Looking Hateworthy: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Chinese Phenotypicality and COVID-19-Related Prejudice and Discrimination

IF 2.1 3区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Race and Justice Pub Date : 2022-11-13 DOI:10.1177/21533687221138962

Samuel Choi, Kayla A. Burd, Alice Choi

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Abstract

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been an increasing number of hate crimes perpetrated against Chinese and non-Chinese Asian Americans. Some hate incidents suggest that Chinese Asian Americans have been mainly targeted followed by non-Chinese Asian Americans. The present study examined the influence of victim Chinese phenotypicality (CP) and participant individual differences on COVID-19-related prejudice and discrimination. Participants were presented with a mock news story detailing a restaurant employee (varying in CP) who tested positive for COVID-19 but went to work despite warnings to quarantine and allegedly spread COVID-19 to other employees and customers. CP was manipulated through photographs embedded within the mock news story of the employee (White (control) vs. Low CP vs. High CP). After reading the news story, participants completed measures of prejudice and discrimination endorsement along with measures of individual differences. Results revealed that CP influenced prejudice and support for discrimination, but only for individuals with certain characteristics (e.g., low income). The findings highlight individual difference characteristics among perpetrators of prejudice and discrimination against Asian Americans, in addition to phenotypic variations among those who may be victims of hate related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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审视仇恨——中国人表型与新冠肺炎相关偏见和歧视关系的调查

在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，针对华裔和非华裔亚裔美国人的仇恨犯罪越来越多。一些仇恨事件表明，华人亚裔美国人主要被针对，其次是非华裔亚裔美国人。本研究探讨了受害者中国表型(CP)和参与者个体差异对covid -19相关偏见和歧视的影响。参与者看到了一个模拟的新闻故事，详细描述了一名餐馆员工(CP不同)的COVID-19检测呈阳性，但不顾隔离警告去上班，并据称将COVID-19传播给了其他员工和顾客。CP是通过嵌入在员工的模拟新闻故事中的照片来操纵的(白人(对照)、低CP和高CP)。在阅读完新闻故事后，参与者完成了偏见和歧视背书以及个体差异的测量。结果显示，CP影响偏见和对歧视的支持，但仅对具有特定特征(如低收入)的个体有效。研究结果突出了对亚裔美国人施加偏见和歧视的人之间的个体差异特征，以及与COVID-19大流行相关的仇恨受害者之间的表型差异。

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期刊介绍： Race and Justice: An International Journal serves as a quarterly forum for the best scholarship on race, ethnicity, and justice. Of particular interest to the journal are policy-oriented papers that examine how race/ethnicity intersects with justice system outcomes across the globe. The journal is also open to research that aims to test or expand theoretical perspectives exploring the intersection of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and justice. The journal is open to scholarship from all disciplinary origins and methodological approaches (qualitative and/or quantitative).Topics of interest to Race and Justice include, but are not limited to, research that focuses on: Legislative enactments, Policing Race and Justice, Courts, Sentencing, Corrections (community-based, institutional, reentry concerns), Juvenile Justice, Drugs, Death penalty, Public opinion research, Hate crime, Colonialism, Victimology, Indigenous justice systems.