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Hot Topics: Race Relations: Asian Americans

Starting Points

Critical Issues Facing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Summary of AAPI issues from White House archives
Asian-Americans See Individuals' Prejudice As Big Discrimination Problem
NPR, 12/6/2017
Understanding Our Perceptions of Asian Americans
Overview essay from the Center for Global Education at Asia Society
Asian Americans Feel Held Back at Work by Stereotypes
The Atlantic, 1/26/2016
Key facts about Asian Americans, a diverse and growing population
Pew Research Center, 9/8/2017
The Uncomfortable Truth about Affirmative Action and Asian-Americans
The New Yorker, 8/10/2017
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage
A series of essays and articles from the National Park Service on Asian American and Pacific Islander history and culture
Asian American Experiences of Racism during COVID-19
From NYU : The Institute of Human Development and Social Change
Confronting the invisibility of anti-Asian racism
Brookings, 2022
Countering stereotypes about Asian Americans
American Psychological Association

Sampling of Recent Books in Fogler Library

Asianfail by Eleanor Ty
ISBN: 0252040880
Publication Date: 2017-03-21
Flashpoints for Asian American Studies by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (Editor); Viet Thanh Nguyen
ISBN: 9780823278619
Publication Date: 2017-10-03
Louder and Faster by Deborah Wong
ISBN: 9780520304529
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation by David L. Eng; Shinhee Han
ISBN: 9781478001256
Publication Date: 2019-02-15
Voices of Asian Americans in Higher Education by Festus E. Obiakor; Ying Hui-Michael
ISBN: 9781641134330
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Voting Together by Carolyn Wong
ISBN: 9780804782234
Publication Date: 2017-06-06
Where I Have Never Been by Patricia P. Chu
ISBN: 9781439902257
Publication Date: 2019-01-04
Growing up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction by Ymitri Mathison (Editor)
ISBN: 9781496815101
Publication Date: 2017-11-20
Desis Divided : The Political Lives of South Asian Americans by Sangay K. Mishra
Desi Hoop Dreams by Stanley I. Thangaraj
Aspiring to Home : South Asians in America by Bakirathi Mani
Publication Date: 2012-01-11

Statistics & Analysis

AAPIData.com
Demographic data and policy research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Facts for Features: Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Statistics and report from the U.S. Census Bureau, May 2021
Pew Research Center: Asian Americans
Statista
Search for statistical information
STAATUS Index Report, 2022
The STAATUS (Social Tracking of Asian Americans in the U.S.) Index is a comprehensive, annual assessment of attitudes and stereotypes of Asian Americans by a representative sample of adults from across the country.
Social Realities of Indian Americans: Results From the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2020

Asian American History

American History Unbound by Gary Y. Okihiro
ISBN: 9780520274358
Publication Date: 2015-08-25
The Color of Success by Ellen D. Wu
ISBN: 9780691157825
Publication Date: 2013-11-24
The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
ISBN: 9781476739403
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies by Cindy I-Fen Cheng (Editor)
ISBN: 9781317813910
Publication Date: 2016-12-08
Civil Rights in Wartime : the post-9/11 Sikh experience by Dawinder S. Sidhu; Neha Singh Gohil

In the News

Media

Agent Yellow.
Documentary.
Ameri-Pino: Recognizing Filipino Heritage in America
Documentary.
An Asian-American Story
Interview.
Long Story Short
Documentary.
Maineland
Documentary.
More or Less Chinese - the Asian Diaspora
Documentary series.
A Most Unlikely Hero
Documentary.
Nā Kamalei: The Men Of Hula
Documentary.
Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective
Podcasts.
Ted Talks: Why Asian Americans are not the Model Minority
Ted Talk.
To Be Takei
Documentary.
You Don't Know Jack: the Jack Soo Story
Documentary.

Helpful Websites & Organizations

Asian-Nation
Website developed and maintained by a UMass professor that explores a wide variety of topics related to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Asian American Coalition for Education
AACE fights for Asian-American children's equal education rights
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Asian Americans Advancing Justice
AAJC's mission is to advance civil and human rights for Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
The first and only national organization of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) workers
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
Center for Asian American Media
OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates
An organization dedicated to advancing the social, political, and economic well-being of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce
Stand Against Hatred
South Asian American Digital Archive
Hindu American Foundation