Amidst pandemic and racial upheaval: Where Asian Americans Fit

Hua, Whitney; Junn, Jane

doi:10.1017/rep.2020.46

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“…However, our results may generalize to Chinese Americans and even Asian Americans, regardless of their ancestry or birth countries. Chinese Americans, like Asian Americans generally, have been framed as perpetual foreigners (Tessler et al 2020), and their American identities are routinely questioned, even today (Cheryan and Monin 2005;Hua and Junn 2021). Combined with the unquestioned Americanness of Whites (Cheryan and Monin 2005), we are confident that the discrimination we observed reflects, in large part, differences in the treatment of people viewed as Chinese American versus White American.…”

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Politics, not Vulnerability: Republicans Discriminated against Chinese-born Americans throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abascal

Makovi

Yao

2023

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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Asian Americans became targets of increasingly hostile behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. What motivated this? Fears of contagion arising from a behavioral immune system may have motivated hostility toward Asian Americans, especially among those Americans vulnerable to COVID-19. Additionally, stigmatizing rhetoric from right-wing figures may have legitimated anti-Asian behavior among those Americans who held stronger anti-Asian sentiments to begin with or who were more receptive to right-wing rhetoric. We explore these possibilities using a behavioral game with a representative sample of Americans at two points: in May and October 2020. Participants were partnered with a U.S.- or Chinese-born American in a give-or-take dictator game. The average American discriminated against Chinese-born Americans in May but not October 2020, when China was no longer a COVID-19 hotspot. But among Republicans, who may have held stronger anti-Asian sentiments to begin with and who were likely more receptive to right-wing rhetoric, discrimination—that is, differential treatment—was both stronger in May compared to non-Republicans and persisted into October 2020. Notably, Americans who were more vulnerable to COVID-19 were not especially likely to discriminate.

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Politics, not Vulnerability: Republicans Discriminated against Chinese-born Americans throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abascal

Makovi

Yao

2023

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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“…In the present day, Asian Americans are thought of as “competent” yet “cold” individuals who are stereotyped as intelligent and high achieving, yet non-American and unassimilable (Zou and Cheryan 2017; Fiske 2018; Cheryan and Monin 2005). Despite the pervasive stereotype of Asian Americans as “near White” or the “model minority,” COVID-19 has laid bare the perpetual alien-ness of Asian Americans (Hua and Junn 2021).…”

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COVID-19 and Asian Americans: How Elite Messaging and Social Exclusion Shape Partisan Attitudes

Chan¹,

Kim²,

Leung³

2021

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Extending theories of social exclusion and elite messaging, we argue that Trump’s targeted rhetoric toward Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic pushes the racial group, largely “Independent” or nonpartisan affiliated, to lean more towards the Democratic Party. We support this claim by combining social media (Study 1) and survey data (Study 2) analysis. Tracing 1.4 million tweets, we find that Trump’s rhetoric has popularized racially charged coronavirus-related terms and that exclusionary, anti-Asian attitudes have increased in the United States since the pandemic began. Next, by analyzing repeated cross-sectional weekly surveys of Asian Americans from July 2019 to May 2020 (n=12,907), we find that the group has leaned more towards the Democratic Party since Trump first made inflammatory remarks towards Asian Americans. Whites, Blacks, and Latina/os, on the other hand, exhibited fewer and less consistent changes in Democratic Party-related attitudes. Our findings suggest that experiences with social exclusion that are driven by elite sources further cement Asian Americans as Democrats.

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“…At the same time, dual casting as “forever foreigners” might comprise a basis for linked fate among Asian Americans and Latinx (C. J. Kim 1999). The Trump Administration’s aggressive policies aimed at restricting immigration at the southern border and racialized rhetoric related to the pandemic (“China Virus” and “Kung Flu”) may have also served to reinforce a sense of foreignness among both Latinos (Wray-Lake et al, 2018) and Asian Americans (Darling-Hammond 2020; Hua and Junn, 2021).…”

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Reconsidering Group Interests

2021

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This paper aims to explore attitudes toward immigration among two non-White groups, Asian Americans and Black Americans. For more than a decade, individuals from Asia have comprised the majority of immigrants entering the United States each year. Today, the majority of the Asian American U.S. population remains foreign-born. Yet using data collected from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey and the 2016 National Asian American Survey—a time period marked by high levels of saliency with regard to immigration issues—we find that Black Americans, the majority of whom are U.S.-born, exhibit even more progressive attitudes towards immigration, both legal and undocumented, than mostly foreign-born Asian Americans. Our research challenges economic and material theories related to immigration attitudes and suggests that political connections to and “linked fate” with other minorities better explain why Black Americans exhibit more progressive attitudes toward immigration than Asian Americans.

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Amidst pandemic and racial upheaval: Where Asian Americans Fit

Cited by 7 publications

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Politics, not Vulnerability: Republicans Discriminated against Chinese-born Americans throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

Politics, not Vulnerability: Republicans Discriminated against Chinese-born Americans throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 and Asian Americans: How Elite Messaging and Social Exclusion Shape Partisan Attitudes

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