![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “This is really how crime is framed in the United States - it’s framed as the source is Black,” Wong said. ![]() “But the racist kind of tropes that come along with it - especially that it’s predominantly Black people attacking Asian Americans who are elderly - there’s not really an empirical basis in that.” Wong told NBC Asian Americathat “the way that the media is covering and the way that people are understanding anti-Asian hate at this moment, in some ways, draws attention to these long-standing anti-Asian biases in U.S. Janelle Wong, a professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, released analysis last week, based on official crime statistics and other studies, showing more than three-quarters of offenders of anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents, previous to and during the pandemic, have been white. Despite social media-generated impressions that anti-Asian violence is committed mostly by Blacks, the majority of attackers are white, according to a new analysis. ![]()
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