Trump, the Coronavirus Pandemic, Asian American Xenophobia, and Humanistic Psychology

Benjamin, Elliot

doi:10.1177/0022167820979650

Cited by 16 publications

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“…Beyond the oft-cited call for more research, what is particularly needed is research that is empirical. This is because, of the 1,707 publications that were excluded from this study, many were: commentaries; conceptual and rhetorical analyses of the performance of political leaders; personal accounts of COVID-19 experiences; or reflections on the leadership of those on the frontline ( 29 , 48 – 53 ). This suggests there is considerable opportunity for empirical research, particularly that which will help to clarify different approaches to lead teams and organizations during a pandemic.…”

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confidence: 99%

Leadership During a Pandemic: A Lexical Analysis

Lopes

2022

Front. Public Health

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To manage pandemics, like COVID-19, leadership can enable health services to weather the storm. Yet there is limited clarity on how leadership manifested and was discussed in the literature during COVID-19. This can have considerable public health implications given the importance of leadership in the health sector. This article addresses this missed opportunity by examining the literature on leadership during a pandemic. Following a systematic search of nine academic databases in May 2021, 1,747 publications were screened. Following this, a lexical analysis of the results section was conducted, sourced from a corpus of publications across myriad journals. The results found a prevalence of references to “leader” as a sole actor, risking the perpetuation of a view that critical decisions emanate from a singular source. Moreover, “leadership” was a concept disconnected from the fray of frontline workers, patients, and teams. This suggests a strong need for more diverse vocabularies and conceptions that reflect the “messiness” of leadership as it takes shape in relation to the challenges and uncertainties of COVID-19. There is a considerable opportunity to advance scholarship on leadership via further empirical studies that help to clarify different approaches to lead teams and organizations during a pandemic.

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confidence: 99%

Leadership During a Pandemic: A Lexical Analysis

Lopes

2022

Front. Public Health

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“…While fear of infection was indicated to be the main cause of stigma towards this group, other factors, such as food and mask culture, political ideology, and racism, were identified as potential contributors (Xu et al, 2021). The rise of Asian American xenophobia in the U.S. related to COVID-19 can be linked to the frequent and inaccurate reference to the coronavirus as “the Chinese Virus” by the forty-fifth president (Benjamin, 2021) and the former vice president (Haokip, 2021). This language and terminology may have led to the racial profiling of individuals who were assumed to be associated with the virus (Somvichian-Clausen, 2020).…”

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Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Asian Americans in the United States: Experiences of Violence, Discrimination, and Family Support

Lerner

Lee

2021

J Interpers Violence

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Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) Asian Americans in the U.S. have multiple stigmatized identities, yet their experiences of violence and discrimination are not well understood. We utilized the 2015 United States Trans Survey, the largest survey to date with U.S. TGD people, to study the experiences of TGD Asian Americans. Our study included 699 TGD Asian Americans who experienced violence and discrimination in the form of unequal treatment, verbal harassment, and physical attack. We assessed how experiences differed by sociodemographic characteristics, including birthplace, income, age, education, disability, gender identity, and region. We also explored how family support was associated with experiences of violence in the sample. Bivariate analyses and multivariable regressions were used to understand how sociodemographic variables and family support are linked to experiences of violence and discrimination. Results indicated that income, age, disability, gender identity, and family support are significantly associated with violence and discrimination. As TGD Asian Americans currently experience high levels of violence and discrimination due to transphobia and a rapidly rising anti-Asian bias stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts to better understand factors that may increase vulnerability and identify how family support can mitigate those experiences are imperative.

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“…We further argue that nativist racism-or the framing of descendants from those nations as incapable of ever being American-is key to comprehending the internal divisiveness in this strategy. Some leveraged Trump's China-blaming into harassing Americans who looked Chinese, casting them as "forever foreigners", purportedly connecting them to the China that was the main target of the President's blaming stratagem (Benjamin 2021;Louie 2020a;Tessler et al 2020). Trump's own rhetoric evolved to projecting the blame for the pandemic to Latino immigrantsmostly those entering the country via the U.S.-Mexico border.…”

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“Divide, Divert, & Conquer” Deconstructing the Presidential Framing of White Supremacy in the COVID-19 Era

Louie

Viladrich

2021

Social Sciences

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Based on the analysis of President Donald J. Trump’s social media, along with excerpts from his speeches and press releases, this study sheds light on the framing of white supremacy during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Our findings reveal that the triad of divide, divert, and conquer was crucial to Trump’s communications strategy. We argue that racist nativism—or racialized national threats to American security—is key to comprehending the external divisiveness in this strategy. When Trump bitterly cast China as the cause of America’s pandemic fallout and Mexico as the source of other key American problems (i.e., crime and low-paid jobs for U.S.-born Americans), he sowed clear racialized divisions between the United States (U.S.). and these two nations. We further argue that nativist racism—or the framing of descendants from those nations as incapable of ever being American—is key to comprehending the internal divisiveness in the former President’s pandemic rhetoric. Trump’s framing of China and Mexico as enemies of America further found its culprits in Asian and Latino Americans who were portrayed as COVID-19 carriers. Trump’s narrative was ultimately geared to diverting attention from his administration’s mishandling of COVID-19, the dismal structural conditions faced by detained and undocumented Latinos, and the anti-Asian bias faced by some of his Asian American constituents. In the conclusions, this article makes a call for countering white supremacy by developing comparative approaches that pay more attention to how different racisms play out for different groups.

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Trump, the Coronavirus Pandemic, Asian American Xenophobia, and Humanistic Psychology

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

Leadership During a Pandemic: A Lexical Analysis

Leadership During a Pandemic: A Lexical Analysis

Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) Asian Americans in the United States: Experiences of Violence, Discrimination, and Family Support

“Divide, Divert, & Conquer” Deconstructing the Presidential Framing of White Supremacy in the COVID-19 Era

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