 125 times before it gets labeled a hate crime?" educator Esther Lee said in New York City. "I am not overreacting."
"It should not take a tragedy such as this one for us to wake up," Georgia Rep. Bee Nguyen (D) said at the Atlanta rally. "This has been ongoing in the history of our country."
Carrying signs that read “Break the Silence” and “Stop Asian Hate,” several dozen people marched into the Georgia Freight Depot downtown on Wednesday. One year after a shooting spree that killed eight people, including six Asian women, victims’ families and supporters united behind one message: Ending violence against Asians.
Indianapolis
(RECOMMENDED) April 17, 2021: Sikhs in America: A Religious Community Long Misunderstood is Mourning Deaths in Indianapolis Mass Shooting.
"The racist attacks spiked again after 9/11, particularly because Americans did not know about the Sikh religion and conflated the unique Sikh appearance with popular stereotypes of what terrorists look like. The rates of violence against Sikhs surged after the election of President Donald Trump. The Sikh Coalition estimated in 2018 that Americans Sikhs were being targeted in hate crimes about once a week."
Atlanta
(RECOMMENDED) Racism, sexism must be considered in Atlanta case involving killing of six Asian women, experts say - Featuring Catherine Choy, Professor of Asian American Studies, UC Berkeley.
Asian Americans see shooting as a culmination of a year of racism
We now know the names of all 8 people killed in the Atlanta area spa shootings. Here's who they are.
Indianapolis
(RECOMMENDED) May 1, 2021: Solidarity Vigil (Video: 7:20 minutes) - More than 10,000 people gathered for a multiracial interfaith vigil to grieve and stand in solidarity with the Sikh community one week after the mass shooting in Indianapolis. The massacre touches the open wound of decades-long racial trauma. We were joined by faith leaders, artists, activists, and Sikh community members. It was a tapestry of testimony, witness, music, poetry, prayer, and song in the Sikh spirit of Chardi Kala. In the wake of so much racial trauma, we are modeling what America could be — a multiracial, multifaith beloved community.
Atlanta
(RECOMMENDED) Hypersexualization of Asian Women Rooted in U.S. History (Video: 3:46 minutes) - Link to Maxwell Leung Instagram account. Interviews with Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor of Asian American Studies, UC Berkeley, and Rosalind Chou, Associate Professor of Sociology, Georgia State University.
(RECOMMENDED) "Were My Grandparents Safe?" (Video: 4 minutes) - Link to Amanda Gorman Instagram account.
Stop Asian Hate: Connie Wun on Atlanta Spa Killings, Gender Violence & Spike in Anti-Asian Attacks (Video: 30 minutes) - Featuring Connie Wun, Founder and Director of AAPI Women Lead.