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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In terms of job seekers … a lot of our clients used to be working in the hospitality industry, in the hotels. And I think a lot of them were hoping to have the hotels reopened once the vaccine was available. But as of right now, hotel reopenings are not going on as quickly as we would like them to be, probably due to the delta variant. So we still have a lot of clients [who were] working in the hotel industry waiting for the hotels to come up. But at this point in time, they’re just looking for any custodian jobs that are available out there, those who are ready to go to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we do still sense a lot of [clients] not reaching out to us to help them apply for a job, because I don’t think that they feel safe to go out to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When you say they don’t feel safe, are you talking about concerns about the surge in AAPI hate crimes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, that’s been a lot of the concerns, as in they want to make sure that they are able to walk home from the bus stop … without being attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have also heard through the chats that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11885947/survey-most-sf-families-living-in-chinatown-communal-housing-dont-want-their-kids-back-in-school\">parents still don’t feel safe for their kids to go to school\u003c/a>. So that could be the other reason why they are also not going back to work, because they have to keep the kids at school or they are on the waiting list for after-school care, so somebody needs to be at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of kids are under the age of 12, so they’re not vaccinated and they live in SROs, single-family, those affordable buildings, in residential units. That was another concern for them, that they don’t want their kids to be sick or to have it spread to their neighbors living in the same building.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of parents who live in communal housing in San Francisco are organizing with a singular message: Keep our kids out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/\">The Chinatown Community Development Center\u003c/a>, which owns and operates communal housing in the city, measured that fear directly: Of 294 families living in such housing who answered a recent survey, representing roughly 400 SFUSD students, 70% oppose in-person learning for their kids, and only 30% are in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those families surveyed lived in Chinatown, and many identify as Chinese or Chinese American, said the Chinatown CDC. The organization surveyed its tenants who have at least one child under 18 living in their household, by phone the week before SFUSD's fall semester started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who support in-person learning largely said they were worried about unemployment benefits expiring in September, and need to send their children back to school so the adults can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, those who oppose bringing their kids back to school are especially concerned that children under 12 are not yet vaccinated, and are worried that schools aren’t providing enough ventilation. They also voiced concern over COVID transmission on public transit and asked whether school buses could help mitigate that concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the opposition to in-person learning, many of these families don't have much of a choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new data comes after more than a year of public drumbeating to reopen schools during the pandemic voiced by the city’s most vocal parents — with “decrease the distance!” becoming their signature rallying cry — leading into the San Francisco Unified School District opening its doors to kids in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just one week before that fateful day, on Aug. 10, a swarm of equally furious parents stormed SFUSD’s monthly (virtual) meeting. Their request? The exact opposite the public had heard for months. These parents wanted their kids to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 of them — mostly Chinese and Chinese American — signed a petition asking SFUSD to offer more options for their kids to safely evade the increasingly spreading delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are concerned that the start of in-person learning in Fall will lead to greater infection rates, not only in the children themselves, but also for vulnerable family members,” their letter read. “We do not wish to force distance learning upon everyone, but believe it is imperative to provide it to those families who need it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883330\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11883330 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut.jpeg\" alt='Protest sign saying \"I want school! Full time. I miss my friends\" in foreground of crowd before City Hall. 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(Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That effort comes as no surprise to Jen Chan, resident services manager at the Chinatown CDC, who works with families who live in the organization's single-room occupancy housing, many of whom are Chinese and Chinese American. She says living conditions may be one reason those families would prefer to keep their kids at home, especially in single-room occupancy housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SROs are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866033/i-dont-care-if-the-state-says-we-cant-sf-officials-say-city-should-vaccinate-at-risk-sro-residents\">communal spaces where families often live in a single room, sharing kitchens and bathrooms with tenants on the same floor\u003c/a> — families who may be especially concerned about being unable to quarantine should the worst happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a lot of fear,” Chan said. And that fear may be particular to the Chinese community due to hard-lived experience, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our families were immigrants, right? They have heard of the outbreaks of SARS, the outbreak of COVID in their home countries in Hong Kong and in China. And they understand and have been impacted by people getting sick in their family. Deaths in their family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notion that scores of parents want their kids to stay at home may be a surprise to those reading news headlines for the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local news has for months \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-teachers-share-demands-for-returning-to-15927867.php\">amplified the voices of more organized groups like Decreasing the Distance.\u003c/a> Some of those more amplified voices are calling for schools to reopen sooner rather than later, and are even recalling San Francisco school board members based on the idea that they single-handedly kept kids home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their message has largely dominated the conversation about schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it came time to finally let kids back in classrooms, the 450 online spots for distance learning provided by the district were quickly gobbled up. The school district has admitted 700 students who applied by July 30 to be in their online learning program, said SFUSD spokesperson Laura Dudnick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that isn’t the sum total of the students wanting to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To accommodate that growing number, SFUSD opened its applications for one of two independent learning programs with a deadline of Aug. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Dudnick added, “we strongly encourage students who are able to participate in in-person learning to do so, as it is the best option for the vast majority of students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the number of families who want distance learning may be far higher than the official ones known to SFUSD. Chan told KQED some who desire distance learning haven’t applied for fear of losing priority in their desired schools, and many think distance learning isn’t even an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s one they’d take if they had the chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushing for more open spots, local parents and parents of kids in SRO hotels are organizing for their own interests, demanding more distance learning options. KQED has seen screenshots of their group discussions on WeChat — the social media platform of choice for many in the Chinese community — with more than 800 people clamoring for distance learning options. [aside tag=\"education,remote-learning\" label=\"More Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a second letter, sent Aug. 24, the families laid out their requests: rapid testing available for students of SRO families, SFUSD staff who can be point people to work with SRO families to ensure safety precautions are catered to their specific situations, more choices in remote learning, more language access for school emails to parents and, most of all, more input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All decisions must be made with SRO families, by them, and resolutions of their concerns,\" the letter reads. \"Families demand to be engaged so that they can provide meaningful input and direct policies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Education President Gabriela López says she's working on a resolution with fellow board members to call on the district to address the SRO families' specific asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been hearing from and connecting with many families in order to address these serious concerns,\" López said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD Board of Education commissioner Jenny Lam also has been meeting with these SRO families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been hearing from families for many months as we've been planning the full return,\" Lam said. \"The timing is, while we were returning to in-person [learning], the delta variant was also surging through the city and throughout the state. We are seeing that stabilization now of the delta variant and the positive cases, but certainly empathize and understand the concerns from families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lam characterized these concerns as a recent development, the desire to maintain distance learning has been bubbling up for months, Chan from Chinatown CDC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as far back as April, Lang Xie, another Chinatown SRO resident, shared similar concerns with KQED — even before the delta variant reared its head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xie lives in an SRO with her husband and 10-year-old daughter, Vicky, who attends Gordon J. Lau Elementary School. Both Xie and her husband are fully vaccinated but said they feel uncomfortable sending Vicky back to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my opinion, it is still kind of concerning. Even though we are vaccinated, the risk of being infected is still there. If there is nothing important, we would avoid going outside as much as possible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like others who live in SRO hotels, sharing a single room means they have no space to quarantine from one another, a concern Xie shares, despite some city resources open to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of those fears, Vicky learned from home during the spring semester, only returning to Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in the fall — but only because the family felt they had no other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicky was far from alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of roughly 750 students at Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, only 13 returned during the first week of school last April when in-person learning started again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is more than 80% Asian, and many students are Chinese, with the school sitting squarely in Chinatown, right along Stockton Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD, then, had long seen signs that many Chinese families weren’t ready to return to school, even before the delta variant rose. And San Francisco isn’t unique in that regard. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Surveys have shown this for months\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Multiple surveys conducted during the pandemic have shown a stark divide in who wants to return to in-person learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the pandemic, no matter what level of response was given, the ratios were often the same: White families overwhelmingly want to return to school, and Black and Latino families often want to return, but by a far slimmer majority than White families. But Asian families, and Chinese families in particular, are often far less likely to wish to return to in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> the latest month available, just 27% of Asian families of fourth graders nationally were enrolled in in-person instruction, versus 66% of white families, \u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/schoolsurvey/\">according to a survey by the Institute of Education Sciences\u003c/a>. The institute is the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to that same survey, a whopping 51% of Asian families preferred to learn remotely, compared to just 14% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closer to home, in an Oakland Unified School District survey circulated in March, 44% of Asian families were ready to return to in-person learning, the smallest number of any ethnic group. And in one December survey conducted by SFUSD, only 36% of Asian families said they’re returning to in-person learning, versus 80% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People living in SRO buildings — like the tenants highlighted by the Chinatown Community Development Center’s survey — feel particularly vulnerable to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything’s communal [in an SRO],\" Chan said. “It’s a big worry that other units are going to spread [COVID] to them and vice versa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866067\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866067 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1.jpg\" alt=\"Long, spare, clean hallway with older Chinese residents standing in their doorways\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-800x654.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-1020x834.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-1536x1256.