From ‘Illmatic’ to ‘Kung Flu’: Black and Asian Solidarity, Activism, and Pedagogies in the Covid-19 Era

Chang, Benny Hung-Junn

doi:10.1007/s42438-020-00183-8

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“…The yellow peril narrative has intensified within recent years as China’s economic power on the world stage has grown and the U.S.’ stronghold has weakened (Li & Nicholson, 2021). As has been observed throughout the Trump administration and the COVID‐19 pandemic, Chinese people—as well as others who are racialized as “Chinese” or “Asian”—have been scapegoated for the growing inequities that have become more apparent amid a shift in global superpowers and a global health crisis (Chang, 2020). The rise in anti‐Asian sentiment throughout this time has significant implications for the sociopolitical and ethnic–racial identity development of Chinese American youth.…”

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Acknowledging Anti‐Blackness, Overlooking Anti‐Asian Racism: Missed Developmental Opportunities for Chinese American Youth

Lee

Lei

et al. 2022

J of Research on Adolesc

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This paper explores the pathways and barriers to critical consciousness development for Chinese American youth. Thirty-five interviews conducted in 2020 with high-school-aged students in Chicago were analyzed to better understand young people's experiences developing an understanding of anti-Asian racism and anti-Blackness. Results indicated that participants overwhelmingly engaged in sustained conversations about Black Lives Matter and/or made efforts to address anti-Blackness within their families, but engaged in limited conversations about anti-Asian racism. Furthermore, conversations at home and school often failed to contextualize anti-Asian racism, specifically in relation to the experiences of other oppressed groups. Findings highlight a need for research on and practice with Chinese American adolescents to recognize the unique racial positioning of Asian Americans under White supremacy.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Acknowledging Anti‐Blackness, Overlooking Anti‐Asian Racism: Missed Developmental Opportunities for Chinese American Youth

Lee

Lei

et al. 2022

J of Research on Adolesc

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“…Our findings suggest that the Asian-Black relationship became closer after COVID-19 and that it appeared to be divided into (1) black predators vs. Asian victims and (2) black and Asian victims. Previous studies have confirmed these two aspects (Chang, 2020;Ruiz et al, 2020;Solomos, 2021). We were unable to determine which aspects contributed to the relationship between Asian and Black people, but future studies with qualitative methods, such as in-depth interviews or focus group interviews, could be helpful in better understanding the impact of COVID-19 on the changes in their relationship.…”

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Anti-Asian Discourse in Quora: Comparison of Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic with Machine- and Deep-Learning Approaches

Jang

Youm

2022

Race and Justice

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The current study attempts to compare anti-Asian discourse before and during the COVID-19 pandemic by analyzing big data on Quora, one of the most frequently used community-driven knowledge sites. We created two datasets regarding “Asians” and “anti-Asians” from Quora questions and answers between 2010 and 2021. A total of 1,477 questions and 5,346 answers were analyzed, and the datasets were divided into two time periods: before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted machine-learning-based topic modeling and deep-learning-based word embedding (Word2Vec). Before the pandemic, the topics of physical difference and racism were prevalent, whereas, after the pandemic, the topics of hate crime, the need to stop Asian hate crimes, and the need for the Asian solidarity movement emerged. Above all, the semantic similarity between Asian and Black people became closer, while the similarity between Asian people and other racial/ethnic groups was diminished. The emergence of negative and radical language, which increased saliently after the outbreak of the pandemic, and the considerably wider semantic distance between Asian and White people indicates that the relationship between the two races has been weakened. The findings suggest a long-term campaign or education system to reduce racial tensions during the pandemic.

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“…According to Jandri c (2021, p. 262), '[w]hile postdigital really useful knowledge cannot be thought of without the pandemic, it reaches beyond the pandemic to the point where the pandemic experience is transformed from an object of research to an intrinsic part of our theories, approaches, research methodologies, and social struggles.' However, another snapshot is a cause for alarm: attacks on people of Asian descent are mounting around the world, encouraged, some think, by President Trump's continued reference to the 'Chinese virus' (Chang, 2020). Religious nationalism is on the rise (McLaren 2020), together with emerging reconfigurations of bio-neo-colonialism (Czerniewicz et al, 2020; see also Couldry & Mejias, 2019).…”

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Surreal economics, fiscal stimulus, and the financialization of public health: Politics of the covid-19 narrative

Peters

Jandrić

2021

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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It's not surprising that the extent of the US's deficit financing is turning heads. President Biden's $1.9 trillion deficit stimulus package comes on top of Trump's stimulus of $2.35 trillion which doesn't include the Federal Reserve's estimated $4 trillion. The US Government has devoted over $6 trillion to banishing Covid-19 and economic recovery. These statistics dwarf anything in the past including the Great Depression and US participation in WWII. Calvin Woodward (2021) describes it as 'surreal economics' at warp speed. The only saving grace is that borrowing is cheap. Some critics with little understanding of the accumulated debt think that the current stimulus might see the US economy outpace China for the first time in 45 years (Chan, 2021).Although as Ceyhun Elgin et al. ( 2020) have demonstrated the US deficit financing and fiscal response to Covid-19 as a percentage of GDP is well below Japan, Luxemburg, Belgium, and Malta (all above 15%) and Austria, Qatar, Slovenia, Singapore and the Netherlands (between 10-15%). US debt held by the public as a share of GDP is about 107%. Andrew Van Damm (2020) suggests: 'This year, for the first time since World War II, the United States will owe more than its economy can produce in a given year, the nonpartisan committee estimates. That's expected to rise to 107 percent by 2025 and as high as 120 percent by 2030 … ' Elgin et al. (2020) have suggested that public health measures including 'closures, travel restrictions, and city lockdowns' have disrupted supply chains and led to lay-offs while monetary policies have increased liquidity to banks and included transfers to households, the unemployed and the public health system. They develop an Economic Stimulus Index (CESI) after a review of economic policies adopted by 166 countries as a response to Covid-19 pandemic showing significant correlations of for example, GDP per capita health expenditures with economic stimulus packages.The sheer size of the US's Covid-19 fiscal stimulus response indicates some qualms about the government underwriting of share markets still bubbling as though there is no problem indicating the extent to which these markets seem to have decoupled from the ongoing distress of civil society. Other economies have been concerned with preventing financial system risk while keeping an eye on the debt-to-GDP ratio. China, the only economy which grew in 2020, devoted an equivalent US trillion fighting the effects of the virus and Hong Kong, some $40 billion. Japan provided a trillion dollars in liquidity and four stimulus spending packages of over a couple of US trillion. The EU provided a raft of stimulus packages expanding its PEPP program to a total of $2.24 trillion while also increasing Central Bank liquidity. The world economy shrank by 3.5% and most governments around the world followed similar stimulus response packages with an accent of relief to households and the unemployed (Alpert, 2021). Cassim et al. (2020) of McKinsey & Company reported some $10 trillion rescue in first two months of ...

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From ‘Illmatic’ to ‘Kung Flu’: Black and Asian Solidarity, Activism, and Pedagogies in the Covid-19 Era

Cited by 29 publications

References 43 publications

Acknowledging Anti‐Blackness, Overlooking Anti‐Asian Racism: Missed Developmental Opportunities for Chinese American Youth

Acknowledging Anti‐Blackness, Overlooking Anti‐Asian Racism: Missed Developmental Opportunities for Chinese American Youth

Anti-Asian Discourse in Quora: Comparison of Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic with Machine- and Deep-Learning Approaches

Surreal economics, fiscal stimulus, and the financialization of public health: Politics of the covid-19 narrative

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