{"id":1864,"date":"2021-03-19T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/in-the-midst-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-wave-of-anti-asian-violence-has-risen\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T18:05:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T01:05:26","slug":"covid-19-pandemic-sparks-wave-of-anti-asian-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/covid-19-pandemic-sparks-wave-of-anti-asian-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a wave of anti-Asian violence has risen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n            \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3430-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3430-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a wave of anti-Asian violence has risen\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  While investigators work to uncover details in the mass killing in Atlanta, including possible motives, many are speaking out about violence against Asians and Asian Americans. (Image Source: iStock.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=social-impact\">Social Impact<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a wave of anti-Asian violence has risen<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  USC experts discuss the recent murders in Atlanta, a surge in violence against people of Asian descent, and what can be done about it. <strong>[5 min read]<\/strong>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Jenesse Miller and Darrin S. Joy<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">March 19, 2021<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n              <svg height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 19 19\" width=\"19\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m7.43475275 9.52380952-2.17490843 2.26076008c-1.08745421 1.058837-1.68841575 2.518315-1.68841575 4.0350275 0 1.5167124.60096154 2.9475732 1.68841575 4.0350274 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COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/11\/975592502\/asian-americans-experience-far-more-hate-incidents-than-numbers-indicate?utm_source=npr_newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=20210319&amp;utm_term=5255231&amp;utm_campaign=life-kit&amp;utm_id=41020720&amp;orgid=286&amp;utm_att1=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rising reports of crimes<\/a> targeting people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent. On March 16, a white man was charged with killing eight people, including six women of Asian and Pacific Islander descent, at Atlanta-area spas.<\/p>\n<p>While the mass killing and possible motives continue to be investigated, many \u2014 including members of Congress \u2014 are speaking out about the growing incidents of anti-Asian violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/03\/17\/atlanta-shooting-sparks-calls-for-action-against-anti-asian-violence\/4731957001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Judy Chu<\/a> of Monterey Park, California, chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/capac-chu.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus<\/a>, has called for a national day to speak out against the violence, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/19\/biden-harris-to-meet-with-asian-american-leaders-in-atlanta-after-shooting-spree.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a> traveled to Atlanta to speak to local lawmakers and Asian American advocates.<\/p>\n<p>Several USC experts outlined the history of anti-Asian violence in America and called for action.<\/p>\n<h2>The Atlanta massacre is part of a wider pattern of violence<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Viet-Nguyen-1-3430.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Viet Thanh Nguyen wearing a black, collared shirt and dark gray sport coat with shelves full of books behind him\" width=\"266\" height=\"213\" \/>In a March 18 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/author-viet-thanh-nguyen-on-the-deep-well-of-anti-asian-racism-in-the-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> on the PBS program <i>News Hour<\/i>, University Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1003574\">Viet Thanh Nguyen<\/a>, Aerol Arnold Chair of English and professor of English, American studies and ethnicity and comparative literature at USC Dornsife, said the shootings were part of a wider pattern of anti-Asian violence.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/2316\/usc-dornsifes-viet-thanh-nguyen-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-fiction\/\">Pulitzer Prize-winning<\/a> author of <i>The Committed<\/i> (Grove Press, 2021) spoke of his own experience and that of his family, and said, \u201cThose of us familiar with Asian American history know that Asians have been targeted for violence in this country as long as there have been Asian immigrants in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He spoke of the misguided notion of Asian Americans as the \u201cmodel minority\u201d and pointed to the community\u2019s often-overlooked socioeconomic diversity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsian Americans are often situated today, in contemporary discourse, as somehow being safe. We\u2019re the \u2018model minority.\u2019 We are successful in college, et cetera, et cetera,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd people are not aware of the fact that there\u2019s huge diversity in the Asian American population. There are a lot of poor Asian Americans, a lot of Asian Americans living in vulnerable economic situations, and they\u2019re ripe for this kind of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Atlanta murders were shaped by a complicated history<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"style=&quot;float: alignleft\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Dorinne-Kondo-3430.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Dorinne Kondo smiling in a black top\" width=\"217\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1003424\">Dorinne Kondo<\/a>, a professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/\">American studies and ethnicity<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/anth\/\">anthropology<\/a> at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, pointed to the historic roots of anti-Asian violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistories of imperialism and war, Orientalism as the masculine penetration of a supine, feminized Asia and the scapegoating of Asians as disease-bearing, eternal foreigners all shape the Atlanta murders,\u201d she said. \u201cThese forces shape everyday lives through institutions, foreign policy and laws; they permeate popular and \u2018high\u2019 culture, from the internet to TV to theater to opera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kondo, who is the former director of <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ase\/asian-american-studies\/\">Asian American studies<\/a> at USC Dornsife, called for deeper consideration of history and warned against dismissing the Atlanta murders as an isolated incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to combat economic inequality, educate ourselves about BIPOC histories, organize in solidarity and critique the ideologies that shape our everyday assumptions,\u201d she said. \u201cThis was not the result of one white man\u2019s \u2018bad day.\u2019 Historical power relations position Asian women as submissive, exotic fetishes who exist to service \u2018Western\u2019 men. We need to upend those power structures.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Don\u2019t blame the victims<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"style=&quot;float: alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Rhacel-Salazar-Parrenas-3430.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Rhacel Salazar Parrenas smiling wearing a blue top\" width=\"221\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1032936\">Rhacel Salazar Parre\u00f1as<\/a>, professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/soci\/\">sociology<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/genderstudies\/\">gender<\/a> studies at USC Dornsife, researches labor, gender and international migration. While some have linked the massacre to human sex <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/2936\/human-trafficking-awareness-must-increase\/\">trafficking<\/a>, she explains how this could paint a false picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnti-trafficking groups have tied this targeted mass killing of eight individuals, including six Asian American women, to sex trafficking,\u201d she said. \u201cThey suggest this violence was bound to happen because these \u2018illicit massage businesses\u2019 are \u2018inherently violent.