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Immunizing Against Hate: Overcoming Asian American and Pacific Islander Racism Lee Savio Beers, MD, FAAP,A Moira Szilagyi, MD, Phd, FAAP,B Warren M Immunizing Against Hate: Overcoming Asian American and Pacific Islander Racism Lee Savio Beers, MD, FAAP,a Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD, FAAP,b Warren M. Seigel, MD, MBA, FAAP,c Wendy S. Davis, MD, FAAP,d Yasuko Fukuda, MD, FAAP,e Madeline Joseph, MD, FAAP,f Joseph L. Wright, MD, MPH, FAAP,g Sara H. Goza, MD, FAAP,h AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, BOARD COMMITTEE ON EQUITY It has been more than a year since Immediate Past President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Sally Goza, MD, FAAP, warned against the threat severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) posed to children and families, including the harm coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)–fueled racism and xenophobia could cause the Asian American community. Sadly, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, racism and violent attacks on Asian Americans spread along with it. COVID-19–FUELED RACISM AND ATTACKS ON ASIAN AMERICANS Since March 2020, increases in racist rhetoric have coincided with increases in racist abuse, bullying, and attacks. According to Human Rights Watch,1 an organization that investigates abuses happening throughout the world, reports of discrimination and violence against Asians and people of Asian descent have surged both in the United States and worldwide. A new study of police department statistics2 aChildren’s National Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia; b c ’ University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; State from 16 of America s largest cities reveals that hate crimes against University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York; Asian Americans rose nearly 150% in 2020, despite overall hate crimes dUniversity of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont; ePacific Pediatrics, San f dropping by 7%. Francisco, California; University of Florida Health Science Center, Jacksonville, Florida; gUniversity of Maryland Schools of Medicine and h 3 Public Health, College Park, Maryland; and First Georgia Physicians Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition that tracks incidents of violence Group, Peachtree City, Georgia and harassment against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-051836 United States, reported nearly 3800 instances of discrimination against Address correspondence to Lee Savio Beers, MD, FAAP. E-mail: Asians between March 19, 2020, and February 28, 2021. Although [email protected] these reports may represent only a fraction of the hate incidents that PEDIATRICS (ISSN Numbers: Print, 0031-4005; Online, 1098-4275). occur, it is an indication of how vulnerable Asian Americans have Copyright © 2021 by the American Academy of Pediatrics become to racial attacks and discrimination. FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: The authors have indicated they have no financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose. Widespread media coverage of violence committed against elderly FUNDING: No external funding. Asian Americans in cities across the country is stirring up fear and a POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST: The authors have indicated they sense of increased vulnerability. These horrific, unprovoked attacks are have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose. not only heartbreaking to witness, they erode the sense of personal safety and well-being of the entire Asian American community. In addition, these hate crimes against the elderly are particularly devastating in light of the Asian American cultures influenced by values To cite: Beers L S, Szilagyi M, Seigel W M, et al; AAP Board of that promote positive views of aging and teach younger people to Directors Executive Committee, Board Committees on Equity. Immunizing Against Hate: Overcoming Asian American and respect, obey, and care for their elders. Our Asian American patients Pacific Islander Racism. Pediatrics. 2021;148(1):e2021051836 tell us that they are afraid to walk or ride the bus to school, go to Downloaded from www.aappublications.org/news by guest on September 26, 2021 PEDIATRICS Volume 148, number 1, July 2021:e2021051836 FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS church, or play outside, because targeted at communities that have science and epigenetic elucidation they, too, have been targets of been historically marginalized and of intergenerational transmission taunts and harassment. But even people who are least able to defend of historically experienced racism staying inside the home does not themselves. is evolving and supports these protect them. Many children say clinical observations.7,8 they have experienced RACISM AS A SOCIAL DETERMINANT OF cyberbullying or feel shunned and HEALTH anxious because of hateful, racist 5 