Resources for Building BIPOC Unity Against Asian Hate

Books:

Bow, Leslie. Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South. NY UP, 2010.

Kim, Elaine H. and Chungmoo Choi, editors. Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism. Routledge, 1998.

Kim, Elaine H. and Lilia Villanueva V. et al., editors. Making More Waves: New Writing By Asian American Women. Beacon, 1997.

Lee, Erika. America for Americans: A HIstory of Xenophobia in the United States. Basic, 2019.

Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. UNC P, 2003.

Lee, Erika. The Making of Asian America: A History. Simon and Schuster, 2015. 

Mahootian, S (2021). Chapter Five: Contact Media: Language Choice and Identity in the New World. Seeking Identity: Language in Society, 81. 

Schlund-Vials, Cathy J. and K. Scott Wong et al, editors. Asian America: A Primary Source Reader. Yale UP, 2017. 

Articles:

“Asian American Milestones: Timeline.” History, 22 Mar. 2021, www.history.com/topics/immigration/asian-american-timeline. Accessed 7 Jun. 2021.

 Budiman, Abby and Neil G. Ruiz. “Key facts About Asian Origin Groups In the U.S..” Pew Research Center, May 19, 2021, www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/29/key-facts-about-asian-origin-groups-in-the-u-s/. Accessed 6 Jun. 2021.

 Chong, Raymond. “The Forgotten Chinese Massacre At Hells Canyon.” AsAmNews, 14 Sept. 2020. www.asamnews.com/2020/09/14/hells-canyon-massacre-left-34-chinese-gold-miners-dead-in-hidden-chapter-in-u-s-history/. Accessed 7 Jun. 2021.

 De Leon, Adrian. “The Long History of U.S. Racism Against Asian Americans, From ‘Yellow Peril’ to ‘Model Minority’ to the ‘Chinese Virus.” The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2020,

www.theconversation.com/the-long-history-of-us-racism-against-asian-americans-from-yellow-peril-to-model-minority-to-the-chinese-virus-135793. Accessed 15 Jun. 2021.

Demsas, Jerusalem and Rachel Ramirez. “The History Of Tensions - And Solidarity - Between Black And Asian American Communities, Explained.” Vox, 16 Mar. 2021, www.vox.com/22321234/black-asian-american-tensions-solidarity-history, Accessed 7 Jun. 2021.

Hanna, Mary and Jeanne Batalova. “Immigrants from Asia in the United States.” 10 Mar. 2021, Migration Policy Institute, www.migrationpolicy.org/article/immigrants-asia-united-states-2020. Accessed 14 Jun. 2021.

Jailler, Fayida. “10 Countries You Don't Associate With Black History, But You Should.” Travel Noire, 20 Apr. 2021, www.travelnoire.com/countries-you-dont-associate-with-black-history. Accessed 15 Jun. 2021.

“First Arrivals, First Reactions.” US House of Representatives: History, Art, and Archives, www.history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/APA/Historical-Essays/Exclusion-and-Empire/First-Arrivals/. Accessed 7 Jun. 2021.

Hope, Jeanelle K. “This Tree Needs Water!: A Case Study on the Radical Potential of Afro-Asian Solidarity in the Era of Black Lives Matter,” Amerasia Journal, vol. 45, no. 2, 2019, pp. 22-37. 

Mahajan, Karan. “The Two Asian Americas.” The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2015, www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-two-asian-americas. Accessed 6 Jun. 2021.

Moon, Kat. “How A Shared Goal To Dismantle White Supremacy Is Fueling Black-Asian Solidarity.” Time, 25 Mar. 2021, www.time.com/5949926/black-asian-solidarity-white-supremacy/. Accessed 7 Jun. 2021.

 Nguyen, Viet Thanh. “The Beautiful, Flawed Fiction Of 'Asian American'.” The New York Times, 31 May 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/opinion/asian-american-AAPI-decolonization.html. Accessed 7 Jun. 2021.

 Rea, Tom. “The Rock Springs Massacre.” WyoHistory.org: A Project of the Wyoming State Historical Society, 8 Nov. 2014, www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/rock-springs-massacre. Accessed 7 Jun. 2021.

 Rhodes, Christopher. “The Lesser Known History Of Black-Asian Solidarity In America.” Blavity News and Politics, 22 Mar. 2021, www.blavity.com/the-lesser-known-history-of-black-asian-solidarity-in-america?category1=news&category2=culture&item=2. Accessed 6 Jun. 2021.

 Tang, Terry and Hannah Fingerhut. “AP-NORC Poll: More Americans Believe Anti-Asian Hate Rising.” AP News, 26 May. 2021, www.apnews.com/article/donald-trump-el-paso-texas-mass-shooting-racial-injustice-health-coronavirus-pandemic-. Accessed 6 Jun. 2021.

Wagner, Lindsay Peoples. “It’s Time to Talk About Black-Asian Solidarity. New York Magazine, 22 Mar. 2021, www.thecut.com/2021/03/black-asian-solidarity.html. Accessed 15 Jun. 2021. 

Documentaries:

Asian Americans. PBS, 2020. PBS, www.pbs.org/show/asian-americans/. Accessed 4 Jun. 2021.

“Aint’ Gonna Shuffle No More: 1964-72.” Eyes on the Prize, volume 6, episode 11, PBS, 2006. PBS, https://www.pbs.org/show/eyes-on-the-prize/. Accessed 4 Jun. 2021. 

Far East Deep South. PBS, 2021. PBS, www.fareastdeepsouth.com/. Accessed 4 Jun. 2021.

Podcasts:

Chow, Kat. “'Model Minority' Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks.” 

Code Switch, 19 Apr. 2017, NPR, www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks.

Jeong Perry, Alyssa. “One Korean American’s Reckoning.” Code Switch, 29 Jul. 2020, NPR, 

www.npr.org/2020/07/20/892974604/one-korean-americans-reckoning. Accessed 11 Jun. 2021.  

Maraji, Shareen Marisol. “A Letter From Young Asian-Americans To Their Families About Black Lives Matter.” Code Switch, 27 Jul. 2016, NPR, www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/07/27/487375314/a-letter-from-young-asian-americans-to-their-families-about-black-lives-matter.

“Un-HolyLand? An Arab Muslim Reckoning With Racism.” Code Switch, 20 Jul. 2020, NPR, www.npr.org/2020/07/20/892974522/un-holyland-an-arab-muslim-reckoning-with-racism. Accessed 10 Jun. 2021. 

Blogs: 

“Asian American Anti-Blackness Is Real--And So Is Our Responsibility to End It.” Densho Blog, 28 May 2020,   https://densho.org/asian-american-anti-blackness-is-real-and-so-is-our-responsibility-to-end-it/. Accessed 12 Jun. 2021.

Communities:

Asians for Black Lives https://a4bl.wordpress.com/who-we-are/.

Student Affairs Now: https://studentaffairsnow.com/equity-talk-equity-walk/. 

Unity and Solidarity for George Floyd: https://caalmn.org/api4georgefloyd/.

Additional Resources: 

The GREEN Program’s Fighting Racism & Injustice Open-Sourced Library:  http://bit.ly/tgp-stopasianhate 

The Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit: https://www.asianamtoolkit.org/the-toolkit

The Cross-Cultural Solidarity History Project: https://crossculturalsolidarity.com/black-asian-solidarity/

A Different Asian American Timeline: https://aatimeline.com/

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