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Many Asian Americans live daily with the corrosive effects of racism and racialized violence, yet there's very little research funded on Asian American health.
Many Asian Americans live daily with the corrosive effects of racism and racialized violence, yet there s very little research funded on Asian American health.
This story is adapted from 'It Just Stays With You': The Corrosive Health Effects Of Decades Of Anti-Asian Violence, originally published with
, originally published with NPR member station WBUR.
Days after a man shot and killed six Asian women and two other people in Asian owned spas in the Atlanta area in March, Doris Chang sat with her 11-year-old son to learn who the victims were. The news held their faces and their names – Asian faces, Asian names just like his.
“My son looked at a picture and he said, ‘that looks like Ā-pó,’ which is my mother,” Chang says. “So, it was really, really hard not to personalize [the shootings] as something that could have happened to anybody in my family, anybody that I know.”