Audience: Adult

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  Strangers From a Distant Shore

  A powerful and moving history of Asian Americans that spans centuries, from the acclaimed author of A Different Mirror.

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  The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History

  After emerging from the tumult of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the field of Asian American studies has enjoyed rapid and extraordinary growth. Nonetheless, many aspects of Asian American history still remain open to debate. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History offers the first comprehensive commentary on the state of the field,…

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  Asian American History: A Short Introduction

  Madeline Y. Hsu weaves a fascinating historical narrative of this “American Dream.” She shows how Asian American success, often attributed to innate cultural values, is more a result of the immigration laws, which have largely pre-selected immigrants of high economic and social potential. Asian Americans have, in turn, been used by politicians to bludgeon newer…

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  The Making of Asian America: A History

  A “comprehensive…fascinating” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans.

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  A New History of Asian America

  A New History of Asian America is a fresh and up-to-date history of Asians in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on current scholarship, Shelley Lee brings forward the many strands of Asian American history, highlighting the distinctive nature of the Asian American experience while placing the narrative in…

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  Bystander Intervention Training – The 5 D’s of Bystander Intervention

  Hollaback! provides trainings on how to do your part to protect your neighbors and co-workers when bias and harassment collide in front of you.

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  Asian American Racism & Mental Health Resources

  Our Center is proud to join this movement with a focus on the area we know best: mental health. Racial trauma is real. It makes the world feel less safe and causes emotional and physical problems. Yet far too often, victims of racial trauma struggle in shame and silence, or even have their pain invalidated…

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  Beyond the Golden Rule: A Parent’s Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice

  Talking to your kids about tolerence and allyship, a guide for children of all ages

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  ‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’: The Impact of Microaggressions on the AAPI Community

  Psychiatrist Dr. Warren Ng discusses the historical roots of microaggressions, how they can lead to physical assaults, and the mental health toll they take on Asian Americans.

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  Teaching About Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia

  There are an abundance of resources available for educators to use to talk in their classroom about anti-Asian racism and xenophobia. The majority of resources below discuss how the coronavirus has fueled racism against Asian Americans, but there is plenty of helpful information for teaching your students about this topic generally.

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  Pachinko

  A saga about four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from their home.

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  Minor Feelings

  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness