{"id":8756,"date":"2020-04-21T21:49:44","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/21\/covid-19-and-asian-americans\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:32:55","slug":"covid-19-and-asian-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/covid-19-and-asian-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism: The other virus sweeping America during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a commentary published in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/opinion\/commentary\/ct-opinion-coronavirus-asian-americans-morita-20200420-ep3bmn3tincczfihw3qvl64boa-story.html\">Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/strong>, author Julie Morita writes about the surge in negative speech directed toward Asian Americans on Twitter in the wake of COVID-19. Morita cites an analysis of nearly one million tweets from November 2019 to March 2020 &#8211; a study undertaken by a team including Shaniece Criss, a Furman University health sciences professor. She and other researchers found negative speech toward Asian Americans increased by 70 percent, while negative speech aimed at other racial minorities decreased 4 percent over the same time period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a commentary published in the Chicago Tribune, author Julie Morita writes about the surge in negative speech directed toward Asian Americans on Twitter in the wake of COVID-19. Morita [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-health-sciences","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}