Anti-Asian Racism: Articles and Databases

Xenophobia? Racism? 
Key Terms that are commonly used and how they differ:

• Racism assigns a certain race and/ or ethnic group to a position of power or superiority over others.
• Xenophobia describes attitudes, prejudices and behavior that reject and exclude others based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners.
• Sinophobia: Fear of or contempt for China, its people, or its culture.

The following search string and terms can assist in guiding research on the racism and xenophobia that has stemmed from the COVID-19 outbreak.
You can copy and paste the following search string into Google Scholar or any of our Library databases.

Search:   (coronavirus OR COVID-19 OR 2019-nCoV) AND (racism OR racist OR xenophobia)