UAB Social Justice Café Examines Rise Of Anti-Asian Hate Amid The Pandemic

Birmingham AL

26 March, 2021

3:43 PM

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From the University of Alabama at Birmingham: March 26, 2021 By Fletcher Allen The University of Alabama at Birmingham will host a Social Justice Café conversation examining the rise of anti-Asian sentiment experienced by Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The free virtual event will be from 4-5 p.m., Wednesday, March 31. Peter Verbeek, Ph.D., associate professor and peace behavior scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Anthropology, will lead the discussion. Verbeek lived in Japan for 20 years and is deeply connected to Japanese people and their culture. Social Justice Café is a bimonthly community lecture and conversation series sponsored by UAB's Student Multicultural and Diversity Programs. This press release was produced by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The views expressed here are the author's own.