Asian American Resources
Videos
Asian American Voices, The 1990 Institute
This is an educational channel designated for learners and educators, part of the 1990 Institute's Voices, Visibility and Vision video program. The playlist contains original short videos of 3-15 minutes focused on factual and researched information to highlight different aspects of Modern China and US - China Relations. Each asset is accompanied by a reference page with curated external sources of information.
100 Years of Immigration to the U.S. 1919-2019, Animated Stats
Animated Statistics, Statistics, Stats, Racing Bar Chart, Charts, Rankings
Asian Americans, PBS Series
Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that delivers a bold, fresh perspective on a history that matters today, more than ever. As America becomes more diverse, and more divided while facing unimaginable challenges, how do we move forward together? Told through intimate personal stories, the series will cast a new lens on U.S. history and the ongoing role that Asian Americans have played.
The Transcontinental Railroad, PBS
Documentary of the now famous Transcontinental Railroad marked by its connection at Promontory Summit, Utah.
A Filipino American Story Since 1587
An animated video presenting the pivotal moments of courage, sacrifice, and triumphs of Filipino Americans since 1587 and how they paved the way for the current generation shaping the future today. The video series is produced by NEXTDAYBETTER on Filipino diaspora.
Journey through the treacherous and brave path of the Asian Americans who came to the U.S. before us. At times, arriving freely and by choice. At times, arriving forcibly; coerced; out of necessity. And for decades, excluded and barred from entry. Sometimes with a choice to stay, sometimes with no choice but to stay. Through the lens of the earliest surviving films and the eyes and pens of historical illustrators and photographers, see how, together as a community, they endured politics, imperialism, capitalistic development, and xenophobia. How their tenacity helped shape immigrant rights, not just for Asian Americans, but for many who are citizens of America today. This Reference Library page provides the background materials for each chapter as well as a ready-to-use downloadable Lesson Guide.
Journey through the treacherous and brave path of the Asian Americans who came to the U.S. before us. At times, arriving freely and by choice. At times, arriving forcibly; coerced; out of necessity. And for decades, excluded and barred from entry. Sometimes with a choice to stay, sometimes with no choice but to stay. Through the lens of the earliest surviving films and the eyes and pens of historical illustrators and photographers, see how, together as a community, they endured politics, imperialism, capitalistic development, and xenophobia. How their tenacity helped shape immigrant rights, not just for Asian Americans, but for many who are citizens of America today. This Reference Library page provides the background materials for each chapter as well as a ready-to-use downloadable Lesson Guide.
Genealogy Series: Historic Census Bureau Sources for Asian American Pacific Islanders (May 2022) Genealogy Series, 7 of 7:Historic Census Bureau Sources for Filipino, Guamanian and Chamorro, American Samoan, and Native Hawaiian Research by Christopher Martin, historian with the U.S. Census Bureau.
Why the US has so many Filpino nurses, Vox
This video examines the history of U.S. colonialism and how it shapes the supply of healthcare labor pool.
Bookstores and Book Lists
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and Scholastic is proud to celebrate AAPI voices. Check out the list of 25 AAPI-owned bookstores that you should support this month (and all year long) when looking for your next read.
AACP's mission is to educate the public about the great diversity of the Asian American experiences through the books distributed; foster cultural awareness, educate Asian Americans about their own heritage, and instill a sense of pride. AACP believes that the knowledge which comes from the use of appropriate materials can accomplish these goals.
APALA is formally affiliated with the American Library Association (ALA). Originally organized as a discussion group of the ALA office for Library Outreach Services, now it is committed to working together toward a common goal: to create an organization that would address the needs of Asian Pacific American librarians and those who serve Asian Pacific American communities. Check out their rubric to evaluate Asian American and Pacific Islander youth literature, and Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, whose goal is to honor and recognize individual work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit.
Compiled by Kyung Cho, Victoria Meng, Sophie Oberfield, Annie Thoms, and Shreya Vora, October 25, 2021, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) invited five NYC educators to discuss teaching Asian American literature and using it to help students understand 9/11 and its ripple effects
Each year, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) recognizes authors and contributors in its book awards for titles of merit published in history, social science, creative writing, and humanities and cultural studies.
Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) promotes awareness of the best books of Chinese topics or literature written by authors of Chinese descent, in English or Chinese language, that are originally published in North America
Gold House Book Club curates a book list every 2 seasons with a focus on a specific theme for early and middle school readers such as resilience and identity
Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Reading List. Book recommendations for adults, children and teens that spotlight a range of experience within the AANHPI communities.
Compiled by Noreen Naseem Rodriguez, PhD, our speaker of the 2023 Teachers Workshop on Teaching Asian American Narratives with Literature.
SocialJusticeBooks.org is a project of Teaching for Change, which critically reviewed selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators.
The South Asia National Outreach Consortium (SANOC) offers a yearly book award to encourage and commend authors and publishers who produce high-quality children and young adult books, and provide librarians and teachers with recommendations for educational use, such as K-12 Lessons plans to incorporate SABA books into the classroom.
The Very Asian Foundation, in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, launched The May Book Project to help schools and libraries build and maintain robust Asian American youth literature collections for all readers.
Resources for the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 2001 -- portraying Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage. Sponsored by Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA).
Books
A Different Mirror for Young People, A history of Multicultural America, Ronald Takaki, Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity.
Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Zinn's A People's History, Takaki's A Different Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story. A Study Guide can be found here. Rebecca Stefoff adopted the book for Young People.
This groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the junctures that shocked Asian Americans into motion and shaped a new consciousness, including the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, by two white autoworkers who believed he was Japanese; the apartheid-like working conditions of Filipinos in the Alaska canneries; the boycott of Korean American greengrocers in Brooklyn; the Los Angeles riots; and the casting of non-Asians in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon. The book also examines the rampant stereotypes of Asian Americans.
Asian America, a primary source reader, 2017. Edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, K. Scott Wong and Jason Oliver Chang
An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a wide range of fields, from law to visual culture to politics, covering key historical and cultural developments that enable students to engage directly with the Asian American experience over the past century. The primary sources, organized around keywords, often concern multiple hemispheres and movements, making this compendium valuable for a number of historical, ethnic, and cultural study undergraduate programs.
Mountain Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies, Edited by Russell Jeung, Karen Umemoto, Harvey Dong, Eric Mar, Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani, and Arnold Pan
This book shares the narratives of nine remarkable students. For each of these Asian Americans, their ethnic heritages and racialized experiences, their family backgrounds, their education, and the social movements of their day intersected so that they became agents of change. Specifically, they organized and mobilized fellow students and community members to establish and further Asian American Studies (AAS) on their campuses. AAS has since grown not only to offer a relevant curriculum for and about these students, but also to help develop and empower their communities. With accounts of the development of AAS at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley, and UCLA, Mountain Movers highlights how students have changed the course of history.
Online resources available online at: https://www.aasc.ucla.edu/aascpress/mm/
Discounted copies available (both print and ebook) at: http://commerce.cashnet.com/aasc (please see discounted copies under “Course Materials” section).
ROOTS_InternalDraft_Sample.pdfRoots: An Asian American Reader (new edition forthcoming), Edited by Amy Tachiki, Eddie Wong, Franklin Odo, and Buck Wong
Roots: An Asian American Reader was the first of over 200 books that the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press has produced in the past 35 years. Intended for college classroom use, Roots was the standard textbook for Asian American Studies courses throughout the nation for many years, and went through twelve printings, and sold over 50,000 copies. A mix of essays, poems, and scholarly and political pieces, it was also the first published anthology focused on Asian Americans. A new edition is forthcoming with new introductory essays by the original editors. Learn more about Roots at: aasc.ucla.edu/aascpress/books/roots.aspx
Click the picture to the left to access a preview of the reader!
