Racism targeted at Asians and Asian Americans has grown since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. COVID-19, which originated in and devastated parts of China, has spread to new countries and the media, including CNN, The New York Times, the New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal, have documented the growing number of discriminatory incidents.
As quantitative social scientists, Ying Liu, a research scientist at USC’s Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR), and Brian Karl Finch, research professor of sociology and spatial sciences at USC, senior social demographer at CESR, and director of the USC Population Research Center. were interested in determining whether these were isolated incidents or just the tip of the iceberg.
Read the full article about their findings and further research about whether acts of racism related to the virus were restricted to Asian Americans or extended to other racial and ethnic groups that often bear the brunt of discriminatory treatment in America.