Journal of English Language Studies
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Journal of English Language Studies, 7(2), 209-227; 2022
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of NBC News Entitles' Anti-Asian Hate
Incident Reports Nearly Doubled in March, New Data Says'
Annisa Indah Sukma
a *
, Zakie Asidiky
b
a, b
STBA YAPARI-ABA Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia
Article Info
Article history
Submission Date: 27 March 2022
Acceptance Date: 27 September
2022
Keywords:
critical discourse analysis; racism;
Asian-Americans; discrimination
*Corresponding author:
annisaindahsukma@gmail.com
Abstract
This research aimed to critically discover the author's
ideology in the text entitled "Anti-Asian hate incident reports
nearly doubled in March, new data says." In the analysis, the
researchers used a qualitative method along with
Fairclough's CDA model. As a result, it implied that
Americans looked down on Asian-Americans, Americans
took their stress out due to Covid-19 on Asian-Americans,
Asian woman were the biggest victim in Asian hate, some
Asian-Americans living in the U.S. had low economic levels,
and the media had a big role in the development of Asian
hate cases. This research result can help more people
understand and reduce racism, at least by understanding
that human status is the same regardless of race, gender,
economy, or religion.
© 2022 JELS and the Authors - Published by JELS.
INTRODUCTION
Racism is an action in which the dominant society denigrates, restricts, or
oppresses other communities to reinforce, justify, and maintain a racial hierarchy
in a social world (William et al., 2019). As a result, racism increases a set of
dynamic, interdependent components or subsystems that cause the creation and
maintenance of reciprocal causality of racial inequities across various sectors of
society. Consequently, many cases of racism have been reported in the news up
to the present day, presenting that there are still many people out there who hold
racist beliefs. They categorize other people based on their skin color, nationality,
ethnicity, phenotypic or other markers of social difference.
In the context of social life in the United States (U.S.), according to
Buchanan et al. (2020), racism is still considered a huge humanitarian case.
Accordingly, there is a social movement called 'Black Lives Matter' that peaked