Vanessa Unmuted, UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Part of UCLA AASC’s online AAPI Storybooks, Vanessa Unmuted was developed in response to the increase in attacks against Asian Americans that arose as Chinese were wrongly blamed for the COVID-19 pandemic. There were over 6,600 incidents reported to the #StopAAPIHate online reporting site in the first year of the pandemic alone. Vanessa Unmuted centers on the types of incidents that are more commonly found in K-12 schools. It was developed in collaboration with the Los Angeles Unified School District Koreatown Pico-Union Community of Schools and the May 19 Project. Available for free online at: https://aapistorybooks.org/vanessaunmuted/home/
The Making of Asian American: a History by Erika Lee
The Making of Asian America shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life, from sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500 to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. But as Lee shows, Asian Americans have continued to struggle as both "despised minorities" and "model minorities," revealing all the ways that racism has persisted in their lives and in the life of the country. Published fifty years after the passage of the United States' Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, these "powerful Asian American stories...are inspiring, and Lee herself does them justice in a book that is long overdue" (Los Angeles Times ). But more than that, The Making of Asian America is an "epic and eye-opening" ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune ) new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now, 2022. by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu
A vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which our culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped our community into who we are today.
A vivid scrapbook of voices, emotions, and memories from an era in which our culture was forged and transformed, and a way to preserve both the headlines and the intimate conversations that have shaped our community into who we are today.
Yellow by Frank Wu
A journalist, scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect race relations in the twenty-first century. Wu examines affirmative action, globalization, immigration, and other controversial contemporary issues through the lens of the Asian-American experience. Mixing personal anecdotes, legal cases, and journalistic reporting, Wu confronts damaging Asian-American stereotypes such as "the model minority" and "the perpetual foreigner." By offering new ways of thinking about race in American society, Wu's work dares us to make good on our great democratic experiment.
A journalist, scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect race relations in the twenty-first century. Wu examines affirmative action, globalization, immigration, and other controversial contemporary issues through the lens of the Asian-American experience. Mixing personal anecdotes, legal cases, and journalistic reporting, Wu confronts damaging Asian-American stereotypes such as "the model minority" and "the perpetual foreigner." By offering new ways of thinking about race in American society, Wu's work dares us to make good on our great democratic experiment.
Untold Civil Rights Stories, Edited by Stewart Kwoh and Russell C. Leong
In 2009, Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles (Advancing Justice - LA), then called Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC), and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center jointly edited and published Untold Civil Rights Stories, the first national guide of its kind for students, teachers, and communities. This guide was a unique educational partnership between one of the nation's foremost advocates of civil rights and social justice for Asian Americans and others, Advancing Justice - LA, and the nation's leading research center and department on Asian Americans, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center (UCLA AASC). The main purpose of the book is to identify and honor those individuals of Asian descent who were, and are, heroes in the struggle for civil rights and social justice. Available for free online at https://www.aasc.ucla.edu/untoldcivilrights/default.aspx
Podcasts
Podcast series on Building a Collective American Dream. This podcast series dives deeply into AAUC's vision in creating Unity among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to build our collective American Dream.
Asian American, The Ken Fong Podcast
This podcast spotlights the manifold faces and facets of the diverse Asian American community.
A podcast by Gen and Ted Lai and dives into the vast history of Asian Pacific Americans from their contributions to their struggles to their triumphs.
Asian Enough, Los Angeles Times.
A podcast about being Asian American -- the joys, the complications and everything in between.
Dear Asian Americans, Just Like Media
Dear Asian Americans is a podcast for and by Asian Americans, focusing on authentic storytelling rooted in origin, identity, and legacy. Host Jerry Won brings on guests from diverse backgrounds and career paths to celebrate, support, and inspire the Asian American community. New episodes air every Tuesday across all major platforms.
Oral History Digital Archive, National Indo-American Museum
A collection of oral history recordings documenting the stories of the Indian American immigrants who settled in the Chicago area.
Saturday School is a podcast where we teach your unwilling children about Asian American pop culture history. Bew eousides are rekeased on Saturyday mornings at 8am.
That Desi Spark, ANA Entertainment LLC
Podcast created by three founders who recognized a space void of color and conversation around the topics that impact dual-identity, South Asian millennials the most.
