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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Published in:	American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 110; no. 9; pp. 1371 - 1373
Main Authors:	Le, Thomas K., Cha, Leah, Han, Hae-Ra, Tseng, Winston
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States American Public Health Association 01.09.2020
Subjects:	Aggregate data AJPH Covid-19 American history Applications programs Asian Americans Asian cultural groups Asians Betacoronavirus Chinese Americans Coronavirus Infections Coronaviruses COVID-19 Disease Disease transmission Elder care Ethnic factors Gloves Hate Health disparities Health Policy Health Status Disparities Humans Immigrants Language Medicine Minority & ethnic groups Minority groups Mobile computing Mortality Noncitizens Older people Other Statistics/Evaluation/Research Pandemics Physical examinations Physicians Plague Pneumonia, Viral Policy and planning Poverty Public health Public Health Practice Public officials Quarantine Racism SARS-CoV-2 Undocumented immigrants United States Western culture Xenophobia Xenophobia - prevention & control United States United States > US San Francisco California California
ISSN:	0090-0036, 1541-0048, 1541-0048
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Summary:	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 1541-0048
DOI:	10.2105/AJPH.2020.305846