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books and articles

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics – Lynn Fujiwara, Shireen Roshanraven, Piya Chatterjee
Chinese America: the Untold Story of America’s Oldest New Community – Peter Kwong and Dušanka Mišcevic
Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity – Vijay Prashad
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning – Cathy Park Hong
Multicultural history of the U.S. and stereotypes of Asian-Americans – Different Mirror – Ronald Takaki
No No Boy – John Okada
The Making of Asian America: A History – Erika Lee
Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear – John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats
The Karma of Brown Folk – Vijay Prashad
They Call Us Enemy – George Takei
Breast and Eggs – Mieko Kawakami.
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: A Novel – Cho Nam-Joo
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority - Ellen D. Wu.
Snow Falling on Cedars- David Guterson
Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

Penguin Random House “Must-Read Books for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.” This Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, celebrate the many cultures and stories within the AANHPI community with books by authors of Asian, East Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander heritage and cultures.

Social Justice Books’ List for AANHPI Heritage Month

Brookline Booksmith’s AANHPI Book List

Imagination Soup’s ‘85 Brilliant Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Children’s Books’

“History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States”, Mar. 25, 2021 article by Maria Martinolich, Kamini Ramdeen, Niven McCall-Mazza in the Skimm’

Smithsonian’s ‘We Are Here’ - 30 inspiring Asian American and Pacific Islanders Who Have Shaped the United States - Naomi Hirahara

PBS Learning Media hosts a collection of videos, lessons, and more for all grade levels.

"The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence", Feb. 28, 2021 article by Hua Hsu in The New Yorker

Asian Americans - A Diverse and Growing Population

THE U.S. ASIAN POPULATION is a diverse one. A record 20 million Asian Americans trace their roots to more than 20 countries in East and Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent, each with unique histories, cultures, languages and other characteristics. The 19 largest origin groups together account for 94% of the total Asian population in the U.S. See Fact Sheets on Asians in the US from the Pew Research Center.

"‘Model Minority’ Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians and Blacks", April 19, 2017 article by Kat Chow

Watch

documentaries

American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs – PBS documentary on a Chinese American social activist/author/philosopher/feminist who became a leader in Detroit’s Black Power Movement in the 1960s and fought shoulder to shoulder with activists such as Malcom X and C. L. R. James

Asian Americans – PBS documentary of the history of challenges experienced by Asian Americans

The Grace Lee Project – Preview on YouTube about the name "Grace Lee" as a thread between Asian Americans following the legacy of Grace Lee Boggs

Who killed Vincent Chin? – Academy-Award nominated film about a murderer who escaped justice in the court system

Resistance at Tule Lake tells the long-suppressed story of incarcerated Japanese Americans who defied the government by refusing to swear unconditional loyalty to the U.S. Though this was an act of protest and family survival, they were branded as “disloyals” by the government and packed into the newly designated Tule Lake Segregation Center.

We Need To Talk About Anti-Asian Hate – A documentary produced by Eugene Lee Yang, a queer Korean-American popular on YouTube, that gives an easy to digest story on AAPI history, Asian women in the workplace, and recent events involving many different Asian communities.

“We Are Not a Stereotype” - The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center is proud to present We are not a stereotype, a video series for educators, by educators. This series explores and challenges the complexity surrounding the term Asian Pacific American, breaking it down into topics that span multiple timelines, geographies, and identities.