Lesson Guides/Plans
Teachers Resources for a more accurate and inclusive migration and immigration Narrative, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institute, for high school teachers and students.
AAEP provides K-12 curriculum lessons for teachers and school districts to teach AAPI history as a core part of American history classes.
The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University seeks to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on the Transcontinental Railroad helped to shape the physical and social landscape of the American West.
SPICE has created four lessons for high school audiences that draw upon research and findings from the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project. Teachers may deliver all four modules in the order listed below, or may deliver any one lesson as a stand-alone unit.
Facing History Asian American Resources
Part of the overall Facing History and Ourselves portal focused on Asian American, using education to combat racism.
National Archives - Educator Resources
Explore primary sources and use the portal's teaching activites. Also have presidential libaries also have programs designed to introduce students to American history and the Presidency and to inform teachers about the use of primary source documents in teaching history.
The Orange Story on Japanese American History
Resources compiled for use in conjunction with The Orange Story. The material has been organized by chapter and includes links to relevant curricula, other resources, and discussion questions. These resources are intended primarily for general audiences and a wide range of grade levels, unless specified otherwise.
A treasure trove of lesson plans and teaching resources leveraging the best Stanford scholarship to promote student inquiry, empathy, critical thinking skills, and multiple perspectives, and to foster global understanding. Resources span all Asian American communities.
Provide resources for the Sikh community as well for eductors (Elementary, Middle/High School and adminstors) about teaching sikhism
Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month Lesson Plans - Sign up required.
This is a time of year for educators and parents to provide an opportunity to share the contributions and achievements of individuals from these communities in all aspects of society, including politics, sports, science, the arts, and more. It’s also a chance to educate people about the history of discrimination and racism faced by these communities, and the ongoing challenges they still face today. Teaching children about AANHPI Month can help prevent the perpetuation of harmful stereotypes and discrimination by promoting empathy, understanding, and acceptance. By starting these conversations early, we can create a generation of young people who are equipped with the knowledge and skills to build a more inclusive and equitable future.
This is the definitive publication about the history and context to anti-Asian hate crimes, from Vincent Chin to the present, with discussion questions created by the Smithsonian Institution and a parallel history of civil rights in America, through the struggles, leadership, and sacrifice of Black American, wth historical annotations about Asian Americans.
aaaaathe YURI creates education resources and experiences. THey help educators tell a more complet narrative of history, aiming to build coalitions and understandings across diverse communities. Material tarted for PK-12 students, teachers, and cultural institutions, creating curricula on Asian American histories and stories.
Activities
Chinatown History & Art Tour (C.H.A.T) is a unique walking tour of San Francisco's Chinatown that explores living Asian American history. Find out why Chinatown looks the way it does and why the distinct architecture is symbolic of the neighborhood's resiliency. Learn about the rich history, architecture, and contemporary art that has emerged in the community. You will leave this tour with a deeper understanding of Bay Area history and a multifaceted perspective on Chinatown culture.
Taking in the sights of Japantown is an easy, scenic walk. Stroll at your own pace, wandering bustling Post Street and lingering along pedestrian-friendly Osaka Way (Buchanan Mall) or choose a more organized tour for a fascinating history lesson. Enhance your walk with the interpretive signs marking The San Francisco Japantown History Walk. The self-guided tour takes visitors from the beginnings of Nihonmachi to present day Japan Center. Historic photos along with informative text tell the stories of the first Japanese immigrants and the community they built in the city’s Western Addition after the 1906 earthquake. Early Japanese Americans shaped a vibrant neighborhood of stores, restaurants, churches and temples, even theaters. The history walk also traces the unjust evacuation of Japanese American residents during WWII and their efforts to pick up the pieces of their lives after returning from the internment camps.
The mission of the Locke Foundation is to educate the public about Locke’s history and legacy. The town of Locke, California, was built in 1915 by Chinese immigrants from Heungshan [Xiangshan] County (modern day Zhongshan), in Guangdong Province, China. The historic district is located in the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta, a large agricultural area in Sacramento County, California. The Locke Historic District is the largest, most complete example of a rural, agricultural Chinese American community in the United States.
