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- Anti-Racism Resources for the AAPI Communityfrom Asian American Studies Program, list of online articles and resources.
- Prof. Derek Chang on anti-API bias.Podcast of May 4, 2021 episode of All Things Equal on WHCU radio.
- Out and Asian: How Undocu/DACAmented Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Youth Navigate Dual Liminality in the Immigrant Rights MovementOpen access article by Loan Thi Dao, Asian American studies Program, U. Mass., 30 June 2017.
- Angry Asian ManBlog about Asian America with comments and articles from men and women on their Asian-American experience; podcasts; photo gallery.
- Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today by [The two volumes cover] the major issues confronting the Asian American community as a whole, and the specific ethnic identities within that community -- from established groups to newer groups such as Cambodian and Hmong Americans. The volumes offer 110 entries on the current state of affairs.. and outlooks for future for Asian Americans. The set is divided into 11 thematic sections including diversity and demographics; education; health; identity; immigrants, refugees, and citizenship; law; media; politics; war; work and economy; youth, family, and the aged.Call Number: E184.A75 E53 2010 + (REF; in Asia reading room)Publication Date: 2010 ( Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press)
- Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities byPublication Date: 2021 (Philadelphia : Temple University Press)(Also in print, E184 A75 N565 2021) erin KhuĂȘ Ninh considers the factors that drove college imposters such as Azia Kim (who pretended to be a Stanford freshman), and Jennifer Pan (who hired a hitman to kill her parents before they found out she had never received her high school diploma) to extreme lengths to appear successful. These outlier examples prompt Ninh to address the larger issue of the pressures and difficulties of striving to be model minority, where failure is too ruinous to admit. [The book] insists that being a "model minority" is not a "myth," but coded into one's programming as an identity....and that the true cost of turning children into high-achieving professionals may be higher than anyone can bear.
- Straight A's: Asian American College Students in Their Own Words byCall Number: LC2633.6 .S77 2018 (online also: click on title)Publication Date: 2018 (Durham : Duke University Press)In Straight A's Asian American students at Harvard reflect on their common experiences with discrimination, immigrant communities, their relationships to their Asian heritage, and their place in the university. They also explore the difficulties of living up to family expectations and the real-world effects of the "model minority" stereotype. Their examinations of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and culture directly speak to the Asian American experience in U.S. higher education.
- Beyond the Icon byCall Number: PN6714 .B49 2022 (in Olin Library)Publication Date: 2022""By looking at storytelling, form, and style in graphic novels and comics such as Ms. Marvel, George Takei's They Called Us Enemy, Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do, Gene Luen Yang's The Shadow Hero, and others, this volume demonstrates how Asian American creators in the twenty-first century employ graphic narrative to show Asian Americans as complex, nuanced individuals"
- Love Your Asian Body:AIDS activism in Los Angeles byCall Number: RA643.84.C2 W38 2021Publication Date: 2021 (Seattle : University of Washington Press)The AIDS crisis reshaped life in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s and radicalized a new generation of queer Asian Americans with a broad vision of health equity and sexual freedom. Even amid the fear and grief, Asian American AIDS activists created an infrastructure of care that centered the most stigmatized and provided diverse immigrant communities with the health resources and information they needed.
- Pedagogies of Woundedness Illness, Memoir, and the Ends of the Model Minority byCall Number: RA448.5.A83 L44 2022 (in Mann Library)Publication Date: 2022 (Philadelphia : Temple University Press)"The pressures Asian Americans feel to be socially and economically exceptional include an unspoken mandate to always be healthy. Nowhere is this more evident than in the expectation for Asian Americans to enter the field of medicine, principally as providers of care rather than those who require care. [This book] explores what happens when those considered model minorities critically engage with illness and medicine whether as patients or physicians. James Kyung-Jin Lee considers how popular culture often positions Asian Americans as medical authorities and what that racial characterization means.
- Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South byPublication Date: 2013 (Urbana : University of Illinois Press)Extending the understanding of race and ethnicity in the South beyond the prism of black-white relations, this interdisciplinary collection explores the growth, impact, and significance of rapidly growing Asian American populations in the American South. Some essays attend to the nuanced ways in which Asian Americans negotiate the dominant black and white racial binary, while others provoke readers to reconsider the supposed cultural isolation of the region...
- Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism byCall Number: E184.A75 W45 2020Publication Date: 2020 (Asian American women on skin color and colorism)Heartfelt personal accounts from Asian American women on their experiences with skin color bias, from being labeled "too dark" to becoming empowered to challenge beauty standards. In Whiter, thirty Asian American women provide first-hand accounts of their experiences with colorism in this collection of powerful, accessible, and brutally honest essays. Featuring contributors of many ages, nationalities, and professions...
- Asian American Delinquents and Gangs byCall Number: HV6439.U5 H56 2018Publication Date: 2018 (Beau Bassin, Mauritius : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing)..."we begin with a review of the standard explanations for delinquency and gang activity that have been offered by academics... we then work through these explanations by providing accounts by individuals in Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, Korean and Indian communities. Some of the conventional explanations appear to be less important in these communities, but others take on more prominence."
- Asian American Feminisms byCall Number: E 184 A75 A8277 2013Publication Date: 2013 (London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group ; Tokyo : Edition Synapse)4 vols Vol.1 contains historical and contemporary memoirs, essays, fiction, and stories that reveal the diversity of Asian American women's experience with themes such as freedom, labour, domesticity, sexuality, self-actualization, liberalism, nationalism, family, language, and coalition. The following three volumes place research from history, literature, law, sociology, popular culture, psychology, new media, and visual culture into interdisciplinary dialogue.