#usvshate

Don't Let Racism Go Viral, 2020. 

Collaboration with Forward Together.

Although the use of face masks for a variety of reasons is common in many Asian countries, early U.S. coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic typically associated the image with contagion. My art reclaims the image in order to resist the dehumanization of Asians promoted by the current U.S. administration. My image reminds that in times of crisis, we can choose solidarity over scapegoating. In the current crisis, our survival depends on one another.

Also, tell Joe Biden to take down his racist campaign ad: https://medium.com/@aapiforce/open-letter-to-the-biden-campaign-on-unprepared-e372356f4eaa

Racial Trauma Jarryd Willis UCSD

While we are within the womb of these overwhelming moments, let us strive to ensure that morally productive outcomes are yet borne from the labors of our collective civic virtue.

The label "people of color" has pros & cons.  It is useful for reflecting a common experience of White racism among non-White groups. In this way, POC is inclusive due to the shared lack of an attribute: not being White.

However, POC obscures heterogeneity in the interpersonal & civic treatment of different minority groups. It implies a White Ceiling on measures of status. The White Ceiling Effect is why people are usually surprised to learn that Asian American incomes surpassed that of White Americans about 30 years ago. Only 2 groups within the PanEthnic label 'Asian American' (Vietnamese & Korean/South Korean) have median annual incomes lower than White Americans.

Moreover, a multiethnic investigation of the Police Officer's Dilemma found that police were faster to shoot someone Black with a gun than someone Hispanic, White, or Asian. Importantly, police were also faster to shoot someone Hispanic than someone White or Asian, and police were faster to shoot someone White than someone Asian.

This means that it's more than just an anti-Black motive at work. It suggests that the cultural saturation of race-specific stereotypes/ biases (aggression/violence regarding Blacks/Hispanics & femininity regarding Asian males) are at play. In addition, the White Ceiling Effect leads to people being surprised to learn that Asians outearn Whites, police are less likely to shoot an Asian male than a White male, & that Whites are less open to living among Black or Hispanic neighbors than Asian neighbors.

Thus, one of the most useful things that Black people & allies can do is to educate others on how America's racial hierarchy of Justice Preferences & racial hierarchy of Institutional Fairness Preferences adversely affects other minority groups. A pluralistic movement of various minority groups may be more successful than either individualistic or collectivistic movements.

This is why I had #AsianLivesMatter stories in Winter Quarter (and even when I lived in Texas) - because the anti-Asian rhetoric from the White House & other prominent figures was leading to a surge in racism against East Asian groups. Moreover, the model minority label results in a perceptual erasure of the difficulties that many Asian American students face, such as institutions being less likely to offer Asians the same financial support, less likely to offer access to social programs and opportunities that Black and Hispanic students may utilize, and corporations are less likely to promote Asian males into management (agentic) positions based on the stereotype of Asian men as feminine (communal) (Lee, 1994; Kang, 2001; Wong, 1998).

Throughout the #GeorgeFloyd protests, many Asian & Hispanic allies have been tweeting/posting with the tag #BlackLivesMatter on social media. One truism of social science is that superordinate groups (or diverse groups/ pluralistic groups) generally accomplish more than one group alone.

Lastly, please keep the protests peaceful. As indicated in the Figure below, violent protests likely helped Nixon win in 1968.