![]() ![]() Racial violence and oppression also victimized other Asian immigrants in the same period. Screenshot of the PBS documentary "Silent Sacrifice" Those restrictions persisted for more than six decades until the Magnuson Act repealed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943. The massacre was followed by the Page Act of 1875 and the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 to successively prohibit the entry of Chinese women and ban the immigration of Chinese laborers. In the following years, hostility and attacks from white settlers mounted continuously until the murdering of 19 Chinese residents by a mob in Los Angeles' Chinatown marked a climax of the anti-Asian fervor in 1871. Screenshot of the PBS documentary "The Chinese Exclusion Act" ![]() It was the first law in California to specifically target Chinese people. In the face of the rising anger among white laborers for the salary competition created by Chinese laborers, the “Anti-Coolie Act” was passed by the California legislature to impose taxes on Chinese miners in 1862. Both the country’s long history of racial oppression and its anti-China propaganda have carried a foreshadowing of the current spike of racism.īigotry against Asian immigrants began as soon as the first generation of Chinese workers set foot on American soil during the California gold rush in the 1850s. However, the current wave of hatred and violence against Asian Americans is far from exceptional. ![]() Spiking racism, said respondents, has become their primary stressor during the pandemic rather than the pandemic itself. According to statistics from Stop AAPI Hate, nearly 3,000 hate incidents against Asian Americans were reported in March alone, almost doubling that over the previous 11 months. While the slaying of six Asian women in Atlanta in March was the most tragic of those, racially motivated violence has been happening all the time, taking place in multiple forms and jeopardizing every age group of this community.Ī 2019 Pew report showed that about 76% of Asian Americans have personally experienced discrimination or been treated unfairly because of their race or ethnicity. The Asian community in the US has been in collective trauma following an alarming increase in racial discrimination and hate crimes against them. ![]()
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