One Nation Commission 2020 Report
AAPIs Rising to Fight Dual Pandemics
Covid-19 and Racism
The One Nation Commission Report II, edited by author and journalist Helen Zia, with contributions by Viet Nguyen and AAPI researchers, provides the facts, data, new research, curated stories, and imagery that prove and bring to life the impact on AAPIs of COVID-19 and the compounding effects of the simultaneous rise in anti-Asian hate.
The report lifts up Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voice, expertise, and experience, and shows our community’s strength and engagement in the immigrant rights fight.
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One Nation AAPIs Rising to Fight Dual Pandemics Report highlights:
AAPIs, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) bear a disproportionate burden of illness and death and together and separately have significant health disparities related to COVID-19.
Undertesting, racism, and a lack of disaggregated data have led to misunderstanding the impact of COVID-19 on the AAPI community.
A self-organized task force of renowned AAPI researchers have uncovered high rates of illness and death among the diverse AAPIs population.
AAPIs comprise a high proportion of U.S. frontline and essential workers, including in health care, elder care, high contact food, cleaning, and retail services.
AAPIs have been harmed by a lack of disaggregated data on the 30+ AAPI subgroups which include more than 100 languages.
New research of AAPIs, conducted in Alameda County, California, revealing low test rates and high rates of depression, anxiety, and isolation, related to the drastic and recent increase in anti-Asian hate.
58% of Asian American adults now say it is more common for people to express racist or racially insensitive views about Asian Americans than before the COVID-19 outbreak.
Youth were more likely to than adults to be harassed at school, at public parks, and online.
In 56% of these cases, perpetrators employ anti-Chinese hate speech, including blaming China and the Chinese as the source of the virus and mocking Chinese dietary habits.
Girls are 2.5 times more likely to report hate incidents than boys, slightly higher than the adult ratio.
Historical and continuing multiracial solidarity movements across Black and other communities are key to strengthening pan-Asian ties, and combatting anti-Asian racism, anti-Blackness, and systemic racism.
AAPIs registered voters have the potential to significantly influence the outcomes of upcoming national, state, and local elections. Studies of voters show that immigrants such as AAPIs, have the power to swing elections, move public opinion, and make the case to count on immigrants to influence decisions of consequence.
Immigrants make our workforce viable, enrich our economy, contribute taxes, create a thriving society, forge cultural richness, stimulate innovation and creativity, strengthen healthy family bonds and supports, and make America stronger.
Numerous facts and the human stories dispel the mistruths and mischaracterizations that abound about AAPIs. Contrary to the commonly held view that immigrants are a threat to American workers, immigrant workers complement the American workforce, contributing greatly to the economy.
AAPIs are advocating for fair and just immigration policies in the face of the past several years’ 400+ anti-immigrant rules and laws, including Public Charge and DACA.
Proof points and moral arguments show that we must all learn from the long history of United States anti-Asian racism and halt the systemic racism that harms our collective society.