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of single-room occupancy hotels fear they have little ability to quarantine due to living in close quarters, with shared bathrooms and kitchens. Seen here, residents of an SRO building on Clayton Street in San Francisco pose for a photo in May 2020. (Photo courtesy Chinatown Community Development Center) \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Chinatown Community Development Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To date, 1,397 people living in SROs have tested positive for COVID-19, spread across 269 SRO buildings, with 26 deaths as a result of the virus, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-single-room-occupancies-sros\">according to the city's COVID-19 dashboard\u003c/a>. By April, roughly 412 people from SROs had stayed in city-provided quarantine sites. The statistics are no longer publicly posted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, San Francisco does provide hotel rooms for people living in SROs without their own space to separate when sick. But health professionals don’t always recommend those rooms as an option for SRO residents, and residents don’t always know of their existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one such tightly packed SRO building, Jun Chang Tan lives in a single room with his wife, 15-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. He lived on unemployment for most of the summer, after his wife lost her job at a salon that closed during the pandemic and he lost hours at his job as a custodian, a job he only regained a few months ago. During the pandemic, his kids have largely learned from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan said in April that he didn’t want his children returning to school yet. He says he can’t be sure they’re safe from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city prioritized SRO residents for the vaccine, and Tan and his wife eagerly got their shots. But with no space to quarantine, Tan didn’t want his kids to risk becoming infected at school, and he especially fears the vaccine will not protect against new variants of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though you are vaccinated, there is still a risk,” Tan says. “If they come in contact with COVID at school and bring it back home, then I do not have enough room because we live in a small apartment.” [aside tag=\"covid-19,coronavirus\" label=\"more COVID-19 coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED asked Commissioner Lam if, were she speaking directly to Tan, she would say that sending his children back to school is safe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say yes, it is,\" Lam said. \"I would encourage Mr. Tan that absolutely we have the proper protocols and guidelines in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam is a parent herself, with two SFUSD high schoolers already returning to school. Lam said for learning's sake — and emotional well-being — learning in person is the best option for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the fall semester, Tan did let his daughter return to school because, he said, he has no feasible choice, and because SFUSD had too few slots for distance learning. He also thinks SFUSD has too high of a requirement to prove your kid can be kept out of school — namely, one of two programs available asks kids who are “medically fragile” to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tan finally let his daughter return to Yick Wo Elementary for the fall semester, however, they got a phone call on the third day: Class would be canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A kid in his daughter’s class tested positive for COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been 71 reported positive cases in pre-K through fifth grade elementary schools in SFUSD, and 16 reported positive cases in pre-K through eighth grade schools, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resources/health-and-safety-guidelines/when-someone-gets-sick/covid-19-testing-dashboard\">according to SFUSD's COVID dashboard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Community-minded solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back at Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in April, Principal Gloria Choy sat near a sobbing child dressed in a Spider-Man costume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the families who were fearful to return during that spring semester, and to more broadly return, weren’t just afraid of COVID, but of the violence against the Asian community, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885993\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11885993 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Principal Gloria Choy at Gordon Lau Elementary School in San Francisco's Chinatown on April 21, 2021. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Choy’s school families was attacked riding a Muni bus from Market Street to pick up a free Wi-Fi hot spot from Gordon J. Lau in March. “This person was eyeing them the whole time. And when she got on the bus, the person yanked her backpack and her purse,” Choy said. The would-be thief got frustrated when bystanders tried to help. He “got upset, and just punched her in the face. So my [school] parents, they’re afraid,” Choy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And families fear that violence may continue even as the pandemic subsides and children return to school in droves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 50% of SFUSD elementary school families traditionally commute by car, 25% walk, 10% take public transit and 10% take yellow school buses, according to district data. But Choy’s school has a much higher proportion of kids busing from outside the neighborhood. About half of Gordon J. Lau families live on the other side of the city, Choy says. They all take Muni in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate’s most recent national count saw 9,081 hate incidents reported to the organization from March 19, 2020, through June 2021. Of those hate incidents, 10% were reported by kids age 17 and younger. This number likely undercounts the rate of hate incidents against kids, the organization says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign conducted in the summer of 2020 found that 77% of AAPI youth surveyed were angry over anti-Asian hate in the U.S., with 60% expressing disappointment over racism, and 30% of AAPI youth expressing fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/reports/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a> also released a report on racism’s effects on Asian youth, alongside a long list of recommendations for policymakers and school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them: asking school officials to denounce hate, integrating ethnic studies and anti-racism curricula into coursework, establishing anonymous reporting systems for bullying, holding trainings with teachers and faculty on anti-Asian hate and discrimination, and boosting multilingual outreach to parents and families with culturally responsive mental health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a few of these recommendations are already underway: In March the San Francisco Board of Education made ethnic studies a graduation requirement, and they have disseminated an extensive and ever-growing document to educators with resources on emotionally processing and combating hate against the AAPI community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vincent Matthews, SFUSD’s superintendent, addressed that fear back in a March school board meeting, and has done so repeatedly since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has brought a lot of pain and suffering for many, and with it conspiracy theories scapegoating the Asian community for the COVID-19 pandemic,” Matthews said in March. “We have to stand together against violence perpetrated against any member of our community, and right now there is an increase in violence against our Asian brothers and sisters. It is unacceptable and we must recommit ourselves to creating safe communities for each and every person. Your child’s physical and emotional safety is our priority whether we are in distance learning or in person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFUnified/status/1379494112919838722\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Lam also said she attended a town hall for monolingual Chinese families just in August, where she and her colleagues did their best to hear the concerns of families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the district has held Cantonese-language town halls, Lai Wa Wu, a policy director from the Chinese Progressive Association, said it felt like the community was being talked to, not with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not so much giving them more information, it's about shifting, creating spaces for there to be real long-term dialogue,” she said. “And that includes resourcing these spaces and taking these spaces seriously, where you give information to the community to help them make more informed decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing that concern, Lam said she's making an effort to get more staff to bridge the gap with the SRO community, and the monolingual Chinese community. She's hoping to arrange a meeting between their representatives and Superintendent Matthews soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're living through a pandemic that we have not lived through before in over a century. So certainly there are a lot of unknowns and certainty how we live through this together, and we are calling upon our institutions to be able to serve its people,\" Lam said. \"And so I take that responsibility wholeheartedly. Are there things that the district needs to do better? Of course, we always need to be doing better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Principal Choy, the solutions need not be grandiose. Even the simple act of providing yellow school buses for kids to avoid attacks on public transit would be a huge help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other solutions may require even more legwork. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bringing kids back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to one of the only 13 students to return to Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in April: Amy Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On her first day back in the spring, Amy was more than ready for school: She dressed in her warm kitty-cat sweater and carried her pink backpack on her shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce — Amy’s mother — and Amy's story shows something unique, Principal Choy says: trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce was relieved when Amy returned to school in the spring. She volunteers at a local YMCA doing relief work with families hit hard by the pandemic and can take work meetings with more ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am always happy to find the time to do volunteer work and help out the community. Because we are from a low-income family, my abilities are limited and I am only able to help to a certain extent,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while Amy returned to school before hundreds of her peers, the Lee family also has an advantage many of her classmates don’t: She lives in the same neighborhood as her school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staple of San Francisco’s historic Chinatown since 1952, the Ping Yuen affordable housing project on Pacific Avenue is home to more than 400 people. That includes Amy and Joyce. And on that particular Wednesday \u003cstrong>i\u003c/strong>n April, the second day of school, she practically dragged her mom out the door with excitement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy knows where her classmates are this year: “They’re at Zoom,” she told KQED, as if Zoom were a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885950\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11885950 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyce Lee and her daughter Amy check in with Gordon Lau Elementary School staff in San Francisco on April 21, 2021. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we all walked together to Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, Joyce talked about the advantages of having Amy back in school, especially helpful as COVID ravages the finances of many families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fewer child-watching duties, Joyce may be able to find additional work to supplement their income. Her husband lost his restaurant job during the pandemic, and they have two other children: a toddler, and a teenager attending Galileo Academy of Science and Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel safe allowing my children to return to school because the COVID-19 pandemic in the city has already reduced to a lower risk, the vaccine is available now, and the school district and school have held a meeting with parents about returning to campus,” Lee said during the spring semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that trust hasn’t come easily to the rest of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think some of our Chinese community are still afraid of getting even their shots of vaccines,” Choy says. “I think they have to trust that the vaccine is going to work. I think they have to also trust that our school is going to keep them safe. They're going to have to trust that, you know, when they get on the bus to come to school” they’ll be safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That trust is tenuous. That trust takes time to earn. It takes more than just a translated flyer or a town hall from a school district — it takes resources, effort and genuine back-and-forth conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to assure the safety of the community during the fall semester, that trust needs to come soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some interviews for this story were conducted in Cantonese with the help of a community translator, recorded and later translated for publication. Translations were conducted for KQED by Sophie Liang.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds of parents who live in communal housing in San Francisco are organizing with a singular message: Keep our kids out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/\">The Chinatown Community Development Center\u003c/a>, which owns and operates communal housing in the city, measured that fear directly: Of 294 families living in such housing who answered a recent survey, representing roughly 400 SFUSD students, 70% oppose in-person learning for their kids, and only 30% are in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those families surveyed lived in Chinatown, and many identify as Chinese or Chinese American, said the Chinatown CDC. The organization surveyed its tenants who have at least one child under 18 living in their household, by phone the week before SFUSD's fall semester started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who support in-person learning largely said they were worried about unemployment benefits expiring in September, and need to send their children back to school so the adults can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, those who oppose bringing their kids back to school are especially concerned that children under 12 are not yet vaccinated, and are worried that schools aren’t providing enough ventilation. They also voiced concern over COVID transmission on public transit and asked whether school buses could help mitigate that concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the opposition to in-person learning, many of these families don't have much of a choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new data comes after more than a year of public drumbeating to reopen schools during the pandemic voiced by the city’s most vocal parents — with “decrease the distance!” becoming their signature rallying cry — leading into the San Francisco Unified School District opening its doors to kids in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just one week before that fateful day, on Aug. 10, a swarm of equally furious parents stormed SFUSD’s monthly (virtual) meeting. Their request? The exact opposite the public had heard for months. These parents wanted their kids to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 of them — mostly Chinese and Chinese American — signed a petition asking SFUSD to offer more options for their kids to safely evade the increasingly spreading delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are concerned that the start of in-person learning in Fall will lead to greater infection rates, not only in the children themselves, but also for vulnerable family members,” their letter read. “We do not wish to force distance learning upon everyone, but believe it is imperative to provide it to those families who need it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883330\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11883330 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut.jpeg\" alt='Protest sign saying \"I want school! Full time. I miss my friends\" in foreground of crowd before City Hall. Protestors in yellow T-shirts, Mayor Breed at podium in background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-1536x1022.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks during a rally to reopen San Francisco public schools on March 13, 2021, the one-year anniversary of school buildings being closed. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That effort comes as no surprise to Jen Chan, resident services manager at the Chinatown CDC, who works with families who live in the organization's single-room occupancy housing, many of whom are Chinese and Chinese American. She says living conditions may be one reason those families would prefer to keep their kids at home, especially in single-room occupancy housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SROs are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866033/i-dont-care-if-the-state-says-we-cant-sf-officials-say-city-should-vaccinate-at-risk-sro-residents\">communal spaces where families often live in a single room, sharing kitchens and bathrooms with tenants on the same floor\u003c/a> — families who may be especially concerned about being unable to quarantine should the worst happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a lot of fear,” Chan said. And that fear may be particular to the Chinese community due to hard-lived experience, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our families were immigrants, right? They have heard of the outbreaks of SARS, the outbreak of COVID in their home countries in Hong Kong and in China. And they understand and have been impacted by people getting sick in their family. Deaths in their family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notion that scores of parents want their kids to stay at home may be a surprise to those reading news headlines for the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local news has for months \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-teachers-share-demands-for-returning-to-15927867.php\">amplified the voices of more organized groups like Decreasing the Distance.