How Educators Can Respond To Anti-Asian Racism: ONLINE EXCLUSIVE

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How educators can respond to anti-Asian racism: ONLINE EXCLUSIVE

By Tomoko Wakabayashi, Gabrielle Lai, Tzu-Fen Chang and Sunah Hyun

June 2021

James is excited to go back to school after months of remote learning due to COVID-19. After his father drops him off at school the first morning, he notices other classmates approaching. One of them yells, “Can you go home? Actually, go back to where you came from! Are you trying to kill us again?” He looks around, wondering who they’re talking to. Then he notices that he is the only Asian American in the vicinity. Other students are watching, but no one steps in to help. Since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in March 2020 in the United States, Asian American and Pacific Islander children have faced increased levels of racial discrimination like the incident described above (Wakabayashi et al., 2020). Emerging empirical research documents

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