One-Year Anniversary of Atlanta Shooting of Asian American Women Remembered in Workshops, Conferences
One-year after a mass shooting that targeted Asian women in Atlanta, the local community will be hosting a remembrance to honor the victims and rally support for anti-AAPI hate. A national conversation will be held at the Women of Color Conference March 10-12, 2022. A free workshop on history, gender, and law, Beyond Altanta, will be hosted by the Immigrant History Initiative and AHRI on March 15, 2022.
Asian Americans continue to confront violence and hate two years into the pandemic. The N.Y. Times covers the recent killings of GuiYang Ma, Michille Alyssa Go, and Christian Yuna Lee and the divergent opinions they stirred about crime control.
In their March 2021 paper, “Why the trope of Black-Asian conflict in the face of anti-Asian violence dismisses solidarity,” Jennifer Lee and Tiffany Huang, sociologists at Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, pointed out that since March 2020 there had been “over 3,000 self-reported incidents of anti-Asian violence from 47 states and the District of Columbia, ranging from stabbings and beatings, to verbal harassment and bullying, to being spit on and shunned.”
The 2018 Crime Victimization report issued in September 2019 by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in the Department of Justice found that 182,230 violent crimes were committed against Asian Americans in 2018. 27.5 percent were committed by African Americans, 24.1 percent by whites, 24.1 percent by Asian Americans, 7 percent by Hispanics and the rest undetermined. A New York City police report on 2021 hate crime arrestees and a San Francisco police report on 2021 hate crimes show distressing increases as well.
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