Researchers suggest that harmful stereotypes about Asian-American women as hypersexual, meek or submissive make them seem like easy targets. Last year alone, women of Asian descent were screamed at, shoved, coughed on or spit at, shunned, assaulted and subjected to other forms of harassment or discrimination that coupled hateful remarks with sexist, misogynistic language. Research from Virulent Hate, a project run by researchers at the University of Michigan to analyze how Asian-Americans have experienced racism during the pandemic, found a similar pattern when looking at incidents reported in the news media. Nearly 3,800 hate incidents against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders - ranging from verbal harassment to physical assaults - have been reported nationwide since March 2020, according to Stop AAPI Hate, an initiative tracking the violence.Īdvocates say these numbers are an underestimate of what is really going on: many incidents go unreported, and those with a sexual dimension tend to be classified as sex offenses, not racial incidents.Īlmost 70 percent of the incidents reported to Stop AAPI Hate were done so by women. About three in 10 Asian-Americans - a number higher than those of any other groups surveyed - reported that they had been subjected to slurs or jokes because of their race or ethnicity since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, according to a Pew Research Center survey of nearly 10,000 Americans in June 2020. The shootings come amid a surge of anti-Asian discrimination and violence in the past year.
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