COVID-19 and Asian Phobia: Anti-Asian Racism and Model Minority Myth

ABSTRACT

[...]it is essential to understand these events and phenomena and their historical roots to address them appropriately and effectively. [...]the governmental discourse further reinforced and fueled the anti-Asian sentiment in the United States during the Second World War (Thiesmeyer, 1995). Besides the deprivation of Asian Americans' political rights and freedom, their commercial activities were also restricted. While the U.S. Supreme Court finally defined the California Alien Land Laws as unconstitutional in 1952 in the case of Sei Fuji v. California after decades of struggling (Lyon, 2012), it took some states much longer to abolish similar Alien Land Laws. Using her own experiences as a former member of the Chinese international student community, she pointed out that Chinese international students were often lumped together with students from other countries and regions and were categorized as "nonresident aliens."