Asian American mothers face a caregiving crisis, fueled by the pandemic but rooted in histories of anti-Asian discrimination and violence.
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The story of the alleged Atlanta shooter highlights the two most common ways Americans think about compulsive behaviors – considering them the results of temptation and treating them as diseases.
Gun violence as a whole is much more common, and much more deadly, than mass shootings are.
The media tends to render Asian Americans as either a ‘perpetual foreigner’ or ‘model minority’ – both stereotypes that have been levied in tandem against immigrants from Asia since the 1830s.
After mass shootings, politicians in Washington have failed to pass new gun control legislation, despite public pressure. But laws are being passed at the state level, largely to loosen restrictions.
Bias-motivated attacks became a distinct crime in the 1980s. But police investigate only a fraction of the roughly 200,000 hate crimes reported each year – and even fewer ever make it to court.
In trying to make sense of the recent mass killing in Georgia, it’s important to see that it was more than just violence against women and anti-Asian hate.
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Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Women's Studies, University of Florida
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Shirley Greenberg Chair of Women and the Legal Profession and Professor, Faculty of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State
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Director Asian & Asian American Studies Certificate, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Strategy, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago