Center for Social Innovation
The centuries-long history of anti-Asian racism and violence in the U.S.
The recent surge in anti-Asian racism and violence in the United States is the fruit of centuries of government policy.
Why it matters: One thread throughout American history is a “racialized notion of who is an insider, who’s an outsider, who is American and who is an unassimilable foreigner,” says Karthick Ramakrishnan, a University of California Riverside professor and founder of AAPI Data.
The bottom line: Ramakrishnan tells Axios the common thread from the 18th century to now “is this notion of the perpetual foreigner, that, ‘they’re never one of us.'”