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cord-315428-uiezqa4p	Tessler, Hannah	The Anxiety of Being Asian American: Hate Crimes and Negative Biases During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2020-06-10		.txt	text/plain	4635	229	53	In this essay, we review how the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic that began in the United States in early 2020 has elevated the risks of Asian Americans to hate crimes and Asian American businesses to vandalism. These hate crimes and bias incidents occur in the landscape of American racism in which Asian Americans are seen as the embodiment of China and potential carriers of COVID-19, regardless of their ethnicity or generational status. In New York City alone, from the start of the COVID-19 outbreak through April 2020, the NYPD's hate crime task force has investigated fourteen cases where all the victims were Asian and targeted due to coronavirus discrimination (NYPD, 2020) . While there have been numerous instances of anti-Asian bias and crime, there have not been similarly patterned anti-European tourist incidents or an avoidance of Italian restaurants, suggesting that COVID-19 illuminates the particular racialization of disease that extends beyond this virus, and further back in American history.	./cache/cord-315428-uiezqa4p.txt	./txt/cord-315428-uiezqa4p.txt