Locke was the last of the Sacramento River Chinatowns to be built and became a thriving Chinese community serving the area's workforce, which consisted mainly of Chinese laborers working in the asparagus fields.
A field trip not to be missed.
Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center, Building 640
In the presidio of San Francisco, along Crissy Fileds, building 640 stand the National Japaneese American Historical Society and the military intelligence service historical learning center. This exhibit show the site and the era during WWII when the Japanese were singled out as potential "spies", when 2/3 were American citizens, born and rasied in the US.
One month before the attach on Pearl Harbor, the US, Army recruited Japanese American soliders for secret military intellence, training them at this site in San Francisco. So when the EO 9066 came down, these Japanese American solders' families were incarcerated in camps, these solders served their country.
Statistics and surveys
A nationally recognized publisher of demographic data and policy research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, with hundreds of news mentions in national and local outlets. Our reputation is built on data and research that is accurate, compelling, and timely. In addition to our news impact, community organizations, government agencies, and decisionmakers regularly reach out to us, to better understand key aspects of AAPI communities.
This non-profit's mission is to engage and empower Asian Americas to fight racism, increase representation,and share community resources. Please see the most recent, 2022 STAATUS - index report which focuses on the perceptions of Asian Americans in America.
2020 Indian American Attiudes Survey
This study is the third in a series on the social, political, and foreign policy attitudes of Indian Americans. The first, released in October 2020, explored the political attitudes and preferences of Indian Americans in advance of the November 2020 U.S. presidential election. The second, published in February 2021, explored how Indian Americans view changes underway in Indian politics. The third was released in June, 2021
Pew Research Center - On Asian Americans
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. They do not take policy positions. They generate a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and supports sound decision-making. They are nonprofit, nonpartisan and nonadvocacy. They value independence, objectivity, accuracy, rigor, humility, transparency and innovation.
On August 2, 2022, Pew research launced his analysis after conducteing the largest focus group to talk about "What it means to be Asians in America"
Now in its third year, the 2023 STAATUS Index survey continues to serve as the leading national study of American attitudes towards the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.
is a U.S.-based coalition dedicated to ending racism and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAs & PIs). As the nation’s largest reporting center tracking anti-AAPI hate acts, their coalition publishes data insights and research findings to paint a vivid and nuanced picture of racism and other forms of bigotry as it is experienced by our communities. They also launched a national campaign, Stop the Blame, to end anti-Asian scapegoating.
Articles and white papers
Chinese Immigration and Contract Labor in the Late Nineteenth Century. by Patricia Clud and Dave Galenson.
This paper considers why the Chinese migrants who came to California in the
late 19th century were not indentured, and what their contractual status in the
United States actually was. It includes congressional testimony and Chinese comments about the labor arrangements.
10 things about Hmong culutre, food and language you probably didn't know, 2015, MPR News
Sunisa Lee, the Olympic Gold Medialist gymnast, brought attention to the Hmong American community. It has been almost 50 years since the Hmong people first begin arriving in Minnesota. What do you know about the Hmong community?
Historical Societies
The Chinese Historical Society of America collects, preserves, and illuminates the history of Chinese in America by serving as a center for research, scholarship, and learning to inspire a greater appreciation for, and knowledge of, their collective experience through exhibitions, public programs, and any other means for reaching the widest audience.
its mission is "To promote understanding, education, enlightenment, appreciation, and enrichment through the identification, gathering, preservation and dissemination of the history and culture of Filipino Americans in the United States." It provides curriculum guides for teachers. It has 40 chapters around the country.
Founded in 1985, the Korean American Historical Society (KAHS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the collective memory of Korean Americans through collecting, maintaining, and transmitting the heritage and achievements of Koreans living in the United States and abroad.
dedicated to the collection, preservation, authentic interpretation, and sharing of historical information of the Japanese American experience. In San Francisco MIS Historical Learning Center - WWII stories about Japanese, Gallery open in the Presidio. We are all Americans - Social Studies Curriculum for Seaondary Students (PW: Americans). This curriculum is co-sponsored by the National Japanese American Historical Society and the National Park Service.
