Teach-in Materials
Racism doesn’t have boundaries.
Neither do people of different colors.
This section offers materials for teaching the intersection between anti-Black and anti-Asian racism.
Readings:
Kurashige, S. (2010). The shifting grounds of race: Black and Japanese Americans in the making of multiethnic Los Angeles (Vol. 67). Princeton University Press.
The history of tensions — and solidarity — between Black and Asian American communities, explained (Mar 16, 2021). https://www.vox.com/22321234/black-asian-american-tensions-solidarity-history.
Quote 1: “If you take a holistic look at our history, I truly believe that Asian Americans have more in common with the African American community than with the white community in America,” Pastor Chang said. “The fact that many people don’t know that shows how historically malnourished we are and how fragmented our understanding of history is.”
Quote 2: “We need to make sure that we’re not falling into the wedges and the traps that get set for us,” Garza said. “There is a long history of solidarity in Black communities and Asian communities — and those relationships are needed more than ever.”
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What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time
Isolation measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 means that social researchers who have for doing fieldwork in a pandemic - specifically, ideas for avoiding in-person interactions by using mediated forms that will achieve similar ends.
a crowdsourced cross-disciplinary resource since 12 March 2020 *open access
This position paper argues that Covid-19 related anti-Asian racial violence highlights how contemporary problems facing Chinese communities worldwide – and responses to them – cannot be contained within the borders of Chineseness.
In Mexico, links have been made between the COVID‐19 pandemic and China that point to the continuing deprecation of the Chinese and the perpetuation of anti‐Chinese logics reflecting the legacies of ‘race’ science. This short article argues that these dynamics reflect a systemic and collective anti‐Chinese sentiment that stems from Mexican eugenics and the modern conceptions of mestizaje. The purpose of this piece is to observe how discourses of ‘race’ link with the COVID‐19 pandemic in order to explore how these ostensibly natural occurrences exacerbate pre‐existing social inequalities.
In Mexico, links have been made between the COVID‐19 pandemic and China that point to the continuing deprecation of the Chinese and the perpetuation of anti‐Chinese logics reflecting the legacies of ‘race’ science. This short article argues that these dynamics reflect a systemic and collective anti‐Chinese sentiment that stems from Mexican eugenics and the modern conceptions of mestizaje...
Many Americans of Chinese descent have been subject to racism related to COVID‐19 (Fig. 1). Researchers used phone calls and flyers distributed by e‐mail, Facebook and WeChat to recruit 425 mothers who were identified as ethnically Chinese residing in the USA with at least one child aged 4–18 years.1 From this convenience sample, 230 children aged 10–18 years completed their own surveys, resulting in a sub‐sample of 230 parent–child dyads...
In these essays, scholars examine how East Asian countries responded to the Covid-19 crisis, analyzing the pandemic’s impact from international relationships to domestic affairs.
#AntiAsianViolence is on the rise. According to the STOP AAPI HATE reporting center, there have been over 1,100 reports of coronavirus discrimination from Asian Americans in the United States. The report emphasizes that AAPI women, Asian women in particular, are harassed at twice the rate of men.
Recent violent attacks against elderly Asian Americans have gone viral, once again raising concerns of anti-Asian racism amid the COVID pandemic. One such case was that of 84-year-old Vicha Ratanapakdee, a Thai grandfather who was violently shoved to the ground while walking in San Francisco. He later died from his injuries and video of the incident was widely shared, prompting the hashtags #JusticeForVicha and #AsiansAreHuman.
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On March 17th and 30th, 2021, PCDC conducted a bilingual (English, Mandarin, and/or Cantonese) anti-Asian racism incident survey with 315 individuals during our vaccination events at Crane Community Center where eligible members of Philadelphia’s Chinese and Asian immigrant community received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccination.