\u003c/a> Some of those more amplified voices are calling for schools to reopen sooner rather than later, and are even recalling San Francisco school board members based on the idea that they single-handedly kept kids home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their message has largely dominated the conversation about schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it came time to finally let kids back in classrooms, the 450 online spots for distance learning provided by the district were quickly gobbled up. The school district has admitted 700 students who applied by July 30 to be in their online learning program, said SFUSD spokesperson Laura Dudnick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that isn’t the sum total of the students wanting to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To accommodate that growing number, SFUSD opened its applications for one of two independent learning programs with a deadline of Aug. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Dudnick added, “we strongly encourage students who are able to participate in in-person learning to do so, as it is the best option for the vast majority of students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the number of families who want distance learning may be far higher than the official ones known to SFUSD. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a second letter, sent Aug. 24, the families laid out their requests: rapid testing available for students of SRO families, SFUSD staff who can be point people to work with SRO families to ensure safety precautions are catered to their specific situations, more choices in remote learning, more language access for school emails to parents and, most of all, more input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All decisions must be made with SRO families, by them, and resolutions of their concerns,\" the letter reads. \"Families demand to be engaged so that they can provide meaningful input and direct policies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Education President Gabriela López says she's working on a resolution with fellow board members to call on the district to address the SRO families' specific asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been hearing from and connecting with many families in order to address these serious concerns,\" López said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD Board of Education commissioner Jenny Lam also has been meeting with these SRO families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been hearing from families for many months as we've been planning the full return,\" Lam said. \"The timing is, while we were returning to in-person [learning], the delta variant was also surging through the city and throughout the state. We are seeing that stabilization now of the delta variant and the positive cases, but certainly empathize and understand the concerns from families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lam characterized these concerns as a recent development, the desire to maintain distance learning has been bubbling up for months, Chan from Chinatown CDC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as far back as April, Lang Xie, another Chinatown SRO resident, shared similar concerns with KQED — even before the delta variant reared its head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xie lives in an SRO with her husband and 10-year-old daughter, Vicky, who attends Gordon J. Lau Elementary School. Both Xie and her husband are fully vaccinated but said they feel uncomfortable sending Vicky back to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my opinion, it is still kind of concerning. Even though we are vaccinated, the risk of being infected is still there. If there is nothing important, we would avoid going outside as much as possible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like others who live in SRO hotels, sharing a single room means they have no space to quarantine from one another, a concern Xie shares, despite some city resources open to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of those fears, Vicky learned from home during the spring semester, only returning to Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in the fall — but only because the family felt they had no other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicky was far from alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of roughly 750 students at Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, only 13 returned during the first week of school last April when in-person learning started again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is more than 80% Asian, and many students are Chinese, with the school sitting squarely in Chinatown, right along Stockton Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD, then, had long seen signs that many Chinese families weren’t ready to return to school, even before the delta variant rose. And San Francisco isn’t unique in that regard. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Surveys have shown this for months\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Multiple surveys conducted during the pandemic have shown a stark divide in who wants to return to in-person learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the pandemic, no matter what level of response was given, the ratios were often the same: White families overwhelmingly want to return to school, and Black and Latino families often want to return, but by a far slimmer majority than White families. But Asian families, and Chinese families in particular, are often far less likely to wish to return to in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> the latest month available, just 27% of Asian families of fourth graders nationally were enrolled in in-person instruction, versus 66% of white families, \u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/schoolsurvey/\">according to a survey by the Institute of Education Sciences\u003c/a>. The institute is the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to that same survey, a whopping 51% of Asian families preferred to learn remotely, compared to just 14% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closer to home, in an Oakland Unified School District survey circulated in March, 44% of Asian families were ready to return to in-person learning, the smallest number of any ethnic group. And in one December survey conducted by SFUSD, only 36% of Asian families said they’re returning to in-person learning, versus 80% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People living in SRO buildings — like the tenants highlighted by the Chinatown Community Development Center’s survey — feel particularly vulnerable to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything’s communal [in an SRO],\" Chan said. “It’s a big worry that other units are going to spread [COVID] to them and vice versa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866067\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866067 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1.jpg\" alt=\"Long, spare, clean hallway with older Chinese residents standing in their doorways\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-800x654.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-1020x834.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-1536x1256.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of single-room occupancy hotels fear they have little ability to quarantine due to living in close quarters, with shared bathrooms and kitchens. Seen here, residents of an SRO building on Clayton Street in San Francisco pose for a photo in May 2020. (Photo courtesy Chinatown Community Development Center) \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Chinatown Community Development Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To date, 1,397 people living in SROs have tested positive for COVID-19, spread across 269 SRO buildings, with 26 deaths as a result of the virus, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-single-room-occupancies-sros\">according to the city's COVID-19 dashboard\u003c/a>. By April, roughly 412 people from SROs had stayed in city-provided quarantine sites. The statistics are no longer publicly posted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, San Francisco does provide hotel rooms for people living in SROs without their own space to separate when sick. But health professionals don’t always recommend those rooms as an option for SRO residents, and residents don’t always know of their existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one such tightly packed SRO building, Jun Chang Tan lives in a single room with his wife, 15-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. He lived on unemployment for most of the summer, after his wife lost her job at a salon that closed during the pandemic and he lost hours at his job as a custodian, a job he only regained a few months ago. During the pandemic, his kids have largely learned from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan said in April that he didn’t want his children returning to school yet. He says he can’t be sure they’re safe from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city prioritized SRO residents for the vaccine, and Tan and his wife eagerly got their shots. But with no space to quarantine, Tan didn’t want his kids to risk becoming infected at school, and he especially fears the vaccine will not protect against new variants of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though you are vaccinated, there is still a risk,” Tan says. “If they come in contact with COVID at school and bring it back home, then I do not have enough room because we live in a small apartment.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED asked Commissioner Lam if, were she speaking directly to Tan, she would say that sending his children back to school is safe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say yes, it is,\" Lam said. \"I would encourage Mr. Tan that absolutely we have the proper protocols and guidelines in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam is a parent herself, with two SFUSD high schoolers already returning to school. Lam said for learning's sake — and emotional well-being — learning in person is the best option for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the fall semester, Tan did let his daughter return to school because, he said, he has no feasible choice, and because SFUSD had too few slots for distance learning. He also thinks SFUSD has too high of a requirement to prove your kid can be kept out of school — namely, one of two programs available asks kids who are “medically fragile” to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tan finally let his daughter return to Yick Wo Elementary for the fall semester, however, they got a phone call on the third day: Class would be canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A kid in his daughter’s class tested positive for COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been 71 reported positive cases in pre-K through fifth grade elementary schools in SFUSD, and 16 reported positive cases in pre-K through eighth grade schools, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resources/health-and-safety-guidelines/when-someone-gets-sick/covid-19-testing-dashboard\">according to SFUSD's COVID dashboard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Community-minded solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back at Gordon J. 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(Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Choy’s school families was attacked riding a Muni bus from Market Street to pick up a free Wi-Fi hot spot from Gordon J. Lau in March. “This person was eyeing them the whole time. And when she got on the bus, the person yanked her backpack and her purse,” Choy said. The would-be thief got frustrated when bystanders tried to help. He “got upset, and just punched her in the face. So my [school] parents, they’re afraid,” Choy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And families fear that violence may continue even as the pandemic subsides and children return to school in droves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 50% of SFUSD elementary school families traditionally commute by car, 25% walk, 10% take public transit and 10% take yellow school buses, according to district data. But Choy’s school has a much higher proportion of kids busing from outside the neighborhood. About half of Gordon J. Lau families live on the other side of the city, Choy says. They all take Muni in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate’s most recent national count saw 9,081 hate incidents reported to the organization from March 19, 2020, through June 2021. Of those hate incidents, 10% were reported by kids age 17 and younger. This number likely undercounts the rate of hate incidents against kids, the organization says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign conducted in the summer of 2020 found that 77% of AAPI youth surveyed were angry over anti-Asian hate in the U.S., with 60% expressing disappointment over racism, and 30% of AAPI youth expressing fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/reports/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a> also released a report on racism’s effects on Asian youth, alongside a long list of recommendations for policymakers and school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them: asking school officials to denounce hate, integrating ethnic studies and anti-racism curricula into coursework, establishing anonymous reporting systems for bullying, holding trainings with teachers and faculty on anti-Asian hate and discrimination, and boosting multilingual outreach to parents and families with culturally responsive mental health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a few of these recommendations are already underway: In March the San Francisco Board of Education made ethnic studies a graduation requirement, and they have disseminated an extensive and ever-growing document to educators with resources on emotionally processing and combating hate against the AAPI community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vincent Matthews, SFUSD’s superintendent, addressed that fear back in a March school board meeting, and has done so repeatedly since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has brought a lot of pain and suffering for many, and with it conspiracy theories scapegoating the Asian community for the COVID-19 pandemic,” Matthews said in March. “We have to stand together against violence perpetrated against any member of our community, and right now there is an increase in violence against our Asian brothers and sisters. It is unacceptable and we must recommit ourselves to creating safe communities for each and every person. Your child’s physical and emotional safety is our priority whether we are in distance learning or in person.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bringing kids back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to one of the only 13 students to return to Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in April: Amy Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On her first day back in the spring, Amy was more than ready for school: She dressed in her warm kitty-cat sweater and carried her pink backpack on her shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce — Amy’s mother — and Amy's story shows something unique, Principal Choy says: trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce was relieved when Amy returned to school in the spring. She volunteers at a local YMCA doing relief work with families hit hard by the pandemic and can take work meetings with more ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am always happy to find the time to do volunteer work and help out the community. Because we are from a low-income family, my abilities are limited and I am only able to help to a certain extent,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while Amy returned to school before hundreds of her peers, the Lee family also has an advantage many of her classmates don’t: She lives in the same neighborhood as her school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staple of San Francisco’s historic Chinatown since 1952, the Ping Yuen affordable housing project on Pacific Avenue is home to more than 400 people. That includes Amy and Joyce. And on that particular Wednesday \u003cstrong>i\u003c/strong>n April, the second day of school, she practically dragged her mom out the door with excitement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy knows where her classmates are this year: “They’re at Zoom,” she told KQED, as if Zoom were a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885950\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11885950 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyce Lee and her daughter Amy check in with Gordon Lau Elementary School staff in San Francisco on April 21, 2021. