Author Ava Chin, a 5th generation New Yorker, traces the roots of today’s high rates of anti-Asian violence back to 19th century U.S. labour and immigration laws.
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The invisibility of anti-Asian racism is inextricably connected to the model minority myth, which serves to disguise the violence experienced by Asian American and Asian Canadian women.
Fear of COVID-19 has sparked some to react with violent racism towards Asian Americans and Canadians. This is not the first time fear of disease has led to outbreaks of violent anti-Asian racism.
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Instructor, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, Carleton University
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Doctoral Student, Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Oxford
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Professor and Associate Chair Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University
