Reckoning with Asian America

Lee, Jennifer; Huang, Tiffany J.

doi:10.1126/science.abi6877

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“…Its focus is on quotidian behavior, which Asian Americans may have been more likely to encounter than hate crimes, including physical violence. As such, our study answers recent calls for research on the exclusionary practices that Asian Americans routinely face (Lee and Huang 2021). Our objective resembles that of recent research relying on an embedded vignette experiment to investigate discriminatory intent and prejudice towards various minority groups in the US during the pandemic in the context of roommate selection (Lu et al 2021).…”

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Republicans Discriminated Against Chinese-born Americans Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abascal¹,

Makovi²,

Xu³

2021

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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 (BIS) may have motivated differential treatment towards Chinese-born US residents, especially early in the pandemic and among those vulnerable to COVID-19. On the other hand, rhetoric from right-wing media figures may have legitimated anti-Asian behavior. We explore these questions using a behavioral game with a representative sample of Americans at two points: in spring and fall 2020. Participants were partnered with a US- or Chinese-born US resident. The average American treated Chinese-born US residents worse compared to US-born residents in the spring but not the fall, when China was no longer a COVID-19 hotspot. But among Republicans, likely more receptive to right-wing rhetoric, unequal treatment was both stronger in the spring and persisted into the fall.

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confidence: 68%

Republicans Discriminated Against Chinese-born Americans Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abascal¹,

Makovi²,

Xu³

2021

Preprint

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“…Therefore, it is important for prevention and intervention programs addressing PPDS in the Asian/Pacific Islander community to focus on building strong sense of racial identity and effective coping skills with racial discrimination experiences. In addition, future efforts to explicitly debunk or counter anti-Asian sentiments such as the recent Atlanta mass shooting targeting Asians, other anti-Asian hate crimes, anti-Asian immigration laws, and the notion that Asians are the “model minority” (Lee & Huang, 2021; Lee & Waters, 2020) in the U.S. are necessary in order to reduce and prevent high levels of PPDS among Asian/Pacific Islander women in the U.S.…”

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Stressful experiences and postpartum depressive symptoms among Asian and Pacific Islander women in the U.S.: The significance of racial discrimination.

Du¹,

Steinberg²

2023

Stigma and Health

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Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women are at higher risk of postpartum depression (PPD) compared with White, Black, and Hispanic women. However, research has rarely focused on investigating risk factors for PPD among API women in the U.S., nor has much research focused on the effects of racial discrimination on PPD. This study is one of the first to examine the association between multiple types of stressors and postpartum depressive symptoms (PPDS) among API women in the U.S., with a focus on the social stressor of racial discrimination. We analyzed data from 3,319 API women from Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) who gave birth between 2012 and 2018. We conducted both multiple linear and logistic regression analyses to examine whether the three stressful experiences (racial discrimination, number of family stressors, and physical violence from an intimate partner) were each independently associated with more or elevated PPDS, and whether there was an interaction between number of family stressors or physical violence and racial discrimination on PPDS. The number of family stressors and racial discrimination were independently associated with PPDS, and these main effects were qualified by an interaction. Specifically, for those who experienced three or fewer family stressors (93.3% of the present sample), racial discrimination increased PPDS. For those who experienced four or more family stressors, racial discrimination did not have an effect. These results suggest racial discrimination does play an important role in PPD among API women. Future efforts should address racial discrimination of API women in the U.S. in order to decrease PPDS.

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“…The Page Act of 1875 prohibited immigration of Chinese women who were assumed to be "immoral" and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 extended the prohibition to men. 22 Chinese laborers who were already in the United States and had helped to build the transcontinental railroad segregated into close-knit communities, where they were also exposed to neighborhood destruction, lynching, and other violence. For decades Asian Americans of various backgrounds were relegated to "unskilled labor" until the 1965 Immigration Act prioritized wealthy and highly educated immigrants from China and Japan.…”

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Disruptive Innovations to Achieve Health Equity Through Healthcare and Research Transformation

Golden

2022

Clin Pharma and Therapeutics

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In order to achieve health equity, we must implement innovative health system, public health, and policy-level interventions to address the historical root causes of structural and institutional racism embedded in our medical and social systems. A history of unconsented medical and research experimentation on vulnerable groups and residual healthcare provider biases toward minoritized patients has led to patient distrust of medical systems and poor quality of care. Historical discriminatory housing and lending policies resulted in racial residential segregation and neighborhoods with inadequate housing, healthy food access, and educational resources, resulting in present-day social determinants of health (SDOH). To reduce these disparities and achieve health equity, four disruptive healthcare innovations are recommended: (i) infuse health equity principles into clinical workflows by implementing National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services Standards; (ii) address poverty-related SDOH; (iii) deliver care and recruit for research in nonclinical settings to reach marginalized communities; and (iv) leverage health system subject matter experts to advocate for health equity policies. During the COVID-19 pandemic we leveraged the diversity of our workforce to deliver bilingual and culturally tailored COVID-19 testing, education, and vaccines to the Hispanic and Black communities in nonclinical settings, the primary marginalized communities served by our health system that were also disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Now that we understand the importance of using innovative health equity strategies to reach marginalized communities, we must continue to re-engineer our healthcare systems to deliver care outside of our brick and mortar to overcome barriers in access to care and mistrust in the healthcare establishment stemming from past abuses and remaining experiences of bias.The Heckler Report, generated from the 1983-1984 Task Force on Black and Minority Health under the auspices of then US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler, was the first to comprehensively quantify and document health disparities among minoritized race/ethnic groups in the United States. 1 At that time health disparities accounted for 60,000 excess deaths each year with six causes of death accounting for more than 80% of mortality among Black and other minoritized populations: cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke, chemical dependency (measured by deaths due to cirrhosis), diabetes, homicide and accidents (unintentional injuries), and infant mortality. 1 The report outlined recommendations to reduce health disparities, which focused on lifestyle choices and interventions to change behaviors, and the need to improve data collection not just among the Black population but also among Hispanic, Asian American, and American Indian/Alaska Native populations. It sparked several structural changes in the Department of Health and Human Services, including establi...

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Reckoning with Asian America

Cited by 17 publications

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Republicans Discriminated Against Chinese-born Americans Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

Republicans Discriminated Against Chinese-born Americans Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

Stressful experiences and postpartum depressive symptoms among Asian and Pacific Islander women in the U.S.: The significance of racial discrimination.

Disruptive Innovations to Achieve Health Equity Through Healthcare and Research Transformation

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