The spread of COVID-19 has prompted a surge in racially-motivated acts of harassment and aggression against Asian-Americans, as anxiety regarding the pandemic spills over into xenophobia and prejudice.
According to the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council, a coalition of community organizations, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (API) were targeted in over 2,000 such incidents – ranging from verbal insults to social exclusion, intimidation, and violence – during an eight-week period as the Coronavirus took root across the United States.
Frequently, the bigotry tracked back to the notion that Wuhan, a city in central China, was the first location to...