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we all walked together to Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, Joyce talked about the advantages of having Amy back in school, especially helpful as COVID ravages the finances of many families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fewer child-watching duties, Joyce may be able to find additional work to supplement their income. Her husband lost his restaurant job during the pandemic, and they have two other children: a toddler, and a teenager attending Galileo Academy of Science and Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel safe allowing my children to return to school because the COVID-19 pandemic in the city has already reduced to a lower risk, the vaccine is available now, and the school district and school have held a meeting with parents about returning to campus,” Lee said during the spring semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that trust hasn’t come easily to the rest of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think some of our Chinese community are still afraid of getting even their shots of vaccines,” Choy says. “I think they have to trust that the vaccine is going to work. I think they have to also trust that our school is going to keep them safe. They're going to have to trust that, you know, when they get on the bus to come to school” they’ll be safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That trust is tenuous. That trust takes time to earn. It takes more than just a translated flyer or a town hall from a school district — it takes resources, effort and genuine back-and-forth conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to assure the safety of the community during the fall semester, that trust needs to come soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some interviews for this story were conducted in Cantonese with the help of a community translator, recorded and later translated for publication. Translations were conducted for KQED by Sophie Liang.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On the West Coast, you can find Chinatowns from Seattle to San Diego. The Bay Area is home to two of the oldest Chinatowns, in San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose also has a rich history of Chinatowns — there have been \u003cem>five\u003c/em> Chinatowns in its history. So, why doesn’t San Jose have a Chinatown today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story starts in the 1850s, when the Gold Rush drew thousands of people to California, including Chinese immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many of those Chinese immigrants who came were working class,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/cas/ethnic-studies/faculty--staff/james-s-lai/\">James Lai\u003c/a>, a professor of ethnic studies at Santa Clara University. “They came for the same reason why they still come this very day: for economic opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they arrived in California, the immigrants realized it was far from the dream of “Gold Mountain.” Some attempted mining for gold, but many others found work building the transcontinental railroad. Companies would pay for room, board and transportation, but the contracts for these jobs were short-term. When they ended, many of those men were left to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had to continue on,” Lai said. “They had to find work in different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some went to San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://immigrationtounitedstates.org/426-chinese-laundries.html&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500851000&usg=AOvVaw1TmGNgd_eDe4NC3K-7Ep0B\">opened laundromats\u003c/a> and other businesses, while others built levees throughout the\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25154414?seq%3D1&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500851000&usg=AOvVaw2ewXH_hfMFQjboyWdEBfmJ\"> Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://books.google.com/books?id%3DQ3LT1Exiv2YC%26pg%3DPP43%26lpg%3DPP43%26dq%3DChinese%2Bimmigrants%2Bpicking%2Borchards%2Bsanta%2Bclara%2Bvalley%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3DmE1gJBaRRG%26sig%3DACfU3U3QhADwH3bvD5wIkKIatKHM6ueACw%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26ved%3D2ahUKEwjmxpHNm6LwAhXMJDQIHWHzD50Q6AEwCXoECA0QAw%23v%3Donepage%26q%3DChinese%2520immigrants%2520picking%2520orchards%2520santa%2520clara%2520valley%26f%3Dfalse&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500853000&usg=AOvVaw3GAPGVWoz63O4kmfFhF4lF\"> picked orchards in the Santa Clara Valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Chinese immigrants first arrived, they expected to do hard labor, make their earnings and return home to their families. A lot of Chinese men came over, leaving women and children behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ratio was roughly 26-to-1 Chinese American men to women, at this point,” Lai said. “They never achieved the wealth that they hoped they would achieve to be able to return back to their village and retire or help their families. So they stayed and they endured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The First Chinatowns in San Jose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Alien_land_laws/\">Racist policies\u003c/a> kept Chinese immigrants from owning property and white people didn’t want them in their neighborhoods. So, they built their own communities. In San Jose, it began with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chinese_in_San_Jose_and_the_Santa_Clara/Q1iXsBTZTPYC?hl%3Den%26gbpv%3D1%26dq%3Dfirst%2Bmarket%2Bstreet%2Bchinatown%2Bsan%2Bjose%26pg%3DPA10%26printsec%3Dfrontcover&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500849000&usg=AOvVaw2cs3gxlaMLOeoNemjY7cB9\">First Market Street Chinatown\u003c/a>, which was built in 1866, but burned down a few years later in 1870. The community rebuilt a few blocks away and became known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chinese_in_San_Jose_and_the_Santa_Clara/Q1iXsBTZTPYC?hl%3Den%26gbpv%3D1%26dq%3Dfirst%2Bmarket%2Bstreet%2Bchinatown%2Bsan%2Bjose%26pg%3DPA10%26printsec%3Dfrontcover&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500850000&usg=AOvVaw08mjb_Uf57Oo197CxGFX73\">Vine Street Chinatown. \u003c/a>It too burned down in 1872.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878185\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-82-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"The First Market Street Chinatown in San Jose was built in 1866. In this photo, the towers of McKenzie Iron Foundry, the San Jose Brewery and San Jose waterworks is visible in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-82-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-82-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-82-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-82.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The First Market Street Chinatown in San Jose was built in 1866. In this photo, the towers of McKenzie Iron Foundry, the San Jose Brewery and San Jose waterworks are visible in the background. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of History San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the moment Chinese immigrants started coming to America, they faced racism and violence. White residents wanted to send a message that they weren’t welcome and used arson to terrorize and destroy Chinese communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chinese immigrants kept rebuilding. Lai explains there wasn’t another option. “It was just simply to continue to try to plant your roots and the only way you could do it was through these kinds of Chinatowns,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the community was growing fast. In 1872, the Second Market Street Chinatown was built in downtown San Jose, where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Bay-Area-San-Jose-Chinatown-history-arson-16194117.php\">Fairmont Hotel is located today\u003c/a>. More than 1,400 people lived there, a far bigger population than the previous Chinatowns. There were shops, three restaurants, a theater and a temple. The people who lived in this Chinatown worked in factories, which manufactured cigars, shoes, clothing and furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Second Market Street Chinatown\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://hiddenhistoriesjtown.org/personnel/connie-young-yu/\">Connie Young Yu\u003c/a> is a local South Bay historian whose ancestry traces back to this Chinatown. Her grandfather’s uncle was already living in San Jose and would travel back to China and tell family about the wonders of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-670-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"A rooftop view of San Jose's Second Market Street Chinatown. This Chinatown was much larger than any other Chinatown which came before it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-670-800x604.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-670-1020x770.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-670-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-670.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rooftop view of San Jose’s Second Market Street Chinatown. This Chinatown was much larger than any other Chinatown which came before it. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of History San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[My grandfather’s] uncle was telling him about this beautiful area where you can work hard and there were good wages in Gum San,” Yu said. “America was called Gum San: Gold Mountain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu’s grandfather, Young Soong Quong, arrived in 1881 to the Second Market Street Chinatown when he was 11 years old. He stocked shelves and cleaned floors in his uncle’s shop, where many laborers came to eat, play cards and send money back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, a white family hired him as a houseboy, a job which required him to leave Chinatown. It was there where he experienced racial violence for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he would go back to the Market Street Chinatown, he’d have to run really fast because white kids would be throwing rocks at him,” Yu said. “This was a vivid memory he passed down to us kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Anti-Chinese Movement in San Jose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://anthropology.stanford.edu/people/barbara-voss\">Barbara Voss\u003c/a>, a historical archeologist at Stanford, is not surprised Young faced racial violence in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The anti-Chinese movement had been building throughout the western United States for about 20 years at this point,” Voss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1880s, an angry mob burned San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/10/15/san-jose-pastor-helps-first-united-methodist-rise-from-the-ashes/\">First Methodist Episcopal Church\u003c/a> down when they learned the church did missionary work for Chinese immigrants and held a Sunday school service for Chinese children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had already enacted legislation that targeted Chinese immigrants, including the \u003ca href=\"https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1714#:~:text=In%201850%2C%20the%20California%20legislature,not%20forced%20to%20pay%20it.\">Foreign Miner’s License of 1848\u003c/a> which required miners who were not citizens to pay $20 a month for the right to mine in California. Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationhistory.org/item/page-act/\">Page Act of 1875\u003c/a>, which prohibited women, particularly Chinese women from immigrating to the country for “immoral purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1882, Congress passed the nation’s most restrictive immigration bill: \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/chinese-exclusion-act-1882\">The Chinese Exclusion Act\u003c/a>. It prohibited all Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States and prevented those that were here from becoming citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These anti-Chinese laws passed at the federal and state level set the stage for San Jose to host the first statewide \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a%3Dd%26d%3DDAC18860205.2.86%26e%3D-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500843000&usg=AOvVaw0ji7eOUGpKp43IKpKoAD8d\">Anti-Chinese Convention in 1886\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were motivational speakers who were arguing racist slogans; arguing that the Chinese must go; making arguments about why white people are superior to Chinese people; making arguments about what they perceived to be the negative impact of Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans on the economy of San Jose,” Voss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voss finds it eerie how similar some of the arguments made back then are to the anti-immigration arguments of today. The rally was well attended and was held just a few blocks away from the Second Market Street Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Anti-Chinese movement in San Jose was as much about local boosterism as it was about racism,” Voss explained. “The leaders of this movement found that they could not promote San Jose as a place for business development and settlement if the Chinatown remained in downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Chinatown Must Go”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A year after the convention, the San Jose Mercury News featured \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a%3Dd%26d%3DSJMN18861207.2.22%26srpos%3D53%26e%3D-------en--20-SJMN-41--txt-txIN-chinatown%252c%2BCharles%2BBreyfogle-------1&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500844000&usg=AOvVaw3pVhMLKpkDQd7Gm6lhZCS3\">front page testimony\u003c/a> from city leaders including the fire and police chiefs, the street commissioner and the mayor with one message: Chinatown must go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was of their opinion that the general condition of the locality in a sanitary point of view could not be worse and in an aesthetic or moral sense, it was revolting,” the testimony read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Charles Breyfogle and the City Council voted unanimously to get rid of the Second Market Street Chinatown. But before any official action was taken, the Chinatown was burned down. That made it the third Chinatown in San Jose to succumb to arson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-1683-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"The Second Market Street Chinatown burned down in an arson fire in 1887. There were no recorded casualties, but the entire Chinese community in San Jose was displaced.\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-1683-800x591.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-1683-1020x754.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-1683-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-1683.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Second Market Street Chinatown burned down in an arson fire in 1887. There were no recorded casualties, but the entire Chinese community in San Jose was displaced. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of History San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were no recorded casualties, but homes and businesses were destroyed and the community was displaced again. There was another small Chinatown in San Jose called the Woolen Mills Chinatown around the same time. The property was owned by the San Jose Woolen Manufacturing Company and provided to workers as a living accommodation. But that Chinatown was too small to accommodate the much larger population of the Second Market Street Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the fire, Chinese residents had already started moving out of San Jose. After the fire, even more left. “There are anecdotal accounts from descendants that people started considering whether or not to move back to China,” Voss said. “Some folks moved to more rural areas where they were out of the public eye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connie Young Yu’s grandfather was among the immigrants who left for San Francisco. He didn’t return for a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Rise of Heinlenville\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The community would rebuild with the help of another immigrant named John Heinlen. He moved with his wife and children from Ohio to farm in California. Yu said \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/group/marketstreet/cgi-bin/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/SJ_Chinatown_Heritagefair.pdf\">Heinlen’s family faced anti-German discrimination in the Midwest\u003c/a> and when he came to California, he saw Chinese immigrants facing discrimination and sympathized with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a friend to the Chinese,” she said. “He had hired Chinese before [and] leased land to the Chinese in his other holdings in Fresno.