Anti-Asian Racism and COVID-19: How It Started, How It Is Going, and What We Can Do.
Anti-Asian Racism and COVID-19: How It Started, How It Is Going, and What We Can Do.
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反亚裔种族主义和 COVID-19：它是如何开始的、进展如何以及我们能做什么。
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10.1097/ede.0000000000001458
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发表时间：
2022
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Dhaliwal,SatvinderK
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Perng,Wei;Dhaliwal,SatvinderK
As the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) swept across the United States in 2020 and 2021, another concern rose to the forefront of conversations: racism against Asian Americans. Indeed, the sudden and precipitous rise in anti-Asian bias and discrimination can be conceptualized as a second public health crisis—one that is linked to, but deeper running than the infectious disease pandemic. The recent spread of anti-Asian sentiment can be traced to the first reported case of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. 1 This occurrence was vilified by political condonation of racially motivated rhetoric. Stop Asian American or Pacific Islander (AAPI) Hate, a nonprofit mechanism for reporting acts of discrimination against persons of AAPI descent, cites> 9,000 such occurrences from March 2020 to June 2021. 2 Major news outlets broadcasted some of these incidents (eg, the brutal physical assault of an elderly Asian woman in New York City during which two doormen failed to intervene3) but the bulk of anti-Asian racism takes on subtler but equally harmful forms known as “micro-aggressions” that often go unrecognized or ignored. Examples include refusal for care by Asian-presenting healthcare providers4 and verbal harassment referencing the virus. 5 Although the COVID-19 pandemic stoked the flames of anti-Asian racism, the discriminatory behaviors are not new; they transpire from a largely undiscussed aspect of US history surrounding the early years of Asian immigration. Given that a critical first step to combat racism is recognizing its existence and understand root causes to identify solutions, the goals of this commentary are two-fold. First, we seek to provide an overview of the contemporary and historical contexts that fueled anti-Asian racism in the United States. Second, we put forth strategies for groups and communities as well as individuals—with a focus on health researchers and practitioners—to mitigate racialized stigma.
