Revival of Yellow Peril: Investigating the Syndemic of Anti-Asian Racism and Public Health Threat for Asian American Health

Aggie Yellow Horse and Karen Leong's project "Revival of Yellow Peril: Investigating the Syndemic of Anti-Asian Racism and Public Health Threat for Asian American Health."

Racist and xenophobic hate against Asian Americans in the midst of the pandemic has been significant threats to Asian Americans’ health – stemming from a deeply rooted Yellow Peril ideology, which racializes Asians as a threat to United States and Western culture including re-imagining Asians as diseased public health threat. The project proposes to curate a transdisplinary anthology investigating the connections between the historically grounded Yellow Peril racist nativism and anti-Asian racism (#StopAAPIHate) during the COVID-19 pandemic, and investigate the compounding and exacerbating deleterious health effects on Asian American health. The project will also investigate the ways racism in science and technology reinforces racist nativism harming Asian American health without humanistic, cultural and political histories and methodologies.