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Surge Seen in Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Since Start of Pandemic
American Journal of Criminal Justice.Previous research has shown that when viral outbreaks are deadly, fear often drives those at risk to place blame on external groups, such as minorities. In fact, throughout history, many individuals have associated particular diseases with groups of people; for example, Irish Catholics have been blamed for “Irish disease” (cholera), Jewish immigrants for “consumption” (tuberculosis), Irish and German immigrants for yellow fever, and Italians for polio.As for Asian-Americans, in 1900, when the bubonic plague began in San Francisco, public health officials quarantined Chinese residents in Chinatown but allowed white merchants to leave the area.COVID-19 originated in Wuhan, China.
