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Journal Article
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2021
Overview
Photos and accompanying captions also framed this figure as a responsible masked mother who ensures her children, too, are masked and protected from infection. [...]by masking herself, she responsibly protects the world from her potential contagion. In the era of Amy Chua's tiger mom, the responsible Asian mother can easily elide into the stereotypical hyper-responsible Chinese American mother, single-minded in her Confucian-influenced approach to child-raising, an approach criticized by many as being too close to child abuse by Western standards and too academically menacing (Corrigan). The spring, summer, and fall of 2020 saw social media circulate user-witnessed videos of overwhelmed hospital intensive care units and macabre morgue trucks, Black Lives Matter (BLM)-led protests against state-sanctioned anti-Black violence, right-wing counterprotests against BLM and local and state government public health mandates, and election rallies during which racist and nativist rhetoric like \"kung flu\" and \"China virus\" became normalized. Do significations of un/ masking take on additional symbolic meaning with respect to fears of anti-Asian violence? A Twitter user explains imposed safety measures on their parents: \"IF they [parents] have to go to a mall for urgent items I gave them a time limit to keep my elderly parents out of sight of any person who might attach [sic] them because they're a pair of weak and old Asian couple\" (@WWHdotcom).
