Hand-embroidery. Fine cotton floss. Cotton fabric. Artwork is about 6" in diameter. Includes a 4" base and 9" high tabletop stand.

The Chinese were racialized as inferior, alien, and judged to be perpetual foreigners during the 1850s when anti-Chinese labor sentiment grew. Negative images of the Chinese as being violent, sneaky, diseased heathens, and perverts developed and were popularized in the media throughout U.S. history. These images have seeped into the American psyche for 175 years forming unconscious stereotypes that dehumanize Asians and Asian Americans. Despite the assimilation of Asians and Asian Americans thriving in the U.S., these negative stereotypes and the political "Chinese virus" rhetoric brought about racism and violence against them during the COVID-19 pandemic of the 2020s, treating them again as perpetual foreigners and scapegoats. I am a U.S.-born Chinese American. When will Asian Americans be fully accepted in the United States!