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months after the fire, news broke that Heinlen had leased some of his land to Chinese residents who lost their homes and land. He was going to build a new Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was such an uproar among the citizens,” Yu said. “They said ‘Down with John Heinlen, he’s a traitor to his people\u003cstrong>.'”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite death threats, Heinlen finished construction of the new Chinatown in 1887, just months after the fire that destroyed the last Chinatown. Angry locals called the new Chinatown “Heinlenville,” and the name stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They couldn’t drive out Chinatown,” Yu said. “Chinatown was there to stay and John Heinlen, to protect the Chinese, he built an eight-foot-high fence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878188\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/2005-32-4-800x507.jpg\" alt='A flag bearing the Chinese words \"Ng Shing Gung\" Temple of Five Gods, leads a procession outside the gates of Heinlenville. Residents of the Chinatown celebrated festivals with firecrackers and sparklers.' width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/2005-32-4-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/2005-32-4-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/2005-32-4-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/2005-32-4.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flag bearing the Chinese words “Ng Shing Gung” Temple of Five Gods, leads a procession outside the gates of Heinlenville. Residents of the Chinatown celebrated festivals with firecrackers and sparklers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of History of San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fence had a gate which was locked every night, while foot patrols provided security. Eventually, Young Soong Quong, Connie Young Yu’s grandfather, became a partner at one of the shops in Heinlenville and was able to settle in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Heinlen gave him a chance for a new life in San Jose. He was a merchant and he was able to send for his wife in China,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had been separated for 14 years. Yu’s grandmother arrived in California in 1910 and they had their first son, Ming Young. Two years later, Yu’s father, John, was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heinlenville became a thriving community with 2,000 residents. Newspaper accounts said the\u003ca href=\"https://content.scu.edu/digital/collection/svhocdm/id/293/\"> Ng Shing Gung Temple\u003c/a>, a two story structure, was the center of the community. The upper floor housed an intricately carved and gilded altar with five deities. The lower floor was used as a town hall and as a Chinese school for the children who grew up in Heinlenville.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Jose’s Last Chinatown\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Heinlenville was San Jose’s longest established Chinatown,\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://books.google.com/books?id%3DQ1iXsBTZTPYC%26pg%3DPA10%26lpg%3DPA10%26dq%3Dheinlenville%2Bsan%2Bjose%2Blongest%2Bestablished%2Bchinatown%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3DIsm4WsmPWC%26sig%3DACfU3U15sWrVzpU4f4fX92YJ76wXULY88A%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26ved%3D2ahUKEwi5ipuBt6LwAhW2CTQIHUuiAjwQ6AEwDHoECBIQAw%23v%3Donepage%26q%3Dheinlenville%2520san%2520jose%2520longest%2520established%2520chinatown%26f%3Dfalse&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500848000&usg=AOvVaw3K2QL4it8fVfFJBq6zxuf1\"> lasting for 44 years\u003c/a>, until 1931.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the Chinese Exclusion Act was in place for many years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=http://chcp.org/heinlenville-chinatown/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500855000&usg=AOvVaw2g2_VaK7gzwnF7-g8QP3N3\">immigration from China slowly dwindled\u003c/a>. And many men weren’t as fortunate as Young Soong Quong, who could bring his wife to join him in America. Their families were still in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The workers were getting kind of old and there were no new laborers coming in to work in the fields,” Yu said. Soon, there weren’t enough people left in Chinatown \u003ca href=\"https://chcp.org/Heinlenville-Chinatown/\">to keep it alive\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Great Depression took a toll on the Heinlen estate, which owned the land the Chinatown stood on. In 1931, the estate went bankrupt and Heinlenville became city property. All the buildings were eventually demolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connie Young Yu has been working with the city to build a park where the last Chinatown once stood, not far from San Jose’s Japantown. The park will commemorate John Heinlen’s contributions to the city and highlight the history of San Jose’s Chinese community. It will be called Heinlenville Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On the West Coast, you can find Chinatowns from Seattle to San Diego. The Bay Area is home to two of the oldest Chinatowns, in San Francisco and Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose also has a rich history of Chinatowns — there have been \u003cem>five\u003c/em> Chinatowns in its history. So, why doesn’t San Jose have a Chinatown today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story starts in the 1850s, when the Gold Rush drew thousands of people to California, including Chinese immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So many of those Chinese immigrants who came were working class,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/cas/ethnic-studies/faculty--staff/james-s-lai/\">James Lai\u003c/a>, a professor of ethnic studies at Santa Clara University. “They came for the same reason why they still come this very day: for economic opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they arrived in California, the immigrants realized it was far from the dream of “Gold Mountain.” Some attempted mining for gold, but many others found work building the transcontinental railroad. Companies would pay for room, board and transportation, but the contracts for these jobs were short-term. When they ended, many of those men were left to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had to continue on,” Lai said. “They had to find work in different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some went to San Francisco and \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://immigrationtounitedstates.org/426-chinese-laundries.html&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500851000&usg=AOvVaw1TmGNgd_eDe4NC3K-7Ep0B\">opened laundromats\u003c/a> and other businesses, while others built levees throughout the\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25154414?seq%3D1&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500851000&usg=AOvVaw2ewXH_hfMFQjboyWdEBfmJ\"> Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://books.google.com/books?id%3DQ3LT1Exiv2YC%26pg%3DPP43%26lpg%3DPP43%26dq%3DChinese%2Bimmigrants%2Bpicking%2Borchards%2Bsanta%2Bclara%2Bvalley%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3DmE1gJBaRRG%26sig%3DACfU3U3QhADwH3bvD5wIkKIatKHM6ueACw%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26ved%3D2ahUKEwjmxpHNm6LwAhXMJDQIHWHzD50Q6AEwCXoECA0QAw%23v%3Donepage%26q%3DChinese%2520immigrants%2520picking%2520orchards%2520santa%2520clara%2520valley%26f%3Dfalse&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500853000&usg=AOvVaw3GAPGVWoz63O4kmfFhF4lF\"> picked orchards in the Santa Clara Valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Chinese immigrants first arrived, they expected to do hard labor, make their earnings and return home to their families. A lot of Chinese men came over, leaving women and children behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ratio was roughly 26-to-1 Chinese American men to women, at this point,” Lai said. “They never achieved the wealth that they hoped they would achieve to be able to return back to their village and retire or help their families. So they stayed and they endured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The First Chinatowns in San Jose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Alien_land_laws/\">Racist policies\u003c/a> kept Chinese immigrants from owning property and white people didn’t want them in their neighborhoods. So, they built their own communities. In San Jose, it began with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chinese_in_San_Jose_and_the_Santa_Clara/Q1iXsBTZTPYC?hl%3Den%26gbpv%3D1%26dq%3Dfirst%2Bmarket%2Bstreet%2Bchinatown%2Bsan%2Bjose%26pg%3DPA10%26printsec%3Dfrontcover&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500849000&usg=AOvVaw2cs3gxlaMLOeoNemjY7cB9\">First Market Street Chinatown\u003c/a>, which was built in 1866, but burned down a few years later in 1870. The community rebuilt a few blocks away and became known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chinese_in_San_Jose_and_the_Santa_Clara/Q1iXsBTZTPYC?hl%3Den%26gbpv%3D1%26dq%3Dfirst%2Bmarket%2Bstreet%2Bchinatown%2Bsan%2Bjose%26pg%3DPA10%26printsec%3Dfrontcover&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500850000&usg=AOvVaw08mjb_Uf57Oo197CxGFX73\">Vine Street Chinatown. \u003c/a>It too burned down in 1872.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878185\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878185\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-82-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"The First Market Street Chinatown in San Jose was built in 1866. In this photo, the towers of McKenzie Iron Foundry, the San Jose Brewery and San Jose waterworks is visible in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-82-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-82-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-82-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-82.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The First Market Street Chinatown in San Jose was built in 1866. In this photo, the towers of McKenzie Iron Foundry, the San Jose Brewery and San Jose waterworks are visible in the background. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of History San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the moment Chinese immigrants started coming to America, they faced racism and violence. White residents wanted to send a message that they weren’t welcome and used arson to terrorize and destroy Chinese communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Chinese immigrants kept rebuilding. Lai explains there wasn’t another option. “It was just simply to continue to try to plant your roots and the only way you could do it was through these kinds of Chinatowns,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the community was growing fast. In 1872, the Second Market Street Chinatown was built in downtown San Jose, where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Bay-Area-San-Jose-Chinatown-history-arson-16194117.php\">Fairmont Hotel is located today\u003c/a>. More than 1,400 people lived there, a far bigger population than the previous Chinatowns. There were shops, three restaurants, a theater and a temple. The people who lived in this Chinatown worked in factories, which manufactured cigars, shoes, clothing and furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Second Market Street Chinatown\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://hiddenhistoriesjtown.org/personnel/connie-young-yu/\">Connie Young Yu\u003c/a> is a local South Bay historian whose ancestry traces back to this Chinatown. Her grandfather’s uncle was already living in San Jose and would travel back to China and tell family about the wonders of America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878186\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878186\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-670-800x604.jpg\" alt=\"A rooftop view of San Jose's Second Market Street Chinatown. This Chinatown was much larger than any other Chinatown which came before it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-670-800x604.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-670-1020x770.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-670-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-670.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rooftop view of San Jose’s Second Market Street Chinatown. This Chinatown was much larger than any other Chinatown which came before it. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of History San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[My grandfather’s] uncle was telling him about this beautiful area where you can work hard and there were good wages in Gum San,” Yu said. “America was called Gum San: Gold Mountain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yu’s grandfather, Young Soong Quong, arrived in 1881 to the Second Market Street Chinatown when he was 11 years old. He stocked shelves and cleaned floors in his uncle’s shop, where many laborers came to eat, play cards and send money back home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, a white family hired him as a houseboy, a job which required him to leave Chinatown. It was there where he experienced racial violence for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he would go back to the Market Street Chinatown, he’d have to run really fast because white kids would be throwing rocks at him,” Yu said. “This was a vivid memory he passed down to us kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Anti-Chinese Movement in San Jose\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://anthropology.stanford.edu/people/barbara-voss\">Barbara Voss\u003c/a>, a historical archeologist at Stanford, is not surprised Young faced racial violence in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The anti-Chinese movement had been building throughout the western United States for about 20 years at this point,” Voss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1880s, an angry mob burned San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/10/15/san-jose-pastor-helps-first-united-methodist-rise-from-the-ashes/\">First Methodist Episcopal Church\u003c/a> down when they learned the church did missionary work for Chinese immigrants and held a Sunday school service for Chinese children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California had already enacted legislation that targeted Chinese immigrants, including the \u003ca href=\"https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1714#:~:text=In%201850%2C%20the%20California%20legislature,not%20forced%20to%20pay%20it.\">Foreign Miner’s License of 1848\u003c/a> which required miners who were not citizens to pay $20 a month for the right to mine in California. Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationhistory.org/item/page-act/\">Page Act of 1875\u003c/a>, which prohibited women, particularly Chinese women from immigrating to the country for “immoral purposes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1882, Congress passed the nation’s most restrictive immigration bill: \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/chinese-exclusion-act-1882\">The Chinese Exclusion Act\u003c/a>. It prohibited all Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States and prevented those that were here from becoming citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These anti-Chinese laws passed at the federal and state level set the stage for San Jose to host the first statewide \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a%3Dd%26d%3DDAC18860205.2.86%26e%3D-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500843000&usg=AOvVaw0ji7eOUGpKp43IKpKoAD8d\">Anti-Chinese Convention in 1886\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were motivational speakers who were arguing racist slogans; arguing that the Chinese must go; making arguments about why white people are superior to Chinese people; making arguments about what they perceived to be the negative impact of Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans on the economy of San Jose,” Voss said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voss finds it eerie how similar some of the arguments made back then are to the anti-immigration arguments of today. The rally was well attended and was held just a few blocks away from the Second Market Street Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Anti-Chinese movement in San Jose was as much about local boosterism as it was about racism,” Voss explained. “The leaders of this movement found that they could not promote San Jose as a place for business development and settlement if the Chinatown remained in downtown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“Chinatown Must Go”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A year after the convention, the San Jose Mercury News featured \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a%3Dd%26d%3DSJMN18861207.2.22%26srpos%3D53%26e%3D-------en--20-SJMN-41--txt-txIN-chinatown%252c%2BCharles%2BBreyfogle-------1&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500844000&usg=AOvVaw3pVhMLKpkDQd7Gm6lhZCS3\">front page testimony\u003c/a> from city leaders including the fire and police chiefs, the street commissioner and the mayor with one message: Chinatown must go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was of their opinion that the general condition of the locality in a sanitary point of view could not be worse and in an aesthetic or moral sense, it was revolting,” the testimony read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Charles Breyfogle and the City Council voted unanimously to get rid of the Second Market Street Chinatown. But before any official action was taken, the Chinatown was burned down. That made it the third Chinatown in San Jose to succumb to arson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878183\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-1683-800x591.jpg\" alt=\"The Second Market Street Chinatown burned down in an arson fire in 1887. There were no recorded casualties, but the entire Chinese community in San Jose was displaced.\" width=\"800\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-1683-800x591.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-1683-1020x754.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-1683-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/1997-300-1683.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Second Market Street Chinatown burned down in an arson fire in 1887. There were no recorded casualties, but the entire Chinese community in San Jose was displaced. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of History San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were no recorded casualties, but homes and businesses were destroyed and the community was displaced again. There was another small Chinatown in San Jose called the Woolen Mills Chinatown around the same time. The property was owned by the San Jose Woolen Manufacturing Company and provided to workers as a living accommodation. But that Chinatown was too small to accommodate the much larger population of the Second Market Street Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the fire, Chinese residents had already started moving out of San Jose. After the fire, even more left. “There are anecdotal accounts from descendants that people started considering whether or not to move back to China,” Voss said. “Some folks moved to more rural areas where they were out of the public eye.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connie Young Yu’s grandfather was among the immigrants who left for San Francisco. He didn’t return for a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Rise of Heinlenville\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The community would rebuild with the help of another immigrant named John Heinlen. He moved with his wife and children from Ohio to farm in California. Yu said \u003ca href=\"https://web.stanford.edu/group/marketstreet/cgi-bin/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/SJ_Chinatown_Heritagefair.pdf\">Heinlen’s family faced anti-German discrimination in the Midwest\u003c/a> and when he came to California, he saw Chinese immigrants facing discrimination and sympathized with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a friend to the Chinese,” she said. “He had hired Chinese before [and] leased land to the Chinese in his other holdings in Fresno.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months after the fire, news broke that Heinlen had leased some of his land to Chinese residents who lost their homes and land. He was going to build a new Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was such an uproar among the citizens,” Yu said. “They said ‘Down with John Heinlen, he’s a traitor to his people\u003cstrong>.'”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite death threats, Heinlen finished construction of the new Chinatown in 1887, just months after the fire that destroyed the last Chinatown. Angry locals called the new Chinatown “Heinlenville,” and the name stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They couldn’t drive out Chinatown,” Yu said. “Chinatown was there to stay and John Heinlen, to protect the Chinese, he built an eight-foot-high fence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11878188\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/2005-32-4-800x507.jpg\" alt='A flag bearing the Chinese words \"Ng Shing Gung\" Temple of Five Gods, leads a procession outside the gates of Heinlenville. Residents of the Chinatown celebrated festivals with firecrackers and sparklers.' width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/2005-32-4-800x507.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/2005-32-4-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/2005-32-4-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/2005-32-4.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A flag bearing the Chinese words “Ng Shing Gung” Temple of Five Gods, leads a procession outside the gates of Heinlenville. Residents of the Chinatown celebrated festivals with firecrackers and sparklers. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of History of San Jose)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fence had a gate which was locked every night, while foot patrols provided security. Eventually, Young Soong Quong, Connie Young Yu’s grandfather, became a partner at one of the shops in Heinlenville and was able to settle in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Heinlen gave him a chance for a new life in San Jose. He was a merchant and he was able to send for his wife in China,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They had been separated for 14 years. Yu’s grandmother arrived in California in 1910 and they had their first son, Ming Young. Two years later, Yu’s father, John, was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heinlenville became a thriving community with 2,000 residents. Newspaper accounts said the\u003ca href=\"https://content.scu.edu/digital/collection/svhocdm/id/293/\"> Ng Shing Gung Temple\u003c/a>, a two story structure, was the center of the community. The upper floor housed an intricately carved and gilded altar with five deities. The lower floor was used as a town hall and as a Chinese school for the children who grew up in Heinlenville.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Jose’s Last Chinatown\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Heinlenville was San Jose’s longest established Chinatown,\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=https://books.google.com/books?id%3DQ1iXsBTZTPYC%26pg%3DPA10%26lpg%3DPA10%26dq%3Dheinlenville%2Bsan%2Bjose%2Blongest%2Bestablished%2Bchinatown%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3DIsm4WsmPWC%26sig%3DACfU3U15sWrVzpU4f4fX92YJ76wXULY88A%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26ved%3D2ahUKEwi5ipuBt6LwAhW2CTQIHUuiAjwQ6AEwDHoECBIQAw%23v%3Donepage%26q%3Dheinlenville%2520san%2520jose%2520longest%2520established%2520chinatown%26f%3Dfalse&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500848000&usg=AOvVaw3K2QL4it8fVfFJBq6zxuf1\"> lasting for 44 years\u003c/a>, until 1931.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the Chinese Exclusion Act was in place for many years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=http://chcp.org/heinlenville-chinatown/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1623801500855000&usg=AOvVaw2g2_VaK7gzwnF7-g8QP3N3\">immigration from China slowly dwindled\u003c/a>. And many men weren’t as fortunate as Young Soong Quong, who could bring his wife to join him in America. Their families were still in China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The workers were getting kind of old and there were no new laborers coming in to work in the fields,” Yu said. Soon, there weren’t enough people left in Chinatown \u003ca href=\"https://chcp.org/Heinlenville-Chinatown/\">to keep it alive\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Great Depression took a toll on the Heinlen estate, which owned the land the Chinatown stood on. In 1931, the estate went bankrupt and Heinlenville became city property. All the buildings were eventually demolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connie Young Yu has been working with the city to build a park where the last Chinatown once stood, not far from San Jose’s Japantown. The park will commemorate John Heinlen’s contributions to the city and highlight the history of San Jose’s Chinese community. 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"content": "\u003cp>Richard Lim was walking along a quiet sidewalk near UC Berkeley’s fraternity row last summer when, he said, two men called out to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey coronavirus, why don’t you take yourself and go home,” they shouted at the Asian American studies graduate student, who was wearing a mask. “You don’t want to contaminate anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Russell Jeung, Stop AAPI Hate co-founder\"]'If part of the issue is that Asians are being represented or seen as perpetual foreigners and treated as foreigners to be objectified and attacked, then we have to change that narrative.'[/pullquote]Even within his own family, the racist harassment Lim faced was not unique. His aunt, who works at an Asian supermarket, had also experienced racist verbal attacks, making her and Lim just two of thousands of Asian Americans who have reported experiencing harassment during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that summer, with incidents on the rise, Lim decided to do something. He became a volunteer with Stop AAPI Hate, a coalition based in California that has recorded nearly 7,000 hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders nationwide since the beginning of the pandemic and created reports based on its findings. Despite being a small volunteer organization, the group has in just over a year become a leading source for tracking incidents of hate in the country, and its work has been cited by dozens of media outlets, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/chinese-coronavirus-racist-attacks.html\">The New York Times\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/25/asian-owned-businesses-hate-crimes/\">The Washington Post\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-01/coronavirus-anti-asian-discrimination-threats\">The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11860549/tip-of-the-iceberg-how-effects-of-anti-asian-attacks-run-deep\">KQED\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mediamatters.org/msnbc/watch-msnbc-explain-how-racist-rhetoric-conservatives-about-coronavirus-impacting-asian\">MSNBC\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/nonprofits-launch-site-asian-americans-report-coronavirus-related-racism-n1164091\">NBC News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Collecting the data and reporting on the data and getting in front of the media and other folks was really important,” said state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, who chairs the California Asian and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus, of the coalition’s work. “Without that collaboration, without that effort, I’m sure we would have individual stories, but they would not have highlighted this challenge that we’re seeing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers like Lim say Stop AAPI Hate has had far-reaching impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve grown to be more than just a data collection center,” Lim said. “We’ve become a foundation for grounding a movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Jeung, a professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University, co-founded Stop AAPI Hate in March 2020, along with colleagues at two Asian American advocacy organizations: Chinese for Affirmative Action’s Cynthia Choi and the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council’s Manjusha Kulkarni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew from Asian American history that when epidemics came from Asia, Asians would be blamed and then face racism,” said Jeung. “I quickly started documenting the racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center soon received a number of grants from foundations, including one founded by professional basketball player Jeremy Lin, and gathered a group of volunteers and student researchers who could aid their mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a year later, the state of California pitched in, setting aside $1.4 million for the Stop AAPI Hate Coalition and UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center to conduct research on hate crimes against Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the FBI, the U.S. Department of Justice and California’s Attorney General’s Office collect data on hate crimes in California, no government agency was systematically tracking the recent uptick in harassment of Asian Americans, Pan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876976\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/SJM_AAPIprotest_0321.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11876976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/SJM_AAPIprotest_0321.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/SJM_AAPIprotest_0321.jpeg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/SJM_AAPIprotest_0321-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/SJM_AAPIprotest_0321-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/SJM_AAPIprotest_0321-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/SJM_AAPIprotest_0321-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators attend the “#StopAsianHate Community Rally” at San Jose City Hall Plaza in downtown San Jose on March 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Volunteers review each report submitted by community members to the \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/reportincident/\">Stop AAPI Hate website\u003c/a>; more than 2,800 came in during March 2021 alone. Women reported more than two-thirds of all incidents in the coalition’s \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Stop-AAPI-Hate-Report-National-210506.pdf\">most recent national report\u003c/a>. About 44% involved Chinese Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While about 12% of victims said they experienced some form of physical assault, more than two-thirds reported verbal harassment. Others reported civil rights violations, such as workplace discrimination, or online attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone calls you a racial slur from a moving car, that’s not something that you can necessarily call the police about. That’s not violent. You are not physically hurt,” said Chinese for Affirmative Action spokesperson Yamuna Hopwood. “But it’s hateful all the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once received by the coalition, reports are entered into a database. Stop AAPI Hate does not verify the reports, Jeung said, but volunteers do “clean up” the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That involves editing reports for spelling and grammar and translating them into English when necessary, but also interpreting certain aspects of a case, such as determining what type of hate incident took place, explained Eric Augustus Bai, a data engineer who helped Stop AAPI Hate develop new ways to visualize their data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/84xadpSXPxNtbrF358fC?src=embed\" title=\"Types of Discrimination (Stop AAPI Hate))\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregated data sets allow the group to track specific trends, Jeung said. He stressed the importance of depicting racism as “widespread, institutionalized and systemic.” Recent reports from the coalition have analyzed the impact of racism on different Asian American ethnicities, \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Stop-AAPI-Hate_NAPAWF_Whitepaper.pdf\">women and girls\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Stop-AAPI-Hate-Mental-Health-Report-210527.pdf\">mental