Name withheld for privacy considerations, Pandemic Diaries Project, 2020

Name withheld for privacy considerations, Pandemic Diaries Project, 2020

Speaks on the fears of being Asian in Alhambra (a predominantly Asian city) during the pandemic, due to national and local racist slurs against the Asian community.

Name withheld for privacy considerations

Pandemic Diaries Project, Special Collections & Archives, California State University, Los Angeles

California State University, Los Angeles, Library. Special Collections & Archives

2020-05-14

IN COPYRIGHT

MP4

Oral History

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"Being Asian at this time is terrifying because there has been multiple news that Asians are being attacked because we are to blame for this. Just because we are Asian, we are automatically associated with the virus. It also doesn’t help that our President publicly said that COVID-19 was the Chinese virus. I have a lot of anxiety leaving my house. I get scared that someone will make a comment or try to attack me."