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Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 Pandemic, GW Today, April 20, 2020
- Author(s):
- Alexa Alice Joubin (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- LLC East Asian, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese
- Subject(s):
- Racism, Equality, Popular culture, China, Law, History
- Item Type:
- Newspaper article
- Tag(s):
- COVID-19, pandemic, racial equity, Medical humanities, Social inequality, Legal history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/ysnd-fs57
- Abstract:
- Asian Americans have been spat on, verbally assaulted and physically attacked in more than a thousand race-related incidents in the United States as a result of fear evoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexa Alice Joubin, professor of English and international affairs, women’s studies and East Asian languages and cultures, provided a historical context for the discussion. She said connecting the language of disease to racism is not a new phenomenon. For example, it was seen in an 1886 soap advertisement “for kicking the Chinese out of the U.S.,” she said, and dubbed “yellow fever” in reference to white men who have a fetish for Asian women. Joubin said the language is associated with a history of discrimination against Chinese that made it into U.S. law, including the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Cable Act that prevented Chinese from becoming citizens even when they married U.S. citizens. It will take all of our cognitive ability, analytical reasoning “to concentrate and harness our resources to combat disinformation,” she said, “Our greatest fight is about fear.”
- Notes:
- See also https://gwenglish.blogspot.com/2020/04/anti-asian-racism-and-covid-19-town.html and https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/virtual-town-hall-examines-anti-asian-racism
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Newspaper article Show details
- Pub. URL:
- https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/virtual-town-hall-examines-anti-asian-racism
- Pub. Date:
- April 20, 2020
- Newspaper:
- GW Today
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial
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