health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate may be new, but it’s rooted in the work of people with years of experience focusing on Asian American issues, said Karin Wang, a professor of public interest law at UCLA and the former vice president of programs at Asian Americans Advancing Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In terms of what they were able to come together and do, I do think it’s been really impactful,” she said. “I mean, we live in an age where data drives everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Levin, who directs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csusb.edu/hate-and-extremism-center\">Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism\u003c/a> at Cal State San Bernardino, said Stop AAPI Hate’s findings line up with his own research, which focuses on crimes reported to police. Using police data, the center found that hate crimes against Asians in the U.S. increased by almost 200% between the first quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021 — a sign, Levin said, that the trend has not yet peaked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some community members have also started reporting incidents to Stop AAPI Hate in lieu of calling the police, organizers say. The coalition does not have the capacity to directly respond to incidents of harassment, but plans to create online resources to help survivors, including multilingual videos that address actions people can take if bullied, ways to talk to a child dealing with trauma and how to talk with family members about race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"anti-asian-attacks\"]Volunteers also work on other projects aimed at changing common narratives about Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If part of the issue is that Asians are being represented or seen as perpetual foreigners and treated as foreigners to be objectified and attacked, then we have to change that narrative,” Jeung said. “And narrative work involves education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past school year, more than 20 high school interns helped the coalition create social media campaigns and a series of workshops covering intersectionality, the yellow peril stereotype, Japanese American incarceration and mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Wu, a junior at Alhambra High School in Martinez, spent part of the year developing the workshops, which will be posted on the center’s website for use in high school classrooms and student club meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was looking at the worksheets we made, the slides and the outline of the lesson. ... I was just so amazed,” Wu said. “That was kind of when I felt like, well, we could be taken seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate has also been working with Asian American students to learn about their concerns and ideas for increased safety on school campuses. Student leaders drafted a letter with their suggestions, ranging from expanding mental health services to creating a multilingual, online hub for students to anonymously report hate incidents, which State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond recently sent to district superintendents and charter school administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11876981\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02.jpeg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University graduate student Richard Lim at his home in Rowland Heights on May 11, 2021. 'I think a lot of folks have been activated after attacks on the vulnerable and elderly.' \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the coalition has reported more and more cases, its volunteers say they’ve had to balance their own emotional struggles with the tasks at hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard,” Hopwood said. “Acknowledging pain and suffering that victims feel, that we feel vicariously through them, (is) an important step to realize that this is not OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeung said he often spends his day being “pulled from all sides,” tending to media requests, working with corporations interested in donating to Stop AAPI Hate and attending listening sessions run by federal agencies and the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each day, he said, he goes through “the range of emotions, from anger to depression to hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still grieving over the Atlanta shootings. We’re still angered by seeing our elderly pushed and shoved,” Jeung said. “That’s, for me, a real heavy burden to support the community at the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who have been reviewing incident reports for the past year say they are using their anger to fuel their volunteer work, instead of just stewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to try to do what I can with the opportunities that I have, just so I don’t have to sit on my rage and feel numb,” said Boaz Tang, a San Francisco State University graduate student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Stop AAPI Hate seeks to uplift Asian American communities during a time of need, the coalition has faced criticism for its name. And some activists say they worry that the focus on anti-Asian hate incidents is getting co-opted in a way that will lead to more police presence and targeting of Black people within Asian American communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Lacuesta, an Asian American Studies graduate student at San Francisco State, said he supports the coalition’s efforts but that the name homogenizes the Asian American community and is a “complete erasure” of different Asian identities, leaving out South Asians and Middle Eastern people, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeung said naming the organization was not the coalition’s top priority. “We didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about or trying to brand ourselves,” he said. “We’re just trying to address the racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Stop AAPI Hate coalition has called for allyship between different marginalized communities, Lacuesta said some media coverage of attacks on Asian Americans has perpetuated anti-Blackness. “Though there are perpetrators of many backgrounds, Black individuals tend to get the most media attention,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/anti-asian-hate-crime-increasing-lefts-interest-decreasing\">Fox News segment from last month\u003c/a> falsely suggested there is a conspiracy by other news organizations and Democrats to not “identify the race of the attackers,” and strongly implied a majority of those attackers were Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Stop AAPI Hate does not advocate for increased policing as a response to the violence against Asian Americans, some government responses to the attacks have funneled resources to law enforcement, such as a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/20/998599775/biden-to-sign-the-covid-19-hate-crimes-bill-as-anti-asian-american-attacks-rise\">federal hate crimes law\u003c/a> signed by President Biden last month. That has drawn criticism from some of the coalition’s supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Stop AAPI Hate is democratized as a hashtag or as a movement... once it’s in the world, you don’t get to control it, you don’t really get to reel it back, there’s no undo button,” said Tang. “It’s really cool that the movement has grown. But also, things can get co-opted, and it can be taken places that the people who started the organization never intended.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving forward, members of the Stop AAPI Hate coalition say they hope to continue their work combating white supremacy, while seeking to cultivate relationships with different communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lim, the volunteer who said he was harassed near UC Berkeley, noted that Asian Americans have faced discrimination in the United States since the early 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This historical moment is nothing new,” Lim said. “It doesn’t take long to go back even 10 to 15 years to see different forms of anti-Asian hate come across in national political discourse, to understand how Asian Americans are consistently seen as the perpetual foreigner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although racism against Asian Americans predates the pandemic, Hopwood said the events of the past two years have provided an opportunity to create new solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This did not start when the pandemic did, and it won’t end when the pandemic ends,” she said. “It’s all about taking the energy and a lot of the attention that this issue has gathered in this moment and trying to channel it into long-term, meaningful change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Seshadri is a contributor with the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/college-journalism-network/\">CalMatters College Journalism Network\u003c/a>, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. Janelle Salanga contributed reporting. This story and other higher education coverage are supported by the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Meyer/Bay Area News Group)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Volunteers review each report submitted by community members to the \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/reportincident/\">Stop AAPI Hate website\u003c/a>; more than 2,800 came in during March 2021 alone. Women reported more than two-thirds of all incidents in the coalition’s \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Stop-AAPI-Hate-Report-National-210506.pdf\">most recent national report\u003c/a>. About 44% involved Chinese Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While about 12% of victims said they experienced some form of physical assault, more than two-thirds reported verbal harassment. Others reported civil rights violations, such as workplace discrimination, or online attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone calls you a racial slur from a moving car, that’s not something that you can necessarily call the police about. That’s not violent. You are not physically hurt,” said Chinese for Affirmative Action spokesperson Yamuna Hopwood. “But it’s hateful all the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once received by the coalition, reports are entered into a database. Stop AAPI Hate does not verify the reports, Jeung said, but volunteers do “clean up” the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That involves editing reports for spelling and grammar and translating them into English when necessary, but also interpreting certain aspects of a case, such as determining what type of hate incident took place, explained Eric Augustus Bai, a data engineer who helped Stop AAPI Hate develop new ways to visualize their data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/84xadpSXPxNtbrF358fC?src=embed\" title=\"Types of Discrimination (Stop AAPI Hate))\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aggregated data sets allow the group to track specific trends, Jeung said. He stressed the importance of depicting racism as “widespread, institutionalized and systemic.” Recent reports from the coalition have analyzed the impact of racism on different Asian American ethnicities, \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Stop-AAPI-Hate_NAPAWF_Whitepaper.pdf\">women and girls\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Stop-AAPI-Hate-Mental-Health-Report-210527.pdf\">mental health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate may be new, but it’s rooted in the work of people with years of experience focusing on Asian American issues, said Karin Wang, a professor of public interest law at UCLA and the former vice president of programs at Asian Americans Advancing Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In terms of what they were able to come together and do, I do think it’s been really impactful,” she said. “I mean, we live in an age where data drives everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Levin, who directs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csusb.edu/hate-and-extremism-center\">Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism\u003c/a> at Cal State San Bernardino, said Stop AAPI Hate’s findings line up with his own research, which focuses on crimes reported to police. Using police data, the center found that hate crimes against Asians in the U.S. increased by almost 200% between the first quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021 — a sign, Levin said, that the trend has not yet peaked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some community members have also started reporting incidents to Stop AAPI Hate in lieu of calling the police, organizers say. The coalition does not have the capacity to directly respond to incidents of harassment, but plans to create online resources to help survivors, including multilingual videos that address actions people can take if bullied, ways to talk to a child dealing with trauma and how to talk with family members about race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Volunteers also work on other projects aimed at changing common narratives about Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If part of the issue is that Asians are being represented or seen as perpetual foreigners and treated as foreigners to be objectified and attacked, then we have to change that narrative,” Jeung said. “And narrative work involves education.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past school year, more than 20 high school interns helped the coalition create social media campaigns and a series of workshops covering intersectionality, the yellow peril stereotype, Japanese American incarceration and mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Wu, a junior at Alhambra High School in Martinez, spent part of the year developing the workshops, which will be posted on the center’s website for use in high school classrooms and student club meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was looking at the worksheets we made, the slides and the outline of the lesson. ... I was just so amazed,” Wu said. “That was kind of when I felt like, well, we could be taken seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate has also been working with Asian American students to learn about their concerns and ideas for increased safety on school campuses. Student leaders drafted a letter with their suggestions, ranging from expanding mental health services to creating a multilingual, online hub for students to anonymously report hate incidents, which State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond recently sent to district superintendents and charter school administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11876981\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02.jpeg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/051121_StopAAPIHate_PU_sized_02-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University graduate student Richard Lim at his home in Rowland Heights on May 11, 2021. 'I think a lot of folks have been activated after attacks on the vulnerable and elderly.' \u003ccite>(Pablo Unzueta/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the coalition has reported more and more cases, its volunteers say they’ve had to balance their own emotional struggles with the tasks at hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard,” Hopwood said. “Acknowledging pain and suffering that victims feel, that we feel vicariously through them, (is) an important step to realize that this is not OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeung said he often spends his day being “pulled from all sides,” tending to media requests, working with corporations interested in donating to Stop AAPI Hate and attending listening sessions run by federal agencies and the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each day, he said, he goes through “the range of emotions, from anger to depression to hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still grieving over the Atlanta shootings. We’re still angered by seeing our elderly pushed and shoved,” Jeung said. “That’s, for me, a real heavy burden to support the community at the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who have been reviewing incident reports for the past year say they are using their anger to fuel their volunteer work, instead of just stewing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to try to do what I can with the opportunities that I have, just so I don’t have to sit on my rage and feel numb,” said Boaz Tang, a San Francisco State University graduate student.