Anti-Asian Racism and Public Health

Download or read book Anti-Asian Racism and Public Health written by and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racist and xenophobic hate against Asian Americans in the midst of the COVID pandemic has been a significant threat to Asian Americans’ health – stemming from a deeply rooted Yellow Peril ideology, which racializes Asians as a threat to United States and Western culture including re-imagining Asians as a diseased public health threat. Studies have documented that Asian Americans who have experienced anti-Asian racism during the pandemic report that they are more concerned about the racism than the pandemic itself, and nearly one in five Asian Americans who experienced racism display racial trauma – the psychological and emotional harm caused by racism.