Asian Americans are anxious about hate crimes. TikTok ban rhetoric isn’t helping
The heated rhetoric surrounding China has undergone a shift from the pandemic’s early days, when xenophobia linked to Covid-19 was unambiguous.
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The unseen Asian American mental health crisis
Asian Americans’ psychological state over the last few years has been one of hypervigilance and pretending — constantly having to act as if everything is “business as usual” even amid high-profile anti-Asian attacks and the aftereffects of collective trauma, health advocates and experts tell Axios.
GRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD: NIKKEI HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE (University of Victoria)
Current Masters and PhD-level students are invited to apply for $3,000 awards to support their research on the experiences of people of Japanese descent in the Americas and the Pacific. Open to all nationalities and scholarly fields.
Hate crimes jumped nearly 12% in 2021, new FBI figures show
The revised statistics follow preliminary numbers that indicated a slight decrease in hate crimes that year.
Asian Americans most likely to join employee diversity groups but don’t feel supported, report says
“The pattern they see is regardless of whether they’re involved in these ERGs, they’re not seeing much in the way of progress,” said Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder of AAPI Data.
No, my Japanese American parents were not ‘interned’ during WWII. They were incarcerated
Internment. Incarceration. Not many people make a distinction between the two terms or understand why it’s so important to do so. But in a historic decision aimed at accuracy and reconciliation, the Los Angeles Times announced Thursday that it would drop the use of “internment” in most cases to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 … Read more