![]() ![]() ![]() By contrast, anti-Black prejudice is built on extremely pernicious stereotypes about violence and criminality, used to justify centuries of violent subjugation of Black lives from slavery, to Jim Crow, to modern-day segregation and incarceration. Latinos have also faced similar acts of othering and exclusion, with the presumption that they are undocumented immigrants even though a majority are born in the United States. Asian American exclusion from American life is often built on the perception that they are “perpetual foreigners,” representing Asian countries no matter how many generations they have lived in the United States. The factors driving these incidents and wider range of experiences with racial discrimination captured by the survey, however, are likely distinct. The survey results show similar rates of reported experience with hate incidents among different communities of color in 2021. New survey data from a joint project of Survey Monkey and AAPI Data situates an uptick in discrimination reported by Asian Americans within the broader landscape of racism in the United States. The tragedy brought new attention to anti-Asian bias in the United States. The Asian American community has seen an outpouring of concern and support since March 16, 2021, when a White gunman opened fire on three local businesses in Atlanta, killing eight people, including 6 Asian American women. ![]() BY JANELLE WONG AND KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN ![]()
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