PROTECTING AND PROMOTING MENTAL The 2019 AAP policy statement HEALTH language online. Their parents tell titled “The Impact of Racism on us that although they themselves Child and Adolescent Health” In a 2020 article in Pediatrics, Cheah 9 have previously experienced anti- declared racism “a social et al examined the rates of COVID- Asian racism in the United States, determinant of health that has a 19–related racism and racial never before have they felt so profound impact on the health discrimination experienced by unsafe. It is no longer a sense of status of children, adolescents, Chinese American parents and youth “ ” not belonging, it is a sense of emerging adults, and their families.” and the associations with their being on high alert. The alarming The policy states, “The social mental health. The authors found statistics and the trauma behind environment in which children are that nearly half of parents and youth them illustrate that America is raised shapes child and adolescent reported being directly targeted by again waging a battle against two development, and pediatricians are COVID-19 racial discrimination pandemics: COVID-19 and racism. poised to prevent and respond to online and that higher levels of environmental circumstances that perceived racism and racial HISTORY OF ANTI-ASIAN RACISM AND undermine child health.” This is one discrimination were associated with DISCRIMINATION IN of those times when we must step THE UNITED STATES poorer mental health. up to the plate. Unfortunately, the racialization of a For the past decade, rates of disease and the tendency to offer up In a 2020 article in the American suicide, depression, and anxiety Journal of Public Health “ scapegoats in times of crisis are not , Potential have been increasing for all new phenomena. People of Chinese Impact of COVID-19-Related Racial children and adolescents. Many descent were implicated in the 2003 Discrimination on the Health of factors unique to the pandemic are ”6 severe acute respiratory syndrome Asian Americans, Chen et al adding to the toll on children’s – (SARS) pandemic. Such warned that COVID-19 related emotional and behavioral health: stigmatization invoked widespread racial discrimination will exert isolation from friends, family, and harmful effects on Asian American fear and distrust and had damaging other community supports; health. They pointed to historical social and economic consequences emotional challenges, such as grief, precedent of the association for many Asian Americans. fear, and disappointment; parental between racial discrimination and stress; and economic hardship. In a 2020 commentary in Pediatrics, worsened psychological and Asian American youth are further Cheng and Conca-Cheng4 wrote physical health outcomes. affected by having to wrestle with about the long legacy of anti-Asian Examples included the findings Sinophobic discrimination, slurs, racism in the United States. They that Japanese Americans confined pointed to the Chinese Exclusion Act to internment camps during World and attacks, as well as the of 1882, which prevented Chinese War II experienced roughly double frightening reality that people from laborers from immigrating to the the rates of suicide and Black, Asian, and minority ethnic United States, the Immigration Act cardiovascular disease compared backgrounds are at greater risk of of 1924, which extended these with their noninterned becoming severely ill and more restrictions to other Asian counterparts later in life and that likely to die of COVID-19 if 10 immigrant groups, and President Arab and Muslim Americans had infected. Although we do not yet Franklin Roosevelt ordering forced greater psychological distress and have complete data on the relocation and internment of short- and long-term health pandemic’simpactonchildren’s 120 000 individuals of Japanese problems after the increase in mental health, evidence is ancestry during World War II. In Islamophobia, anti-Muslim emerging that suggests both the times of crisis and fear, the instinct rhetoric, and hate crimes that prevalence and severity of mental throughout history has been to find stemmed from the 9/11 terrorist health issues have worsened over someone to blame. Often, this is attacks. In addition, the basic the past year. Downloaded from www.aappublications.org/news by guest on September 26, 2021 2 FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS RENEWING THE CALL TO ACTION racism has been, and will continue Madeline Joseph, MD, FAAP AGAINST RACISM to be, at the forefront of our highest Joseph L. Wright, MD, MPH, FAAP We urge all pediatricians to priorities. refamiliarize themselves with the AAP policy statement “The Impact of AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ABBREVIATIONS Racism on Child and Adolescent BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE AAP: American Academy of Health,”5 to examine our own biases, COMMITTEE Pediatrics be prepared to discuss and counsel
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