Audience: Adult

  • Learning Together Through Reflections on the 9/11 Anniversary
    Learning Together Through Reflections on the 9/11 Anniversary

    This year marks the 20th anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001. As we reflect on this time together, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center is pleased to present new Learning Together resources about this anniversary, including two new videos in the We Are Not A Stereotype: Breaking down Asian Pacific American bias series.

  • Lesson Plans: Untold Civil Rights Stories Online
    Lesson Plans: Untold Civil Rights Stories Online

    Lesson plans for the following: George Takei: Leading Man, APPI Women Voices: Untold Stories Through Poetry; Freeing Ourselves From Prison Sweatshops: Thai Garment Workers Speak Out; United Farm Workers Movement: Philip Vera Cruz, Unsung Hero; Vincent Chin – Lily Chin: The Courage to Speak Out; A Family Educates to Prevent Hate Crimes: The Case of…

  • K-12 Asian American Curriculum – Professional Development Workshops
    K-12 Asian American Curriculum – Professional Development Workshops

    Access to the following workshops: Citizenship, Civil Rights, Elementary Education, Identity, Immigration, Racism, South Asian Americans, Stand Against Hatred

  • Teaching About Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia
    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.

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

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

  • Asian American Racism & Mental Health Resources
    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…

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

  • A New History of Asian America
    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…

  • We Are Not A Stereotype – Breaking Down Asian Pacific American Bias
    We Are Not A Stereotype – Breaking Down Asian Pacific American Bias

    The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center is proud to present We are not a stereotype, a video series for educators, by educators. This series explores and challenges the complexity surrounding the term Asian Pacific American, breaking it down into topics that span multiple timelines, geographies, and identities.

  • The Making of Asian America: A History
    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.

  • Addressing Anti-Asian Racism with Students
    Addressing Anti-Asian Racism with Students

    In April 2020, we interviewed Liz Kleinrock, an anti-bias educator and consultant based in Los Angeles, California. We interviewed Liz to learn more about how addressing or ignoring anti-Asian racism in our classrooms and communities can impact student learning