Community organizations
An educational website that seeks to broaden public awareness of the history and continuing significance of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 through three initiatives: Building nationally focused collaborations by organizing an annual symposium; recording oral history; and promoting curriculum content and resources.
Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies | University of California, Berkeley
The Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies (AAADS) Program, one of the programs under the Department of Ethnic Studies, is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of historical and contemporary experiences of Asian-ancestry groups in local, national, and global contexts. Asian American is a pan-ethnic term designating a racialized population made up of various groups of Asian ancestry and encompassing both the foreign-born and the U.S.-born.
Asian Art Museum Education Portal
Where experiences of Asian and Asian American art and cultures inspire and connect us all. The Asian Art Museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes Asian and Asian American art and cultures for local and global audiences. We provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen understanding and empathy among people of all backgrounds. They have an education department and during non-COVID times, provide classroom visits.
Asia Society is a leading global and pan-Asian organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of the United States and Asia. They seek to increase knowledge and enhance dialogue, encourage creative expression, and generate new ideas across the fields of arts and culture, policy and business, and education.
From its establishment in 1997 as an initiative critical to the mission of the Smithsonian until today, the vision for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center has been to enrich the American Story with the voices of Asian Pacific Americans.
Calisphere: The Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA)
Archive by the University of California's digital collections containing thousands of primary sources documenting Japanese American internment.
Committee of 100 is a non-partisan leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans in business, government, academia, and the arts. Its purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in the dual mission of:
Promoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community;
Advancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China
See their recent information on K-12 AAPI and Ethnic Stuides in the US. From Foundations to Frontiers is a Economist Intelligence Unit report that examines the multi-faceted Chinese American contributions to US society historically and presently.
Densho documents the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished. We offer these irreplaceable firsthand accounts, coupled with historical images and teacher resources, to explore principles of democracy. Check out the lesson plan, Tide Goes out
Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS)
The purposes of the Filipino American National Historical Society are to conduct research and studies; gather, promote, and disseminate published works on Filipino American history; provide a repository for research and gathered materials; create exhibits; promote and hold forums and public programs; and sponsor fundraising events to accomplish these purposes.
Japanese American National Museum (JANM): Educational Resources
JANM offers a variety of activities, visuals, video resources, and printable
curriculums about the Japanese American experience. The site also offers virtual visits.
The nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute seeks to improve immigration and integration policies through authoritative research and analysis, opportunities for learning and dialogue, and the development of new ideas to address complex policy questions.
This is an Instangram project of the 1990 Institute. Twice weekly we shine a spotlight on an Asian American figure to highligh the Asian American stories and wonders.
Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)
MOCA redefines the American narrative one story at a time and was named one of America’s Cultural Treasures.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. They do not take policy positions. This link is specific to the Asian American surveys and data they compiled, a treature troll of data.
South Asian American Digital Archive
A community based culture change organization to ensure that South Asian Americans are part of the American story and history.
The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC) is a migratory museum that shares Asian Pacific American history, art, and culture through innovative museum experiences online and throughout the U.S.
Since 1997, the Asian Pacific American Center has created, coordinated and partnered with hundreds of Asian Pacific American initiatives across the Institution ranging from collections, exhibits, cultural festivals, public programs, research, fellowships and internships.
Nationally recognized for creating dynamic, community-driven exhibitions and programs. Wing Luke Museum offers an authentic and unique perspective on the American story. They provide guided neighborhood tours and events that will encourage you to discover stories and tastes both on and off the beaten path.
Between 1910 and 1940, approximately 500,000 immigrants crossed the Pacific Ocean for a chance at a new life in America. Angel Island is an island in San Francisco Bay. The entire island is included within Angel Island State Park, administered by California State Parks. For many immigrants from Asian this is the first stop and the entry to the land of their dreams. Take a tour and visit the immigration living quarters. Angel Island Immigration Station will provide some eye-opening experiences for visitors of all ages. A virtual tour is also available