scholarly journals Fighting COVID-19: What’s in a Name?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Kun Pak ◽  
Aline Sandouk ◽  
Phuong Le
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
High Level

While the COVID-19 virus has infected over 3 million people in the United States of America, Asian Americans face unique unfair treatment due to COVID-19. In America, many anti-Asian incidents have been reported, and the FBI warns of increased hate crimes to Asian Americans due to COVID-19. Americans and high-level politicians use inappropriate names, such as “Chinese Virus,” for the COVID-19 virus, which fuels racism and xenophobia. In this Experience piece, we discuss the harm of referring to the COVID-19 virus based on the geographic location where it was first identified.

scholarly journals "Can you HEAR my FEAR?" A Korean immigrant with hearing loss reflects on surviving the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joo Young Hong
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Korean Immigrant

This paper presents the perception and associated experiences of a Korean hard-of-hearing immigrant special education researcher as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded. These experiences include the rise of hate crimes against Asian Americans; increasing evidence that face coverings are a vital public health tool; the knowledge that face coverings can increase the risk of racist violence; and difficulty communicating with people who are wearing most face coverings due to being hard-of-hearing. It provides supportive resources, strategies, and hope for educators, disability rights advocates, and families of individuals who are Deaf or hard-of-hearing, promoting public awareness and embrace of difference.

Questing for Justice on Twitter: Topic Modeling of #StopAsianHate Discourses in the Wake of Atlanta Shooting

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872110578
Author(s):  
Claire Seungeun Lee ◽  
Ahnlee Jang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Temporal Patterns ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Structural Topic Modeling

On March 16, 2021, a shooting in Atlanta killed eight people, six were women of Asian descent. This creates a new atmosphere online and offline to discuss hate crimes, racism, and violence against Asian Americans in the United States. The current research utilizes structural topic modeling and text mining to explore how the 2021 Atlanta shooting ignited debates and public discourse on the #StopAsianHate-related conversations on Twitter. The study analyzes the first 7 days of the shooting to explore the temporal patterns and emergent topics of Twitter discourses. Findings show that salient topics and temporal patterns differ from day to day, but topics such as “stand with AAPI community” and “stop racism” are prevalent throughout the 7-day period. This study discusses social media’s role in shaping and reporting public discourses, that is, how digital justice is exercised, and offers social and policy implications. There can be implications for social media’s role in shaping and reporting public discourses on social phenomena with digital justice.

scholarly journals The Roots of America’s Anti-Asian Violence

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (827) ◽  
pp. 246-249
Author(s):  
Annelise Heinz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Hate crimes against Asian Americans have risen sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic. A historical perspective shows that Asians have faced intertwined racial and gender-based biases in the United States since the first anti-immigration backlashes against their presence in the nineteenth century.

scholarly journals Evolution of Political and Security Relationship between the Republic of Poland and the United States of America in the years 1999–2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Kozlowski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Security Relations ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Security Relationship ◽  
High Level

AbstractThe article discusses the evolution of political and security cooperation between the Republic of Poland and the United States of America in the years 1999–2019. It argues that this relationship has been strengthened over the past several years to an unprecedented level, as reflected by the following: (a) permanent presence of US troops and facilities on the territory of the Republic of Poland; (b) significant reinforcement of energy cooperation that would contribute to the security of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region; (c) development of a high-level strategic dialogue; and (d) successful widening of the mutual scope of soft security collaboration, including economic, digital and people-to-people aspects. In this article, I try to answer the following questions: what are the reasons of upgrading Poland–US political and security relations? What was the process shaping US– Poland relationship during 1999–2019? What are the priorities for both sides in this cooperation? I suggest that the past 20 years of Polish–American relationship can be divided into three stages: (a) between Poland’s accession to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Russian aggression towards Ukraine (1999–2014); (b) between the NATO Summit in Newport and the swearing in of Donald Trump as President of the United States (2014–2017); and (c) then onwards (2017/2018–).

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