“It concerns me that a lot of educational institutions are under scrutiny by elected officials for talking frankly about racism in America. I’d like to see higher education continue to stand by scholars doing research in this area and the students insisting on course offerings related to subject.”
“This is not just a problem in big cities. It’s a rural problem; it’s a suburban problem; it’s a coastal problem; it’s a blue state and red state problem.”
“There’s a very long history of anti-Asian racism in the United States. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans have been particularly vulnerable”
“The horrific violence we saw in Atlanta in March 2021 made some people pay attention to this problem in a new way, I only wish they had paid attention to it earlier.”
We found that there are many forms of anti-Asian racism that took place as early as January 2020 all throughout the pandemic,” Borja says. “There is a lot of conversation in the current moment about hate crimes, but the reality is that Asian Americans experience a wide variety of forms of racism, and all of… Continue reading Examining a U of M report on anti-Asian hate incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic
“We imagine this project as not just counting incidents of anti-Asian racism, but collecting hundreds of stories that can help shape the public conversation,” said Melissa Borja, the project’s lead researcher and an assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies program.
“The racial rhetoric used against Chinese [people] is what’s made it okay to turn Asians into scapegoats. And when we looked at what leaders are using that rhetoric, out of 127 incidents of stigmatizing language and rhetoric, 95% of them were made or shared by White politicians, almost all of them Republican.”
“We are paying attention to forms of non-verbal harassment and verbal harassment, not just physical harassment and violence,” Borja said. “Research suggests, pretty compellingly, that it (stigmatizing rhetoric used by politicians) contributes to harm and racist backlash against Asian Americans.”
On ‘All Sides with Ann Fisher,’ Dr. Melissa May Borja and guests examine what the Atlanta shootings and other incidents of AAPI-targeted violence say about our society and how organizations are responding.
“Almost 70 percent of the incidents reported to Stop AAPI Hate were done so by women. Research from Virulent Hate, a project run by researchers at the University of Michigan to analyze how Asian-Americans have experienced racism during the pandemic, found a similar pattern when looking at incidents reported in the news media.”
“‘There’s a very deep history of very gendered, racist depictions of Asian American women’ — Dr. Melissa May Borja scholar explains why it’s impossible to separate anti-Asian hate from the March 16 Atlanta-area shootings that left 6 Asian women dead
“I would love for us to not just think about the most extreme version of racism or sexism—which is the murders that we saw this week—but also think about it on a continuum of racialized misogyny and anti-Asian hate that we’ve seen expressed in a variety of ways over the course of the pandemic.”
“After all the discrimination that Asians have experienced throughout U.S. history — the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the internment camps that forced Japanese Americans to leave their homes during World War II — it’s ‘shocking’ that so many Americans are still surprised by anti-Asian attacks, Borja said. She blames the ‘model minority’ myth.”
“Borja and a team of researchers have spent the past year compiling a list of more than 700 incidents of anti-Asian harassment reported in local news outlets in places as varied as Martinsville, Indiana, and Bayview, California.”
WILL, an Illinois Public Media NPR Station, interviews Dr. Melissa Borja and Catherine Shieh, an anti-hate training coordinator, about hateful incidents past and present.
April Baer, host of Michigan Radio’s Stateside, interviews Dr. Melissa May Borja about naming the violence – and the fear – Asian Americans are living with during the pandemic.
“Trump is by far the ‘main source of the rhetoric that stigmatizes Asian and Asian American people,’ Borja said during a press briefing, referring to both the frequency of his tweets and their reach and engagement.”
See Virulent Hate’s work featured on W. Kamau Bell’s show “United Shades of America.”
“It concerns me that a lot of educational institutions are under scrutiny by elected officials for talking frankly about racism in America. I’d like to see higher education continue to stand by scholars doing research in this area and the students insisting on course offerings related to subject.”
“This is not just a problem in big cities. It’s a rural problem; it’s a suburban problem; it’s a coastal problem; it’s a blue state and red state problem.”
“There’s a very long history of anti-Asian racism in the United States. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans have been particularly vulnerable”
“The horrific violence we saw in Atlanta in March 2021 made some people pay attention to this problem in a new way, I only wish they had paid attention to it earlier.”
Melissa Borja is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year, a recognition of women across the country who have made a significant impact.
Hard Knock Radio speaks with researcher Melissa May Borja, Ph.D. about the Virulent Hate Project in this two-part radio series.
We found that there are many forms of anti-Asian racism that took place as early as January 2020 all throughout the pandemic,” Borja says. “There is a lot of conversation in the current moment about hate crimes, but the reality is that Asian Americans experience a wide variety of forms of racism, and all of… Continue reading Examining a U of M report on anti-Asian hate incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic
“We imagine this project as not just counting incidents of anti-Asian racism, but collecting hundreds of stories that can help shape the public conversation,” said Melissa Borja, the project’s lead researcher and an assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies program.
“The racial rhetoric used against Chinese [people] is what’s made it okay to turn Asians into scapegoats. And when we looked at what leaders are using that rhetoric, out of 127 incidents of stigmatizing language and rhetoric, 95% of them were made or shared by White politicians, almost all of them Republican.”
“We are paying attention to forms of non-verbal harassment and verbal harassment, not just physical harassment and violence,” Borja said. “Research suggests, pretty compellingly, that it (stigmatizing rhetoric used by politicians) contributes to harm and racist backlash against Asian Americans.”
On ‘All Sides with Ann Fisher,’ Dr. Melissa May Borja and guests examine what the Atlanta shootings and other incidents of AAPI-targeted violence say about our society and how organizations are responding.
“Almost 70 percent of the incidents reported to Stop AAPI Hate were done so by women. Research from Virulent Hate, a project run by researchers at the University of Michigan to analyze how Asian-Americans have experienced racism during the pandemic, found a similar pattern when looking at incidents reported in the news media.”
“‘There’s a very deep history of very gendered, racist depictions of Asian American women’ — Dr. Melissa May Borja scholar explains why it’s impossible to separate anti-Asian hate from the March 16 Atlanta-area shootings that left 6 Asian women dead
“I would love for us to not just think about the most extreme version of racism or sexism—which is the murders that we saw this week—but also think about it on a continuum of racialized misogyny and anti-Asian hate that we’ve seen expressed in a variety of ways over the course of the pandemic.”
“We know Asian American women are particularly affected by the past year and the anti-Asian racism that we see associated with the pandemic. The impact is really important, and it’s been really striking to me last night and today how sad they are, how angry they are,” she said. “Earlier today I just got off… Continue reading Asian Women Are Hypersexualized, So Don’t Tell Me The Killings In Atlanta Aren’t About Race
“After all the discrimination that Asians have experienced throughout U.S. history — the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the internment camps that forced Japanese Americans to leave their homes during World War II — it’s ‘shocking’ that so many Americans are still surprised by anti-Asian attacks, Borja said. She blames the ‘model minority’ myth.”
“Borja and a team of researchers have spent the past year compiling a list of more than 700 incidents of anti-Asian harassment reported in local news outlets in places as varied as Martinsville, Indiana, and Bayview, California.”
WILL, an Illinois Public Media NPR Station, interviews Dr. Melissa Borja and Catherine Shieh, an anti-hate training coordinator, about hateful incidents past and present.
April Baer, host of Michigan Radio’s Stateside, interviews Dr. Melissa May Borja about naming the violence – and the fear – Asian Americans are living with during the pandemic.
“Trump is by far the ‘main source of the rhetoric that stigmatizes Asian and Asian American people,’ Borja said during a press briefing, referring to both the frequency of his tweets and their reach and engagement.”