No Place for Hate California: A Model for Community-Centered Policymaking

• Published in: Asian American policy review Vol. 33; pp. 14 - 27
• Main Authors: Cho, Candice, Lee, Annie, Seeram-Santana, Santosh
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Harvard Journal of African American Policy Studies 01.04.2023
• Subjects: Accountability; Asian Americans; Beauty salons; Civil rights; Coalitions; Community organizations; COVID-19; Freedom of movement; Gender; Harassment; Hate; Hate crimes; Minority & ethnic groups; Pacific Islander people; Policy making; Public health; Public spaces; Public transportation; Racism; Sexualization; United States > US; California
• ISSN: 1062-1830

These are just three of more than 11,000 reports of hate against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) shared with the Stop AAPI Hate coalition during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many more acts continue to go unreported, making the actual number much higher-potentially in the millions. Reports of anti-AAPI hate come from all fifty states and the District of Columbia, with nearly 40 percent from California. In response to the rise in hate against AAPI communities, Stop AAPI Hate introduced No Place for Hate California, a package of first-in-the-nation, state-level policy proposals. Together, these proposals take a gender-based, public health, and civil rights approach to addressing the racialized and sexualized verbal harassment experienced by AAPIs (especially AAPI women) in public, which comprise a majority of the reports submitted to Stop AAPI Hate. Stop AAPI Hate partnered with state legislators and mobilized a coalition of over fifty community-based organizations.