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Stop AAPI Hate seeks to uplift Asian American communities during a time of need, the coalition has faced criticism for its name. And some activists say they worry that the focus on anti-Asian hate incidents is getting co-opted in a way that will lead to more police presence and targeting of Black people within Asian American communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Lacuesta, an Asian American Studies graduate student at San Francisco State, said he supports the coalition’s efforts but that the name homogenizes the Asian American community and is a “complete erasure” of different Asian identities, leaving out South Asians and Middle Eastern people, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeung said naming the organization was not the coalition’s top priority. “We didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about or trying to brand ourselves,” he said. “We’re just trying to address the racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Stop AAPI Hate coalition has called for allyship between different marginalized communities, Lacuesta said some media coverage of attacks on Asian Americans has perpetuated anti-Blackness. “Though there are perpetrators of many backgrounds, Black individuals tend to get the most media attention,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/anti-asian-hate-crime-increasing-lefts-interest-decreasing\">Fox News segment from last month\u003c/a> falsely suggested there is a conspiracy by other news organizations and Democrats to not “identify the race of the attackers,” and strongly implied a majority of those attackers were Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Stop AAPI Hate does not advocate for increased policing as a response to the violence against Asian Americans, some government responses to the attacks have funneled resources to law enforcement, such as a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/20/998599775/biden-to-sign-the-covid-19-hate-crimes-bill-as-anti-asian-american-attacks-rise\">federal hate crimes law\u003c/a> signed by President Biden last month. That has drawn criticism from some of the coalition’s supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Stop AAPI Hate is democratized as a hashtag or as a movement... once it’s in the world, you don’t get to control it, you don’t really get to reel it back, there’s no undo button,” said Tang. “It’s really cool that the movement has grown. But also, things can get co-opted, and it can be taken places that the people who started the organization never intended.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving forward, members of the Stop AAPI Hate coalition say they hope to continue their work combating white supremacy, while seeking to cultivate relationships with different communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lim, the volunteer who said he was harassed near UC Berkeley, noted that Asian Americans have faced discrimination in the United States since the early 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This historical moment is nothing new,” Lim said. “It doesn’t take long to go back even 10 to 15 years to see different forms of anti-Asian hate come across in national political discourse, to understand how Asian Americans are consistently seen as the perpetual foreigner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although racism against Asian Americans predates the pandemic, Hopwood said the events of the past two years have provided an opportunity to create new solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This did not start when the pandemic did, and it won’t end when the pandemic ends,” she said. “It’s all about taking the energy and a lot of the attention that this issue has gathered in this moment and trying to channel it into long-term, meaningful change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They’re actually saying they’re more concerned about other Americans’ hate than they are about the pandemic.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the report outlines the pain of a community experiencing discrimination and hate, it also presents a solution: Those who reported hate crimes they experienced, also reported lower levels of race-based traumatic stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell Jeung, a San Francisco State University Asian American Studies professor and one of the founders of Stop AAPI Hate, said the report’s findings show the trauma racial hatred can inflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our respondents say their primary stressor during the pandemic is racism. 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About one in three Asian and Asian American young adults reported clinically elevated symptoms of depression and general anxiety, and one in four reported a PTSD diagnosis, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One in five Asian Americans who experienced racism display racial trauma, the reported noted, which can manifest as depression, intrusive thoughts, anger, hypervigilance, decreased self-esteem and other deleterious disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After experiencing racism, Jeung said because of what’s happened, some people are avoiding places, and when they do go out they are being hypervigilant and “always watching their back in front of people, when they see someone running, they would actually jump out into the street and be more concerned about the person running at them than they are about the traffic,” he said. “So it’s shaping people’s behaviors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When stressors did arise, immigrants who did not speak English often faced barriers to obtaining mental health care, and also cultural barriers to pursuing that care in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Cindy Liu, a clinical psychologist and professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, worked on the survey, and said anti-Asian hate is not new. 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Democrats have pointed to former President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/22/881810671/white-house-defends-trumps-use-of-racist-term-to-describe-coronavirus\">frequent use of racist phrases\u003c/a> such as “kung flu” to describe the coronavirus as a link to the increase in anti-Asian sentiment in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=20784480-bills-117s9\">The legislation\u003c/a>, introduced by Rep. Grace Meng, D-New York, and Sen. 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The charges carry a potential life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin will personally represent the prosecution at the arraignment Friday and ask that Thompson be held in jail until his trial, according to his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The strength and courage of these women is inspiring,\" Boudin said in the statement. \"Their pain was tangible and will serve as a constant reminder of the importance of our work to make San Francisco safer for all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"anti-asian-attacks\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stabbing incident occurred late Tuesday afternoon at a bus stop close to 4th and Stockton Streets, near the Powell Street BART station. San Francisco police found two women, one in her 60s, the other in her 80s, suffering from stab wounds, the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement. One of the victims had a punctured lung and required extensive surgery, the DA said. 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The DA's office said it is now working with police to investigate any evidence of a hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/chesaboudin/status/1390457675276644352\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson has been intermittently involved in the city’s criminal justice and mental health systems for several years, the DA's office said. Nearly four years ago, he was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and battery, according to court records reviewed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Suspect-in-S-F-double-stabbing-faced-assault-16154864.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>. A judge at the time found him incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to receive mental health treatment at a state hospital in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Thompson returned to San Francisco in 2018, he entered a mental health diversion program in lieu of detention. Thompson’s defense attorney last year sought his exit from the program, which a judge granted, the DA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members of one of the victims, the woman in her mid-80s, whose status was changed on Wednesday from threatening to non-life threatening, have started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/exvd5-help-my-grandma-with-medical-bills?utm_campaign=p_cp_url&utm_medium=os&utm_source=customer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> account to cover her medical expenses. The campaign has already raised nearly $100,000 as of Thursday evening, almost twice its goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While she was waiting at the bus stop, she was stabbed with a long knife in her right arm and entered into her chest,\" Drew Eng, the victim's grandson, wrote on the GoFundMe page. \"San Francisco is my home and my grandma's home. We need to feel safe where we live and not in constant fear. Please keep her and our family in your thoughts and prayers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, following a mass shooting in Georgia that killed six Asian women and two others, Mayor London Breed directed the SFPD to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865171/enough-is-enough-asian-american-community-leaders-and-bay-area-officials-react-to-atlanta-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ramp up foot patrols\u003c/a> in neighborhoods with high concentrations of Asian American residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents the district where the attack took place, said he supports investigating the incident as a potential hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen these types of deliberate, intentional, targeted attacks on Asian people so often that I don't think it's just a coincidence. I think that they're being targeted,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney added that such violence has ripple effects across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has huge impacts on our city when people are afraid to go outside, they're afraid to go onto public transit — our city can't operate and our city is failing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports of anti-Asian hate crimes, some loosely linked to the coronavirus pandemic, have spiked in recent months in a number of cities across the country, including San Francisco, where 12 attacks were reported in the first quarter of 2021. That's up from five during the same period the year before, marking a 140% increase, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csusb.edu/sites/default/files/Report%20to%20the%20Nation%20-%20Anti-Asian%20Hate%202020%20Final%20Draft%20-%20As%20of%20Apr%2030%202021%206%20PM%20corrected.pdf\">Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a new report released this week, \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a>, a national coalition addressing anti-Asian racism, said there's been a 64% increase in reports of physical assault against members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community across the nation over the past year. From mid-March 2020 to the end of March 2021, more than 6,000 hate incidents were reported to Stop AAPI Hate and its partner groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a third of reported incidents happened in public streets or parks, and a nearly equal share occurred in businesses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This report shows that incidents of hate are not abating,\" said Stop AAPI Hate co-founder Cynthia Choi. \"So this is really very disconcerting, and a very challenging time for our community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11860549 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/AAPI-1038x576.jpg']The San Francisco division of the FBI says it is expanding resources to investigate hate crimes and increasing outreach efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate San Francisco attacks in March, an 83-year-old Vietnamese man was knocked down and broke his neck in the fall and a 77-year-old woman was similarly attacked. Police arrested a man on charges of assault and elder abuse in both cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another 83-year-old man who was pushed down in San Francisco in February, broke a hip and spent weeks in the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in January, an \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-senior-attacked-sf-man-pushed-on-video-day-time-attack-caught-anza-vista-crime/10205928/\">84-year-old man\u003c/a> in San Francisco died after being forcefully pushed to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While pledging to aggressively prosecute the case, Boudin's office on Thursday also called on lawmakers to implement more effective prevention and treatment systems to address the many mental health crises that occur regularly on San Francisco's streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For over 40 years, we have failed to invest resources into treatment, supportive housing and other necessary services for those who are mentally ill and their families. 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In a statement, he said his office is still receiving evidence from SFPD and that his office will announce charging details Thursday. He said they expect the suspect to be arraigned as soon as Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Attacks on our [Asian American and Pacific Islander] community and especially on our elderly residents are horrifying, not just to the victims who suffer physical injury but to the entire AAPI community that has been living in fear,\" Boudin said, in the statement. \"We will hold those who commit these acts of violence and hate accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/chesaboudin/status/1390066797542469632?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address the rise in racist attacks against the Asian and Asian American community in San Francisco, Mayor London Breed asked SFPD to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865171/enough-is-enough-asian-american-community-leaders-and-bay-area-officials-react-to-atlanta-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ramp up foot patrols\u003c/a> in areas with a high concentration of Asian and Asian American residents and businesses in addition to launching \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866311/in-the-wake-of-anti-aapi-violence-sf-launches-community-safety-teams-expands-escorts-for-seniors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">community safety teams\u003c/a> earlier this year. 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Additionally, local volunteers have taken to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866642/japantown-prepared-wants-to-keep-san-jose-asian-seniors-safe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">patrolling\u003c/a> neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Department is aware of the concerns in the community following recent high-profile incidents in various neighborhoods of the City,\" SFPD spokesperson Robert Rueca wrote, in a statement. \"These crimes impact all of us and SFPD officers will maintain high visibility vehicle and foot patrols to help deter crime and reassure our communities across our City.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents the district in which the attack took place, said he supports investigating the attack as a potential hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen these types of deliberate, intentional, targeted attacks on Asian people so often that I don't think it's just a coincidence. I think that they're being targeted,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MattHaneySF/status/1389821357790138370?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney added that such violence has ripple effects across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has huge impacts on our city when people are afraid to go outside, they're afraid to go onto public transit — our city can't operate and our city is failing,\" he said. “If people don't feel safe to go outside on a busy street in the middle of the day, our city and small businesses, [the city's] general quality of life is deeply, deeply, deeply damaged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Drew Eng, grandson of one of the victims\"]'San Francisco is my home and my grandma's home. We need to feel safe where we live and not in constant fear. 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