Against carceral data collection in response to anti-Asian violences

Kuo, Rachel; Bui, Matthew N.

doi:10.1177/20539517211028252

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“…As an organization that emerged during the pandemic, Stop AAPI Hate has narrowly focused on the promotion of rights and redress for Asian Americans. This work has primarily used data collection and reports to emphasize the scale and scope of anti-Asian violence and advocate for state and federal legislation to respond to anti-Asian hate, including new bills on increasing surveillance and policing as preventative measures (Kuo and Bui, 2021). The Stop AAPI Hate account focuses on sharing recent statistics about anti-Asian hate crimes, sharing anecdotes of harassment, and releasing formal public statements about discrimination and violence experienced by Asian Americans.…”

Section: The Outliers: Lived Solidarity and Promotion Politicsmentioning

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The political uses of memory: Instagram and Black-Asian solidarities

Kuo

Jackson

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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This study investigates how activist organizations wield collective memory as they advance cross-racial solidarity on Instagram. We center digital memory-making in political work by Black and Asian activist organizations as a contribution to understanding social movement communication and online organizing. We study Instagram content from local organizations in Minneapolis (and the Midwest region), Atlanta (and the Southeast region), and national digital organizing collectives between the end of May 2020 to June 2021. This corpus of material includes the summer uprisings for Black liberation following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, as well as the increased visibility of incidents of anti-Asian violence during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a mass shooting at massage parlors in Atlanta. Among our findings is the centrality of memories of internationalist feminist movements to contemporary cross-racial politics.

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Section: The Outliers: Lived Solidarity and Promotion Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The political uses of memory: Instagram and Black-Asian solidarities

Kuo

Jackson

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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“…However, hate crime statistics and legislation, policing, and crime control may not provide the systemic changes necessary to address anti-Asian violence. Kuo and Bui (2021) argue that hate crimes data collection and police data surveillance are carceral data that contribute to narratives that justify the incarceration of communities of color and enact further violence. Therefore, "law enforcement and police data are not the solution for safety nor for redressing anti-Asian violence" (Kuo and Bui 2021, 6).…”

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Anti-Asian Violence and Abolition Feminism as Asian American Feminist Praxis

Lo¹

2023

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Anti-Asian violence during the pandemic has been largely framed by mainstream media as an individual response to the pandemic and reduces anti-Asian violence to "hate" toward Asians, therefore justifying increased use of law enforcement and carceral punishment of individuals committing hate incidents. Additionally, some members of the Asian American community advocate for policy changes and collection of hate crimes statistics that rely more on carceral punishment. Other members of the Asian American community argue that hate crime statistics and legislation do not provide systemic changes necessary to address anti-Asian violence. Specifically, Asian American abolition feminists are challenging mainstream narratives that isolate violence to conversations of racism alone and calling for the abolition of the carceral system that is historically and inherently responsible for violence against Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) communities and women. This paper addresses carceral solutions to anti-Asian violence and the opportunities of abolition feminism as an Asian American feminist praxis to challenge violence against Asian Americans. Focusing on survivor-led movements and responses to violence in its multiple forms, I discuss how abolition feminism may be necessary for redressing anti-Asian violence. I also consider how Asian American abolition feminism can achieve truly liberating, transformative solutions and healing to violence through an abolitionist and decolonial feminist praxis that centers and engages with Indigenous Pacific Islander communities.

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Who are we? Highlighting Nuances in Asian American Experiences in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Nguyen

Akiona

Chang

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Bulletin Ecologic Soc America

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In many sectors of United States society, Asians are viewed as a monolith and grouped into the broad category of Asian American Pacific Islander, or AAPI (Iftikar and Museus 2018). However, it is important to acknowledge the history of the term Asian American and nuances between AAPI ethnic groups in the United States if we are interested in promoting racial justice in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB), other scientific fields, and society at large.To provide a brief history, the terms "Asian American" and "AAPI" arose following activism in the 1960s by Asian communities fighting for recognition in the United States (Okamoto 2006). The organizers and activists intended to use Asian American as a solidarity-building term and were directly influenced by Black organizers and the Black Panther Party (Ogbar 2001).

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Against carceral data collection in response to anti-Asian violences

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

The political uses of memory: Instagram and Black-Asian solidarities

The political uses of memory: Instagram and Black-Asian solidarities

Anti-Asian Violence and Abolition Feminism as Asian American Feminist Praxis

Who are we? Highlighting Nuances in Asian American Experiences in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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