Chen, S. & Wu, C. (2021). #StopAsianHate: Understanding the global rise of anti-Asian racism from a transcultural communication perspective. Journal of Transcultural Communication. (2025)

Understanding Anti-Asian Racism from Communication Perspectives: Insights from a Rapid Literature Review

Canadian journal of communication, 2023

Background: Given the escalating anti-Asian racism and xenophobia caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, this Research in Brief presents a rapid review of relevant research published between March 2020 and February 2022 in cultural studies and communication journals. Analysis: The data collection identified only 13 articles published by the target journals, indicating the marginal status of communication and media studies in the expanding body of research on anti-Asian racism. Further qualitative thematic analysis of the 13 articles revealed their analytical emphasis on anti-Asian discourse and rhetoric online. Meanwhile, the structural factors underlying the reproduction of systemic racism remain underexplored. Conclusion and implications: Based on this rapid review, it is recommended that future research pay more attention to how racial tension and discrimination are woven into everyday communications across a range of media including social media, traditional media, and interpersonal communication. There is also an urgent need for communication scholars to develop intersectional lenses that facilitate the critical analysis of macro factors (class, gender, geopolitics, etc.) that contribute to the reproduction of racial hierarchy in Canada and other settler states.

"The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S." George Washington University Department of English Blog, March 23, 2021

2021

COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. This article that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. It also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic. Racialized thinking is institutionalized as power relations. Racial discourses take the form of political marginalization of minority groups, and cause emotional distress and physical harm. ::: https://gwenglish.org/the-roots-of-anti-asian-racism-in-the-u-s-the-pandemic-and-yellow-peril/

(Contributed as a member of an Asian scholar collective) As Asian Canadian scholars, we must #StopAsianHate by fighting all forms of racism. The Conversation Canada.

The Conversation Canada, 2021

Anti-Asian racism has been present in Canada for centuries. It is deeply rooted in the historical formation of Canada through the Chinese head tax, Japanese internment camps, the Electoral Franchise Act, which explicitly denied Chinese Canadians the right to vote, and more. It is embedded within the minds of Canadians.

Virtual Town Hall Examines Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 Pandemic, GW Today, April 20, 2020

GW Today, 2020

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.”

covid-19 and Anti-Asian Racism

Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 2021

This issue of adva responds to the covid-19 pandemic and the resulting highly-mediatized surge in anti-Asian racism and misogyny, which has exacerbated deeply-rooted anti-Asian Pacific racisms in North America and underlined continuing legacies of global histories of colonialism and empire. In order to hold space for collective grief, anger, frustration, and exhaustion, and to address the heightened sense of precarity we are experiencing, many of the contributions to this issue focused on how the pandemic affected Asian diasporic artists, activists, community organizers, curators, and scholars this past year. Our authors and editors were not immune to the toll of the pandemic. We were affected by illness, from covid or from pre-existing conditions, worsened by the overburdened healthcare system and global strain, first in the search for a vaccine and now in its administration and dispensation. Rather than rush back to a business-as-usual model, we extended our deadlines and engaged with slowness; we practiced a politics of refusal. Our emergency editorial

Lived experiences of Asian Canadians encountering discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study

CMAJ Open

ARS-CoV-2, beginning in Wuhan, China, spread rapidly across countries, resulting in a global pandemic. 1 Although many impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide are clear, 2 including loss of life, decreased financial stability, and worsened physical and mental well-being, 3-5 the full extent of the damage is unknown. 3,6 The narrative that "others" from far-flung places are to blame for epidemics and pandemics is an example of a long-standing tradition of stigma. 7 Globally, in the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increase in negative attitudes, prejudice and racism toward people of Asian descent, reinforcing long-standing systemic discrimination and negative stereotypes. 6,8,9 Racial discrimination is defined as unequal treatment of individuals or groups on the basis of their race or ethnicity. 3 Racial discrimination is not the result only of private prejudices held by individuals. 10 It is also produced and reproduced by rules, laws and practices, sanctioned and often implemented by various levels of governmentsembedded in cultural and societal norms as well as the economic system. 11 Confronting and combatting racial discrimination in Canada requires changing individual attitudes as well as dismantling the institutions and policies that underpin the Canadian racial hierarchy. 12

Making Sense of the Pandemic of Racism: From the Asian Exclusion Act in 1924 to the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in 2021

Cultural Analysis, 2023

Each installment in the Cultural Analysis Forum Series remains open for subsequent submissions in the form of original Research Articles, Essays, Scholarly Responses (to published Series contributions), Author Addendums, and Reviews of literature and media relevant to the Forum Series topic(s). For further inquiries and submissions contact Cultural

Codes of Canadian Racism: Anglocentric and Assimilationist Cultural Rhetoric

2004

HE CANADIAN DISCOURSES of power that flow around race and racism infiltrate texts as diverse as a provincial referendum, the Multiculturalism Act, and prominent newspaper ads, and these discourses, both official and popular, are sources for a much wider public perception and sensibility, ones that foster attitudes intolerant of difference. Classroom study of these texts offers an opportunity to unravel the many unquestioned Canadian assumptions regarding ethnicity, visible minorities, and especially, First Nations identity and status. One of the functions of the university environment is to examine ideologies that have been previously accepted and passively consumed, enabling a rejection of these precepts and forging the possibility of radical changes in thinking. In classroom explorations of things as specific as pronouns or as expansive as national credos, one can revise and transform a Canadian ethos that has, since its inception, been founded on racist principles. Such a view of national foundations may disturb students, but it seems essential to the kind of social justice that Canada purportedly espouses that we address and reconsider this groundwork. The language of postcolonial study, while often mired in the Canadian tradition of looking elsewhere in the world for injustice, and bound by the academic tendency to distance and generalize, does offer a resource with which to describe the intricacies of racist discourses. Alongside such writers and theorists as Smaro Kam-T

Open Your Eyes: Teaching and Learning about Anti-Asian Racism and the Law in Canada

Dalhousie Law Journal, 2023

Recently, policymakers, institutional actors, and the public have made greater efforts towards being attentive to issues relating to anti-racism and discrimination, as well as equity, diversity, and inclusion more broadly, prompted in part by growing calls for reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and the increasing visibility of the Black Lives Matter movement. Yet, there has been a relative dearth of attention paid to the specific ways in which anti-Asian racism manifests and is maintained, particularly in the Canadian context. More than just being a relic of the past, anti-Asian racism is an ongoing phenomenon both within and beyond Canada’s borders, as events in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic have painfully demonstrated. This article identifies some of the ways that laws and policies have contributed and continue to contribute to the oppression of Asian people in Canada. It considers the role of legal education in both perpetuating and addressing systemic racism, especially vis-à-vis Critical Race Theory and the recent backlash against it and argues that members of the legal profession—and by extension, the law schools that educate them—have a professional and moral responsibility to take seriously the historic and contemporary experiences of exclusion to which all marginalized groups have been subjected. In so doing, it emphasizes the importance of understanding various struggles for racial justice as profoundly interconnected and inseparable, but also distinct.

Is Vancouver the Future or the Past? Asian Migrants and White Supremacy: A Review Essay