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Anti-racism resources to support Asian Americans: Articles

The Atlanta shootings

"What to know about the Atlanta spa shootings"
New York Times, 3/21/21
"The Deep American Roots of the Atlanta Shootings"
New York Times, 3/19/21
"The Atlanta shooting and the dehumanizing of Asian women"
New Yorker, 3/19/21
‘It’s race, class and gender together’: Why the Atlanta murders aren’t just about one thing: In pushing a singular narrative in Atlanta killings, we deny Asian women their full personhood.
Washington Post, 3/18/21
Catholic leaders condemn Atlanta shooting and the rising violence against Asian-Americans
America: The Jesuit Review, 3/18/21

Discrimination and crime against Asian Americans

Racism is behind anti-Asian American violence, even when it’s not a hate crime"
The Conversaion, 3/19/21
"The history of anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S."
National Public Radio, 3/18/21
"The anxiety of being Asian-American: hate crimes and negative biases during the COVID-19 pandemic"
American Journal of Criminal Justice, 6/10/20
"Hate crimes against Asian Americans"
American Journal of Criminal Justice, 1/7/21
"Asians and Asian Americans’ experiences of racial discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on health outcomes and the buffering role of social support"
Stigma and Health, 2/21
"Are hate crime laws effective?"
Facts on File Issues and Controversies, 3/18/21
"Anti-Asian hate crimes surge 145%, while overall hate crime drops 6% in 2020"
FACT SHEET: Anti-Asian Prejudice March 2021; Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism (California State University); 3/21/21
‘Alarming surge’ in anti-Asian violence across US terrifies community members
Guardian, 2/20/2021
Attacks on Asian Americans during pandemic renew criticism that U.S. undercounts hate crimes
Washington Post, 2/22/2021

Stereotypes

"'You’re So Exotic Looking': An Intersectional Analysis of Asian American and Pacific Islander Stereotypes"
Affilia: Journal of Women & Social Work, 3/21 - authors present an intersectional understanding of the Asian American experience that counteracts stereotypes of Asians as the “model minority,” who do not experience racialized, sexualized, and gendered microaggressions
Racialized sexism/sexualized racism: A multimethod study of intersectional experiences of discrimination for Asian American women.
Asian American Journal of Psychology, 2018
The long history of US racism against Asian Americans, from ‘yellow peril’ to ‘model minority’ to the ‘Chinese virus’
The Conversation, 4/8/2020