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Here are a few helpful resources focused on facts and on recognizing & addressing racism and microaggressions related to COVID-19. There is a rapidly growing body of literature on this emerging topic.
AMA Press Releases, May 4, 2020
By Andrea Sahouri and Suzanne Behnke, Des Moines Register, April 28, 2020
From Vox.com
Helpful infographic from UNLV's Student Diversity & Social Justice group separates myths and racist assumptions from facts.
From the Washington Post
From Human Rights Watch, May 12, 2020
"“We must act now to strengthen the immunity of our societies against the virus of hate.” – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, United Nations, May 8, 2020
By Bethany Ao, from Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper.
By Washington State Dept. of Health, Secretary of Health John Wiesman and Washington State Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs Executive Director Toshiko Hasegawa
From TheVerge.com; warning that this article reproduces some hate speech from Twitter and other online sites
While not focused on Coronavirus racism, here is a super helpful and easy-to-use tool for recognizing and interrupting / responding to microaggressions. From UCSC Academic Affairs; adapted from "Interrupting Microaggressions," by College of the Holy Cross, Diversity Leadership & Education.
From UC Riverside's Highlander News
From Time.com, by Jasmine Aguilera
This crowd-sourced "Yellow Peril Teach-In" Google doc bibliography is being compiled by librarians nationwide; read their guidelines and feel free to add your own citations, if you have helpful information to contribute.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Civil Rights Organizations on the Coronavirus: “Not a Green Light to Target Asian Americans and Asian immigrants with Racism and Hate”
On February 07, 2020, the The National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA) issued a statement regarding racism and COVID-19, which reads:
"While the coronavirus represents a legitimate public health concern, it is not a green light to target Asian Americans and Asian immigrants with racism and hate. We are concerned with the growing xenophobic rhetoric that harkens back to the dehumanizing, anti-Asian trope of the “yellow peril,” that was used during the 19th century. We have consistently stood against efforts to cast our community as “perpetual foreigners,” and sadly, we find ourselves having to do so again.
We call on news outlets and social media platforms to do more to curb racist and inaccurate content in addition to removing misinformation on the coronavirus alone.
National Director, Gregg Orton added: “Many Asian Americans are just as concerned as everyone else about the coronavirus--even more so considering how in some cases, our extended families could be impacted. But to let someone’s health status be a measure of how American they are is absurd. Mass hysteria will not help, and neither will bigotry. Be better than that.”
More details can be found at: NCAPA Statement on Coronavirus Racism
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This Libguide began with the main categories and many of the resources from of the amazing Simmons University Libguide (referenced above), and has grown to include sources from our WMU colleagues, as well as colleges, universities, associations and NGOs from across the globe. It is a work in progress with news, resources and links to actionable information.