By Halimah Abdullah — 2020
Understanding such terms is important in efforts to tackle racism, experts say.
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In the past year and a half, Asian American Christians have been calling out the anti-Asian bias they see in their own congregations.
“I just didn’t want them to stress and not be afraid to go to school. The less they knew, the better it was.”
A new analysis reveals misconceptions about perpetrators, victims, and the general environment around anti-Asian hate incidents. These can have "long-term consequences for racial solidarity," researcher Janelle Wong said.
Until recently, I’d never really acknowledged my experiences of racism as an Asian-American woman growing up and living in the United States. On the back of the shocking recent escalation of violence and online hate against the AAPI community, everything has changed for me.
If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.