Two criminal justice professors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have been awarded a $324,987 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund a three-year program to study anti-Muslim sentiment and Muslim hate crimes in Arkansas. Dr. Tusty ten Bensel, director of the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology, and Dr.
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Trump’s “Chinese Virus” Tweet Linked to Rise of Anti-Asian Hashtags on Twitter
Dr. Yulin Hswen is an assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at UC San Francisco. Her current research seeks to identify attitudes, feelings, and beliefs that influence population behavior and health. Through the collection of unconventional and underground online social…
Sociology Professor Can Speak to Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans
Jie Zhang, Distinguished Professor of sociology and Buffalo State College, who also has served as director of the campus’s Center for China Studies since 2000, can speak to the rise in hate crimes against Asian-Americans in the United States. He also…
Social networks enable hate movements, like boogaloo, to grow rapidly
Using popular social media networks and under-the-radar memes and phrases, hate movements are able to organize and gain appeal, a Washington University in St. Louis expert says. The most recent hate movement to emerge from social networks is an anti-government…