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Many Asian Americans live daily with the corrosive effects of racism and racialized violence, yet there's very little research funded on Asian American health.

This story is adapted from 'It Just Stays With You': The Corrosive Health Effects Of Decades Of Anti-Asian Violence, originally published with

, originally published with NPR member station WBUR. Days after a man shot and killed six Asian women and two other people in Asian owned spas in the Atlanta area in March, Doris Chang sat with her 11-year-old son to learn who the victims were. The news held their faces and their names – Asian faces, Asian names just like his. “My son looked at a picture and he said, ‘that looks like Ā-pó,’ which is my mother,” Chang says. “So, it was really, really hard not to personalize [the shootings] as something that could have happened to anybody in my family, anybody that I know.”

Attacks against Asian Americans are on the rise. Here’s what you can do “We’re just tired,” Will Lex Ham of New York City tells CNN. “We’re tired of being scapegoated.” Ham’s sentiments echo the fatigue, frustration and collective trauma experienced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) due to recent racist attacks on their communities. For many in the AAPI community, just leaving home requires a new routine and a mental shift that prioritizes survival. It’s coupled with a subtle fear, wondering if they or a loved one will become the next victim. “I no longer lis...

Attacks against Asian Americans are on the rise. Here's what you can do CNN 3/17/2021 By Ashley Vaughan, CNN © Ringo Chiu/AFP/Getty Images "It has been a really painful experience to see our most revered members of our community being targeted," says Doris Chang, clinical psychologist and professor at New York University. "We're just tired," Will Lex Ham of New York City tells CNN. "We're tired of being scapegoated." Ham's sentiments echo the fatigue, frustration and collective trauma experienced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) due to recent racist attack...