Stop AAPI Hate National Report

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From March 19, 2020 to December 31, 2021, a total of 10,905 hate incidents against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) persons were reported to Stop AAPI Hate. Of the hate incidents reflected in this report, 4,632 occurred in 2020 (42.5%) and 6,273occurred in 2021 (57.5%).

This national report features:

(1) the overall descriptions of 10,905 hate incidents from Stop AAPI Hate data; and

(2) the gender-specific descriptions of hate incidents.

It also highlight policies and recommendations to address experiences with hate, including policies from Stop AAPI Hate’s recently released California State Policy Recommendations to Address AAPI Hate report, which can be adopted in states around the country. Information about our standard data cleaning procedures and more detailed tables can be found in the Technical Appendix at the end of this report.

According to Stop AAPI Hate data, verbal harassment (63.0%) continues to make up the biggest share of total incidents reported.

Overall Key Findings:

  • AAPI women report more harassment (69.8%) than AAPI men (63.0%) and AAPInon-binary people (56.3%).
  • AAPI non-binary people report more deliberate avoidance or shunning (21.4%), being coughed at or spat on (13.9%), denial of service (8.3%) and online harassment (12.1%) than AAPI women and men.
  • A higher percentage of hate incidents experienced by AAPI women occurred inpublic streets (34.5%) compared to AAPI men (32.1%) and AAPI non-binarypeople (29.5%).
  • Higher percentages of hate incidents experienced by AAPI non-binary peopleoccurred online (13.9%), at school (11.8%) and at university or college (7.8%).
  • Higher percentages of AAPI women (19.1%) and AAPI non-binary people(23.1%) identified gender/gender identity as one reason for discrimination compared to AAPI men (5.5%).

Read the report.

Stop AAPI Hate is a national coalition addressing anti-Asian racism across the United States. The coalition was founded by the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council(A3PCON), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) and San Francisco State University’s Asian American Studies Department

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