Main description:

This edited collection brings together social scientists working on race and ethnicity to address the question of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on issues linked to racial and ethnic inequalities.

The fourteen chapters that make up this collection were produced during the pandemic in 2020 and are intended to address key facets of the impact of the pandemic in contemporary Europe, the United States, and globally. Individual chapters address the pandemic by drawing both on empirical research and conceptual analysis. They also seek to draw important connections between broader dimensions of racial and ethnic inequalities and the health inequalities that have been highlighted by the sharp impact of the pandemic on particular communities and groups. This volume speaks to the need for researchers working on race and ethnicity to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic through both original research and by reflection on current policy challenges and interventions.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a themed issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Contents:

Introduction: Race and ethnicity in pandemic times

John Solomos

1. Fever dreams: W. E. B. Du Bois and the racial trauma of COVID-19 and lynching

Freeden Blume Oeur

2. Face mask symbolism in anti-Asian hate crimes

Jingqiu Ren and Joe Feagin

3. Prejudice and pandemic in the promised land: how white Christian nationalism shapes Americans' racist and xenophobic views of COVID-19

Samuel L. Perry, Andrew L. Whitehead and Joshua B. Grubbs

4. Race, police, and the pandemic: considering the role of race in public health policing

Adam Dunbar and Nicole E. Jones

5. Racism and nationalism during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Amanuel Elias, Jehonathan Ben, Fethi Mansouri and Yin Paradies

6. Compounded inequality: how the U.S. Paycheck Protection Program is failing Los Angeles Latino small businesses

Karina Santellano

7. Perceived COVID-19 health threat increases psychological distress among Black Americans

Ryon J. Cobb, Christy L. Erving and W. Carson Byrd

8. Anti-Asian discrimination and the Asian-white mental health gap during COVID-19

Cary Wu, Yue Qian and Rima Wilkes

9. COVID-19, Black jurisdictions, and budget constraints: how fiscal footing shapes fighting the virus

Angela Simms

10. How COVID-19 may alleviate the multiple marginalization of racialized migrant workers

Maike Isaac and Jennifer Elrick

11. Rethinking refuge in the time of COVID-19

Nasar Meer, Emma Hill, Timothy Peace and Leslie Villegas

12. Has the Covid-19 pandemic undermined public support for a diverse society? Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany

Lucas G. Drouhot, Soeren Petermann, Karen Schoenwalder and Steven Vertovec

13. Cultures of rejection in the Covid-19 crisis

Benjamin Opratko, Manuela Bojadzijev, Sanja M. Bojanic, Irena Fiket, Alexander Harder, Stefan Jonsson, Mirjana Necak, Anders Neegard, Celina Ortega Soto, Gazela Pudar Drasko, Birgit Sauer and Kristina Stojanovic Cehajic

14. Race, immigration and health: the Hostile Environment and public health responses to Covid-19

Giorgia Dona