Being Asian American during the COVID-19 pandemic
Calling the US home as early as the 1700s, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) have faced, from the start, racism, discrimination, and hate crimes in a country that considers us invisible but visible only when hated. Mass lynchings of Chinese railroad workers in the 1800s, WWII internment of Japanese families, exclusionary acts and policies, caps on refugee and immigration numbers, regulations and processes to ensure inequality, repulsive stereotyping of AAPI in media and pop...