Learn more about Asian representation and the Asian-American experience

Asians in the Arts

• Final Bow for Yellowface: Dancing Between Intention and Impact by Phil Chan

• Musicians From a Different Shore: Asians and Asian-Americans in Classical Music by Mari Yoshihara

• The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday by Ju Yon Kim

AAPI History, Identity, and Current Day Issues

Books

• The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee

• Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader eds Jean Y Wu and Thomas C Chen

• The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams

• War, Gender and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work by Cathy Schlund Vials

• The Karma of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad

• Forever Struggle: Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston’s Chinatown, 1880-2018 by Michael Liu

• Minor Feelings by Cathy Hong Park

• The Third Reconstruction by Reverend Dr. William Barber

Articles

• Dismantle White Supremacy, Protect Asian Lives (Infographic by ARISE, PrYSM, Students for Education Equity at Brown)

• Black/Asian Solidarity by The Cross Cultural Solidarity History Project

• Asian Americans Advancing Justice Resources for Asian American Community on Anti-Blackness

• New York Times: There Are Two Asian-Americas, and One is Invisible

• New York Times: What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America

• Learning for Justice: After Atlanta: Teaching About Asian American Identity and History

• Rethinking Schools: Dear Educators, It Is Time to Fight for Asian America

• CNN: Black-Asian Solidarity Has a Long and Storied History in America

Poetry & Music

• Last Days by Tamiko Beyer

• Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

• If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar

• Split by Cathy Linh Che

• A list of publications from Kundiman Fellows

Videos, Films, Podcasts

• Asian Americans (PBS Series)

• Ancestors in the Americas by Loni Ding

• The Chinese Exclusion Act (PBS)

• Who Killed Vincent Chin? by Renee Tajima and Christine Choy

• We Are Not A Stereotype (Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center video series)

• Race in America: Race Matters. Conversation with Professor Erika Lee & Helen Zia (Washington Post)

• Sentenced Home (PBS) – on Cambodian deportation

• Keep Saray Home by Brian Redondo, AARW & GBLS-AOU – on Southeast Asian deportation in Massachusetts

• How Are The Atlanta Shootings Reverberating Among AAPIs in the Commonwealth? (WBUR)

• What the Georgia Shootings Reveal About Anti-Asian Racism in the US (WBUR)

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Children, Young Learners

Collections

• Asian/Asian-American Children’s Books (Lee & Low Books)

• Recommended Asian American Children’s Literature by Dr. Noreen Naseem Rodriguez, Iowa State University

• “APA Authors and Illustrators” by Mia Wenjen, the Pragmatic Mom

• Don’t Yuck My Yum by Ashia Ray, Books for Littles

• GoodReads lists of AAPI titles

Titles

• The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi

• Eyes that Kiss at the Corners by Joanna Ho

• My Footprints by Bao Phi

• Drawn Together by Minh Le

• Grandpa Grumps by Katrina Moore

• Fish for Jimmy by Katie Yamasaki

• Coolies by Yin

• Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist by Julie Leung

• Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide by Icy Smith

• Grandfather’s Story Cloth by Linda Gerdner & Sarah Langford. (Text in English & Hmong)

• It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear, Julie Morstad

• What does racism have to do with me? Asian American kids get talking… (read aloud video/book and accompanying workbook) Adapted by Katie Yue-Sum Li

Young Adults

• Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai

• Year of the Rat by Grace Lin

• Journey for Justice: the Life of Larry Itliong by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon and Gayle Romasanta

• Escape to Gold Mountain Graphic Novel by David H.T. Wong

• They Called Us Enemy Graphic Novel by George Takei

• A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata

• We Are Not Free by Traci Chee

• Vietnamerica by G.B. Tran

• We Should Never Meet by Aimee Phan

• The Boat Interactive Graphic Novel based on the story by Nam Le, Adaptation by Matt Huynh, Produced by SBS

• Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 by Him Mark Lai, Lim, Yung

• The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

• A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series) by Ronald Takaki