Research Guides: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Coronavirus and Racism

News & Resources on the Rise in Anti-Asian Hate Crime

StopAAPIHate.org was created in response to the alarming increase in hate and violence towards Asian Americans at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their mission includes the following:
- "Serve as the leading aggregator of anti-Asian and anti-Pacific Islander hate incidents
- Offer multilingual resources for impacted community members
- Provide technical assistance from rapid response to preventative measures
- Support community-based safety measures and restorative justice efforts
- Advocate for local, state, and national policies that reinforces human rights and civil rights protections"
The AAPI COVID-19 Project is a research organization founded within Harvard University's Department of Sociology, which aims to examine how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected the lives of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States, whether caused by the virus itself or the ever-increasing rate of hate and xenophobia towards AAPIs.
COVID's Outsized Impact on Asian American's is Being Ignored (May 2021)
- Recent studies show that lack of access to healthcare, technology, testing, and resources has contributed the increase in hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 among the AAPI community. Fear of racist attitudes and xenophobia has prevented mahy of them from seeking treatment for other health issues that could contribute to complications with COVID-19.
How Asians Became the Most Vaccinated Group in New York City (May 2021)
- Although community-based organizations have expedited the process of vaccinations among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, AAPIs still experience complications of vaccine access. Recent data does not accurately represent the twenty Asian ethnicities and how COVID-19 has affected each of them differently.

Coronavirus racism is anti-Chinese and anti-Asian scapegoating and xenophobic reactions, including fear, exclusion, microaggressions, and other racist behaviors related to this public health epidemic. For example, national news outlets have been using images of Asians and Chinatowns in unrelated contexts for stories on the spread of coronovirus in America.

Coronavirus racism also includes inappropriate "jokes," innuendos, or suggestions that any/all Chinese and members of other Asian communities are responsible for or suspected of having this illness and should be avoided.

Whether "intended" to be hurtful or not, the impact of these sorts of these "jokes" is very harmful and helps spread misinformation.

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These are a few helpful resources focused on facts about coronavirus as well as recognizing and addressing racism and microagressions related to COVID-19.

Yellow Peril Teach-In: Resources to Address Coronavirus Racism. This crowd-sourced Google doc bibliography is being compiled by librarians nationwide with resources to learn about, recognize, and address coronavirus racism.
The coronavirus reawakens old racist tropes against Chinese people, by John Pomfret, The Washington Post
I didn't want to write about coronavirus and racism. Then I got harassed twice, by Bethany Ao, The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The coronavirus exposes the history of racism and "cleanliness," by Nylah Burton, Vox
It takes all of us to reduce stigma during disease outbreaks, by John Wiseman and Toshiko Hasegawa, Washington State Department of Health
The new coronavirus is not an excuse to be racist, by Eleanor Cummins, The Verge
The true "coronavirus pandemic" is the spread of racism and xenophobia through the media, by Preeti Juturu, The Highlander
Xenophobia "is a pre-existing condition." How harmful stereotypes and racism are spreading around the coronavirus, by Jasmine Aguilera, Time
Tool for Interrupting Microaggressions, From UCSC Academic Affairs; adapted from "Interrupting Microaggressions," by College of the Holy Cross, Diversity Leadership & Education. This resource is an easy-to-use tool to help you recognize and interrupt microaggressions.

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