Data associated with: Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence (CRAAV) Focus Group Project

Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence (CRAAV) is a scholarly and community-oriented initiative founded by Erin Aeran Chung (Political Science, Johns Hopkins University), Clara Han (Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University), and H. Yumi Kim (History, Johns Hopkins University) in Fall 2021 to build anti-racist coalitions across Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore. It takes anti-Asian violence as a site at which to develop intersectional frameworks to engage the heterogenous challenges facing AAPI communities and interrogate the effects of white supremacy on academic knowledge produced about minoritized communities. An integral component of the initiative is our community partnerships, through which we have sought to identify the most pressing areas of concern in the Baltimore-area AAPI communities. In Spring 2023, students in Professor Erin Chung’s Comparative Racial Politics class engaged in a project seeking to document the voices of the community through a pilot AAPI focus group interview. They began by identifying key community and advocacy organizations in the Baltimore area and, from there, conducting individual interviews with leaders from a few of the organizations. On April 19, 2023, Professor Chung and her students conducted a focus group interview with 8 AAPI residents whom they recruited from the organizations. Topics of discussion included their experiences living as AAPI residents in the Baltimore area, their relationships with community organizations, and the central community issues that affect AAPI residents. The CRAAV Focus Group Project collection contains the focus group transcript. In order to ensure the confidentiality of the focus group participants, all personal identifiers have been removed from the transcripts in the collection, including participants’ names, self-introductions at the beginning of the focus groups, and informal conversations that either contained personal information or that were between participants and not meant to be directed at the group. (2023-06)