AAPI Resources

With recent surges in anti-Asian hate crimes, the NEA Asian Pacific Islander Caucus have put together some resources to educate the community on our issues and history.

AAPI History in the US

• Asian Americans (PBS LearningMedia Docuseries)
• ‘Forgotten by society’ – how Chinese migrants built the transcontinental railroad (The Guardian)
• Building the Transcontinental Railroad: How 20,000 Chinese Immigrants Made It Happen (History.com)
• The Chinese Exclusion Act (American Experience PBS Video)
• The U.S. Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom (NEA Today)
• The Impact of the US Occupation on the Hawaiian People (NEA Today)
• Chinese-American Descendants Uncover Forged Family Histories (NPR)
• ‘Paper sons,’ hidden pasts (LA Times)
• No-No Boys (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
• Japanese Internment Camps (History.com)
• A History of Locke: The Oldest Rural Chinatown in the US (Culture Trip)
• The Original DREAMer Recalls ‘All Pervasive’ Fear As An Undocumented Child (NPR)
• The 8-Year-Old Chinese-American Girl Who Helped Desegregate Schools—in 1885 (History.com)
• The Legacy of Civil Rights Leader Fred Korematsu (NPR)
• Forgotten Los Angeles History: The Chinese Massacre of 1871 (LA Public Library)
• Black and Asian Solidarity in American History: The Power of Unity Exemplified by 5 Major Events (Asian Americans Advancing Justice)
• Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
• Watsonville Anti-Filipino Riot, a reminder of bigotry gone berserk (Inquirer.net)
• America’s long history of scapegoating its Asian citizens (National Geographic)
• The long history of racism against Asian Americans in the US (PBS News Hour)

Educator Resources

• Asian Americans (Asian Americans Advancing Justice)
• Untold Civil Rights Stories (UCLA Asian American Studies Center)
• Zinn Education Project
• Fred Korematsu Institute
• Speaking Up Against Racism Around the New Coronavirus (Learning for Justice)
• Raising a Conscious Kid: Alternatives to Dr. Seuss

Unions & Collective Action – Continental Shifts Podcast

So far, we have discussed the importance of healing, self-care, and reflection at this critical moment in education as the COVID pandemic continues to impact our daily lives.  All pandemic, and for many years prior, we have seen corporate, education-reform, anti-union forces weaponizing dialogue around Critical Race Theory, social justice, and racial justice. Today, we want to talk about our labor movement and union collectives. How will our collectives across union spaces grow, galvanize, and move forward the movement for education justice?   Song Credit:  Nobody, Nas & Lauryn Hill

1. Unions & Collective Action 41:47
2. Nothing Normal About Education Pre-COVID 55:16
3. Reclaiming Self-Care 43:36
4. Reflection is Truly Eternal 45:36
5. Organizing & More 57:52

COVID-19, Anti-Asian Racism, & Their Effects on the AAPI Community

• Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States (White House)
• Coronavirus/COVID-19 Resources to Stand Against Racism (Asian Americans Advancing Justice)
• Reports of Anti-Asian Assaults, Harassment and Hate Crimes Rise as Coronavirus Spreads (Anti-Defamation League)
• Study Shows Rise of Hate Crimes, Violence Against Asian Americans During the Pandemic (NBC)
• Unpacking The Surge In Violence Against Asian Americans (NPR)
• America’s long history of scapegoating its Asian citizens (National Geographic)
• The long history of racism against Asian Americans in the US (PBS News Hour)
• A Tense Lunar New Year for the Bay Area After Attacks on Asian-Americans (NY Times)
• ‘Stop killing us’: Attacks on Asian Americans highlight rise in hate incidents amid COVID-19 (USA Today)
• String of attacks against older Asians leaves big city Chinatowns on edge (NBC)
• Speaking Up Against Racism Around the New Coronavirus (Learning for Justice)
• Asian Americans have been verbally abused and physically attacked, shunned during pandemic, study shows (LA Times)
• Lesson of the Day: A Rise in Attacks on Asian-Americans (NY Times)
• The coronavirus and the long history of using diseases to justify xenophobia (Washington Post)
• ‘Black and Asian unity’: attacks on elders spark reckoning with racism’s roots (The Guardian)
• Why has there been a rise in anti-Asian hate crime in the US? (The Guardian)
• Addressing Anti-Asian Bias (Learning for Justice)
• Self-Care Tips for Asian Americans Dealing With Racism Amid Coronavirus (Huffpost)
• Non-Black People of Color Need to Start Having Conversations about the Anti-Blackness in Our Communities (DoSomething)
• Addressing Anti-Asian Racism with Students (Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center)

Model Minority Myth & Identity

• ‘Model Minority’ Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks (NPR)
• If We Called Ourselves Yellow (NPR)
• The Model Minority Myth (Harvard)
• Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All (Time)
• Debunking the Model Minority Myth (USC Pacific Asia Museum)
• Bhagat Singh Thind’s Case Shows the Link Between Whiteness and Citizenship (Teen Vogue)
• Native Hawaiians & Pacific Islanders: A Community of Contracts in the United States (Asian Americans Advancing Justice)

Cultural Celebrations

• 8 Lunar New Year Books by Asian Authors (Colorful Pages)

AAPI Labor Movement

• Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO (APALA)
• Kent Wong receives the NEA’s 2017 Human and Civil Rights Award (UCLA)
• United Farm Workers (UFW) Movement: Philip Vera Cruz, Unsung Hero (UCLA)
• Grapes Of Wrath: The Forgotten Filipinos Who Led A Farmworker Revolution (NPR)

Scholarly Articles

• The Trappings of Visibility (Hyphen Magazine)
• What If We Saved Ourselves? (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• Why Violence Goes Viral: A Thread in Six Parts (Los Angeles Review of Books)

Book Lists

• Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month: 15 Diverse Books to Tell Our Stories (Colorful Pages)
• 10 Diverse Books about Asian American and Pacific Islander History (Colorful Pages)
• Countering the Racism Against Our Asian Communities: 10 Books Featuring Asian Characters (Colorful Pages)
• Books About Samoa (Goodreads)
• Books Written by Oceanian Authors (Goodreads)

Additional Resources

• Empowering Pacific Islander Communities 
• Polynesia Voyaging Society 
• Le Gafa: Leadership & education Through Gagana Fa’a Samoa
• South Pacific Islander Organization
• National Pacific Islander Education Network
• Go for Broke National Education Center
• NextShark – Asian American News
• Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience

Folx to Follow

• Diversify Our Narrative (Instagram)
• Teach and Transform (Website)