1-Month Report
4/23/20 – This report reviews 1,497 reports of coronavirus discrimination submitted on the Stop AAPI Hate from March 19-April 15, 2020.
The following patterns emerged over the course of one month:
- Stop AAPI Hate received 1,497 reports in its first four weeks.
- Incidents from California and New York constituted over 58% of all reports.
- Civil rights violations involving workplace discrimination and being barred from businesses and transportation or refused service made up almost 10% of all incident reports.
- 44% of incidents took place at private businesses.
- AAPI women were harassed 2.3 times more than AAPI men.
- 9% of respondents were AAPI seniors (over the age of 60).
- Reports came from 45 states across the nation and Washington DC.
- Even as shelter-in-place policies were implemented across much of the country and AAPIs interacted less with others, the rate of acts of racism remains alarming.
Click here to read the full report (PDF).
