Faculty Introduction for “Anti-Chinese Sentiments During the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Trump Administration’s Racialization of the Medical Crisis”
Zhiqing Guo wrote “Anti-Chinese Sentiments During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Trump Administration’s Racialization of the Medical Crisis” for my Writing as Inquiry I, Spring 2020. This is a refined version of Guo’s final research project. In that project, Guo identified and investigated a significant issue that still interests a broader audience nowadays: the racialization of COVID-19 by ex-President Donald Trump and his administration. Guo also draws attention to how Trump’s irresponsible and opportunistic exploitation of the pandemic has serious repercussions which continue to affect Asian Americans and Asians in the United States and other parts of our world. This exploitation, Guo further argues, has weakened the American health system, and left visible marks on the lives of many Americans, Chinese, and Asians.
In responding to this problem of racializing the pandemic, Guo offers an arguable and defendable thesis statement, one that is supported by evidence taken from trustworthy and reliable sources. “Anti-Chinese Sentiments” represents a well-researched and clean work. I would like to congratulate Zhiqing Guo on this accomplishment.
Adam Yaghi, Lecturer in the Writing Program
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