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Notions of the Asian female temptress first emerged in the wake of Europe’s Opium Wars, as colonizers’ control of Asia (especially China and Japan) became associated with control over the bodies of Asian women. “Oriental” women thus came to represent, in part, a sexualized Yellow Peril danger.

The NYPD’s new initiative to tackle rising hate crimes against the Asian community will focus on outreach and “layers of enforcement,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Thursday. Shea said enforcement would include plainclothes officers being deployed in teams “to prevent New Yorkers from becoming victims in the first place.”

The shootings of Asian people at three Atlanta spas earlier this month have set up a unique test for K-12 schools: Will they step up and grapple with anti-Asian racism, offering crucial supports to students and seizing the chance to teach about anti-Asian violence? Or will they overlook it?

Eugene Lee Yang of “The Try Guys” released a documentary about the racism and violence Asians and Asian Americans have faced in the United States.

“Hate and stigma against Asian-American populations have gone viral during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Anahi Viladrich, a professor of sociology at Queens College and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, who recently published a paper in the American Journal of Public Health exploring the rise of anti-Asian language.

Gov. Cuomo’s recent remarks about the deadly rampage in Atlanta were callous and counter-productive, 50 Asian-American groups wrote in a scathing letter to the guv.