With recent surges in anti-Asian hate crimes, the NEA Asian Pacific American 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)
Educator Resources
- Asian Americans (Asian Americans Advancing Justice)
- Untold Civil Rights Stories (UCLA Asian American Studies Center)
- Zinn Education Project
- Fred Korematsu Institute
Organizing & More – Continental Shifts Podcast
What will it take to organize across ethnic groups, specifically Pacific Islander and Asian communities? In this episode, we chop it up with the amazing Tavae Samuelu to strategize ways we might organize API folx across and beyond ethnic or national lines.
COVID-19 and the Effects on the API 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)
- 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)
Model Minority Myth & Identity
- ‘Model Minority’ Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks (NPR)
- If We Called Ourselves Yellow (NPR)
- 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)
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
