Standing against Anti-Asian Racism in America

Lee, Yeonjung Jane; Kim, Sophia B

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“…In doing so, this can help raise the visibility of social advocacy and civic engagements led and/or supported by Asian American and also ease the burden by promoting allyship and solidarity both within and between racial/ethnic groups. Lee and Kim (2021) offered several recommendations for social workers to stand against anti-Asian racism: (1) learn the long-rooted history of anti-Asian racism and unique injustices experienced by specific subgroups, (2) promote the use of non-stigmatizing language that can perpetuate xenophobia, (3) continue to build and strengthen alliances with other social justice organizations combating racism, and (4) promote governmental and local assistance for Asian Americans who experience racism. In turn, these recommendations require deeper reflections on: (1) factors like colorism and other intersecting identities that influence experiences with racism, (2) the active practice of building trusting rapport by eliminating stigmatizing language which can be enacted immediately with personal relationships (i.e., family, intimate partner, friends) and professional relationships (i.e., clients, colleagues), (3) identifying other community-based organizations with similar social justice intentions, mobilizing resources and intervention efforts, and engaging in service/volunteerism, and (4) engaging in culturally-responsive research practices including evaluation that yields disaggregated data, and in turn, data-informed interventions and practices.…”

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Asian American social workers’ experiences and perspectives on anti-Asian hate

Lau,

Bersamira,

Lee

et al. 2023

Journal of Social Work

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Summary The rise in anti-Asian hate since the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the challenges that Asian Americans in the United States (U.S.) experience with xenophobia, racism, and the “model-minority stereotype.” The model-minority stereotype is a misleading myth that has been pervasively attached to the Asian American identity and experiences. Thus, it can serve as a useful framework to understand experiences in the current anti-Asian hate climate. In this exploratory qualitative study, the investigators interviewed Asian American social workers ( N = 17), highlighting their perspectives and experiences during the anti-Asian hate climate, with attention paid to how the model minority stereotype was contextualized among participants. Findings The resounding tone underlying participants’ model-minority stereotype-related discussions was the need to counter the model minority stereotype. Notably, the model-minority stereotype was contextualized differently for participants and three themes were identified: (1) limbo between model minority and perpetual foreigner status; (2) impacts on the social worker role and in the organizational setting; and (3) impacts on advocacy work. Applications Study findings suggest a need for continued support and opportunities to unlearn and relearn the purpose of the model-minority stereotype and its broad sweep and attacks on various health dimensions (physically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually) across Asian Americans ethnic groups. Countering the model-minority stereotype can play a pivotal role in transforming the narratives surrounding Asian American's identity and experiences in the U.S., in addition to organizational culture and dynamics to support Asian Americans social workers practice and advocacy work across practice levels.

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Asian American social workers’ experiences and perspectives on anti-Asian hate

Lau,

Bersamira,

Lee

et al. 2023

Journal of Social Work

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“…Therefore, it is possible that episodes of cancel culture that explicitly provide greater affective social support of the East Asian community (as was done in Study 2), may inspire the kind of collective validation that allows for greater expression of perpetrator-directed negative emotions. This may be, in part, because this affective social support directly challenges stereotypical expectations of East Asian people imposed by the MMM ( Aguirre and Lio, 2008 ; Yoo et al, 2010 ; Lee, 2022 ).…”

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“…The resulting lack of public attention has also led to limited attention from social psychological and anti-racism research. However, anti-Asian racism has been rampant in North America for decades, and there is growing public discourse and activism ( Brockell, 2021 ; Government of Canada, 2021 ; Lee, 2022 ). Therefore, a focus on anti- East Asian discrimination and collective responses to it are both important and timely.…”

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Cancel culture can be collectively validating for groups experiencing harm

2023

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IntroductionSocial psychological research on collective action and intergroup harm has yet to adequately consider the potential role of cancel culture or feelings of collective validation in motivating collective action. The current research will begin to fill this gap and may broaden our understanding of the psychological mechanisms that inspire and maintain collective action in response to intergroup harm. To our knowledge, this research is the first social psychological analysis of the impact of cancel culture on collective action and as means for producing feelings of collective validation.MethodsIn two experimental studies, participants read a story describing an event of discrimination against their group followed by a manipulation of the presence or absence of an episode of cancel culture. Study 1 samples woman university students (N = 520) and focuses on their responses to a sexist incident on campus. Study 2 (pre-registered) assesses the generality of the model in a racism context with a community sample of East Asian Canadians and Americans (N = 237).ResultsStudy 1 showed that an episode of cancel culture had an indirect positive effect on collective action intentions mediated by feelings of collective validation and collective empowerment. Study 2 showed the indirect effect of cancel culture on collective action intentions mediated by feelings of collective validation and collective anger and contempt.DiscussionThe current research offers a novel theoretical and empirical introduction to the concept of collective validation and the understudied context of cancel culture to the existing social psychological research and theory on collective action. Further, cancel culture has been criticized as problematic. However, this perspective centres those in positions of power. Through this research, we hope to shift the focus onto marginalized groups’ perspectives of episodes of cancel culture. This research shows that groups who experience harm find these episodes of cancel culture validating in ways that have yet to be fully explored by intergroup relations research. Further, these findings suggest that collective validation does mediate the relationship between cancel culture and collective action; thus, cancel culture becomes an important contributor to resistance by marginalized groups through collective validation.

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“…Intersecting health, immigration status and racialized stigma during the COVID‐19 syndemic contributed to the proliferation of hate speech and direct attacks against people racialized as migrants and refugees, particularly against those with precarious immigration status (Vega Macías, 2021). Blatant racism toward people of Asian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) descent, for example, increased dramatically in the United States during 2020, no doubt fueled by the then President's rhetoric about the “Chinese virus” (Gover et al, 2020; Lee & Kim, 2022; Yellow Horse et al, 2021). This tragic situation contributed to “unique mental health disparities and the presence of race‐based trauma among AAPIs residing in the United States” (Litam, 2020, p. 1).…”

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A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic

Esposito

Rebelo

Olanrewaju

et al. 2023

American J of Comm Psychol

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This article explores the magnifying lenses of the COVID‐19 syndemic to highlight how people racialized as migrants and refugees have been—and continue to be—disproportionally harmed. We use empirical evidence collected in our scholarly/activist work in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the United States to examine migrant injustice as being produced by a combination of power structures and relations working to maintain colonial global orders and inequalities. This is what has been defined as “border imperialism.” Our data, complemented by evidence from transnational solidarity groups, show that border imperialism has further intersected with the hygienic‐sanitary logics of social control at play during the COVID‐19 period. This intersection has resulted in increasingly coercive methods of restraining people on the move, as well as in increased—and new—forms of degradation of their lives, that is, an overall multiplication of border violences. At the same time, however, COVID‐19 has provided a unique opportunity for grassroot solidarity initiatives and resistance led by people on the move to be amplified and extended. We conclude by emphasizing the need for community psychologists to take a more vigorous stance against oppressive border imperialist regimes and the related forms of violence they re/enact.

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Standing against Anti-Asian Racism in America

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

Asian American social workers’ experiences and perspectives on anti-Asian hate

Asian American social workers’ experiences and perspectives on anti-Asian hate

Cancel culture can be collectively validating for groups experiencing harm

A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID‐19 syndemic

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