Resources and Further Reading:
Asian American Educational Resources
COLUMBUS-BASED GROUPS
Ohio Progressive Asian Women’s Leadership (OPAWL)
https://www.opawl.org/about/
Asian American Association (AAA) at the Ohio State University
https://www.facebook.com/aaaohiostate/
Asian American Community Services (AACS), Central Ohio
https://www.aacsohio.org/home
Ohio Asian American Pacific Islander Advisory Council
List of Community Contacts (Educational Institutions, National Groups, Community Organizations, and Faith-Based Organizations): https://aapi.ohio.gov/resources/communityContacts.stm
WEBSITES
Social Justice Books: A Teaching for Change Project https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/asian-americans/
Dear Educators, it is Time to Fight for Asian America by Wayne Au and Moé Yonamine
https://rethinkingschools.org/2021/03/23/dear-educators-it-is-time-to-fight-for-asian-america/
Teaching Asian American History through Children's Literature NCSS 2016 presentation by Noreen Naseem Rodriguez, Iowa State University
Learning for Justice: Addressing Anti-Asian Bias
https://www.learningforjustice.org/the-moment/march-15-2021-addressing-antiasian-bias
Asian Americans in the People’s History of the United States
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/asian-americans-and-moments-in-peoples-history/
CONTINUING EDUCTION
History:
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats
Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People by Helen Zia
Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers by Frank Chin, Jeffrey Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Wong
A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald T.Takaki – for YA
Teaching:
Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans: Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities by Edith Wen Chen and Glenn Omatsu
Theory:
The Melancholy of Race by Anne Anlin Cheng
The Myth of the Model Minority by Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin
Immigrant Acts: on Asian American Cultural Politics by Lisa Lowe
Race and Gender:
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion by Piyali Bhattacharya
Activism:
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs and Scott Kurashige
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
Memoir:
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
Living for a Change: An Autobiography by Grace Lee Boggs
Other Non-Fiction:
The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang
The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I’ve Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance by Matt Ortile
Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
POP CULTURE
Fiction:
Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction by Jessica Hagedorn
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Science Fiction:
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
FOR KIDS
It Began with a Page by Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho and Dung Ho
Hot, Hot Roti for Dada-ji by F. Zia and Ken Min
Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao by Kat Zhang and Charlene Chua
Mina vs. the Monsoon by Rukhsanna Guidroz and Debasmita Dasgupta
Ohana Means Family by Ilima Loomis and Kenard Pak
FOR YOUNG ADULTS
This Time Will Be Different by Misa Sugiura
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, and Ross Ishikawa
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo
PODCASTS
*Asian American History 101—Family Friendly
Dear Asian Americans
Asian Boss Girl
Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast
Asian Enough
Asian Glow Podcast
YOUTUBE
PBS Voices: A People’s History of Asian America
SOCIAL MEDIA PAGES
Instagram:
#Asians4BlackLives @asians4blklives
Ricefeed @ricefeed
Angry Asian Activist @asianactiviist
Jenny Wang, PhD @asiansformentalhealth
Asian Americans for BLM @asianamericansforblm
Yilan @asian.actiivist
Asian Girls Unite #BLM @asiangirlsunite
Vienna Rye @vrye
Carolyn Kang @carolynkang
Asians Never Die @asiansneverdie
A Perpetual Foreigner @aperpetualforeigner
Angela // Find Your Fork @findyourfork