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Supervisor Joe Simitian | District 5
Supervisor Joe Simitian | District 5

Understanding Asian American and Pacific Islander Experience: Resource List

In addition to the three-panel series presented in May 2021, below is a list of resources available to further understanding of our diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.

This resource list is intended to be a starting point for learning more about the Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences and is not all encompassing of the many resources available to the community.

Websites

AAPI Data
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC
Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit
College Educated AAPI College Student Resources
Cornell University Anti-Racism Resources for the AAPI Community
Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
UCLA Asian American Studies Department
South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA):
NCAPA | National Council of Asian Pacific Americans
Stop AAPI Hate
UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Videos and film

Asian American Heroes and Allies | Honoring AAPI Stories
Asian Americans series on PBS
Korematsu Institute
Minari
Pacific Islander Poetry Playlist
The Chinese Exclusion Act | PBS - American Experience
Understanding #StopAsianHate | History & Context
We Need to Talk About Anti-Asian Hate

Podcasts

Asian Americana Asian American culture and history
Asian Enough
At the Moment: Asian American News
Self-Evident: Asian America’s Stories

Courses

Bystander Intervention Training
CAIR Identifying and Interrupting Microaggressions Workshop:

Bay Area Destinations

Chinese American Historical Museum
Chinese Cultural Garden
Hakone Estate and Gardens (Saratoga)
Japanese American Museum of San Jose:
“Nihonmachi” | Japantown San Jose

Books

Santa Clara County Library District Recommended Reading for All Ages: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

America Is In The Heart by Carlos Bulosan

Asian American Dreams by Helen Zia

China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry by Paula Yoo

I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita

It Began With a Page by Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Managing Multicultural Lives: Asian Americans and the Challenge of Multiple Identities and Asian America by Pawan Dhingra

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

Multiracial Identity and Racial Politics in the United States by Natalie Masuoka

Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee

Strangers from a Different Shore by Ronald Takaki

The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee

The Myth of the Model Minority by Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin

The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion and Immigration by Natalie Masuoka and Jane Junn

This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steve Scott

Yellow Peril! edited by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats

Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank Wu