\u2019 This is a dangerously misleading assertion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe association of commercial sex with violence suggests the victims knowingly put themselves in harm\u2019s way. One of many problems with calling it sex trafficking is that it redirects us from seeing it for what it is. It is a gendered racialized violence, dehumanizing Asian women as disposable bodies for white male rage.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Asian women face both racism and sexism<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"style=&quot;float: alignleft\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Ariel-Gross-3430.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Ariel Gross smiling wearing a cream colored tank top\" width=\"206\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe murders in Atlanta showcase the plight of Asian and Asian American women today. They live at the intersection of racism and misogyny, fetishized as sexual objects and seen as less than fully human subjects,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1003308\">Ariela Gross<\/a>, professor of law and <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/\">history<\/a> at USC Dornsife and the <a href=\"https:\/\/gould.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC Gould School of Law<\/a> and an expert in race, slavery and civil rights law.<\/p>\n<p>Gross points out the fallacy in the murderer\u2019s attempts to explain his violent actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe murderer tried to explain away his killing spree as a product of \u2018sex addiction,\u2019 and to some this suggested he was not racially motivated. On the contrary, that is how intersectionality works: Sexism is racialized in a violent fantasy of Asian American women\u2019s total submission.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>USC Dornsife research found Asians reporting COVID-related discrimination<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"style=&quot;float: alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Ying-Liu-CESR-3430.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Ying Liu smiling wearing glasses and a black jacket with a striped scarf\" width=\"225\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cesr.usc.edu\/people\/staff\/liu385\">Ying Liu<\/a>, research scientist at the USC Dornsife <a href=\"https:\/\/cesr.usc.edu\/\">Center for Economic and Social Research<\/a>, co-authored a study that showed <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/3249\/covid-related-discrimination-impacts-racial-minorities\/\">Asians and Asian Americans<\/a> were more than twice as likely as whites to report experiencing pandemic-related discrimination. She worries that the rise in anti-Asian violence may carry beyond the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the very beginning of the pandemic, in March 2020, we first observed Asian Americans being the most vulnerable racial or ethnic group to experience COVID-related discrimination,\u201d she said. \u201cThis gap has persisted in various phases of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, one year later, we are seeing an increase in hate crimes against Asians. Will this be part of our new norm post-COVID?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Combating anti-Asian racism in the classroom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"style=&quot;float: alignleft\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Tracy-Poon-Tambascia-3430.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Tracy Poon Tambascia\" width=\"233\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFueled by racist rhetoric, the characterization of COVID-19 as the \u2018Chinese virus\u2019 or the \u2018Wuhan flu\u2019 has created an environment of blame and xenophobia,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/rossier.usc.edu\/faculty-and-research\/directories\/a-z\/profile\/?id=84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tracy Poon Tambascia<\/a>, professor of clinical education at the <a href=\"https:\/\/rossier.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USC Rossier School of Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tambascia, whose scholarship includes international higher education and minoritized student access and success in higher education, recently wrote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rossier.usc.edu\/magazine\/fall-winter-2020\/combating-anti-asian-racism-in-the-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a recent piece<\/a> about countering anti-AAPI racism in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether classes are held in person or online, it\u2019s important for educators to be aware that such rhetoric can create traumatizing, unsafe and damaging environments for AAPI students,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a number of things educators can do to address anti-AAPI racism. Educators cannot be neutral and need to develop the ability to turn a phrase into a learning moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Asian American women fight back<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"style=&quot;float: alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Nayan-Shah-3430.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Nayan Shah smiling in a striped blue shirt\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cf\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty.cfm?pid=1043400\">Nayan Shah<\/a>, professor of American studies and ethnicity and history, sees the massacre in Atlanta as the latest in a long pattern of violence against women of Asian descent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe upsurge of hateful violence in the pandemic and the targeted mass murder of Asian American women at their place of work in Georgia is part of an American continuum of violence, erasure and forgetting,\u201d he said. \u201cAsians are perceived and treated as anonymous and expendable labor in the United States. For more than 150 years, Asian women in the United States endured the sexualization of men who exploit them. In 1876, the federal government\u2019s first racially targeted immigration laws sought to expel Asian women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the tide may be turning as the Asian and Pacific Islander community gains representation in government, according to Shah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, with the highest number of Asian American legislators in the U.S. House and state legislatures, Asian American women are fighting back, demanding accountability and bold action to stem the tide of hate and to educate American society to recognize the harassment and suffering they endure and to uphold their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>USC students who have been adversely affected by the recent violence in Atlanta or would like assistance may access the following events, resources and programs:<\/i><\/p>\n<ul style=\"background-color: #f5f5f5;\">\n<li><strong>March 25: <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/the_rise_of_anti-asian_violence_and_how_to_support_apida_communities#.YFS6RulKj0u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rise of Anti-Asian Violence and How to Support APIDA Communities<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>Join APASS, SCAPE, APASA, and Helenes for an open discussion about the recent surge in hate crimes in the Asian American community and learn more about resources available for reporting and mental health, as well as action items &amp; allyship against xenophobia and racism. Note: This will be an open event, so please feel free to invite non-Helenes to come as well!<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/usc.edu\/bipocmentalhealth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">BIPOC Mental Health resource site<\/a>\u00a0is available to all students and connects the student community with resources, including therapists who share the same cultural identities. 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