Anti-Asian Xenophobia and Asian American COVID-19 Disparities

As coronavirus disease 2ů19 (COVID-19) has rapidly spread across the United States, so has xenophobia and discriminatory acts against Asian Americans. From March 19, 2Ů2U. to May 13, 2Ů2Ů, more than 17ŮŮ anti-Asian hate incidents were documented across the United States. according to reports by the...

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Vydáno v:American journal of public health (1971) Ročník 110; číslo 9; s. 1371 - 1373
Hlavní autoři: Le, Thomas K., Cha, Leah, Han, Hae-Ra, Tseng, Winston
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: United States American Public Health Association 01.09.2020
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ISSN:0090-0036, 1541-0048, 1541-0048
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Shrnutí:As coronavirus disease 2ů19 (COVID-19) has rapidly spread across the United States, so has xenophobia and discriminatory acts against Asian Americans. From March 19, 2Ů2U. to May 13, 2Ů2Ů, more than 17ŮŮ anti-Asian hate incidents were documented across the United States. according to reports by the STOP AAPI Hate campaign from the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council. In one incident. a trucker threw a drink atan Asian American wearing a mask and gloves and yelled. "Hey Chink, you're f-ing nasty."1Although this new rise of racism is alarming, the association between disease, racism. and Asian Americans isnot new in US history. "Yellow Peril," or the tear that Chinese and other Asian immigrants were a threat to America and Western culture. led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882-the first racial-based exclusion law in American history. At the turn of the 2ůth century. public health officials perceived Chinese and other "Orientals" as infested with disease, subjecting them to undue quarantine, medical examinations, and interrogations. For example, during the 19ůů to 19Ů4 bubonic plague in San Francisco, California. a Chinese American man. found dead in his apartment in San Francisco's Chinatown. was falsely accused of being the source of this plague; disease transmission was later found to be from rats and fleas. Nevertheless, ungrounded public xenophobia and bias against Chinese Americans resulted in the entire Chinatown area being quarantined and forced vaccinations during this period.
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ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
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DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2020.305846