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As Coronavirus Spreads, Racism And Xenophobia Are Too

2020/3/11
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Coronavirus is all over the headlines. Accompanying the growing anxiety around its spread, has been suspicion and harassment of Asians and Asian Americans. For more on this, we turned to Gene Demby), co-host of NPR's Code Switch) podcast, and his conversation with historian Erika Lee. We talk about how this wave of stigma is part of a longer history in the United States of camouflaging xenophobia as public health and hygiene concerns.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices)NPR Privacy Policy)