Resources

Learn more about Asian representation and the Asian-American experience.

Asians in the Arts

AAPI HISTORY, IDENTITY, AND CURRENT DAY ISSUES

BOOKS

  • The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
  • Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader eds Jean Y Wu and Thomas C Chen
  • The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams
  • War, Gender and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work by Cathy Schlund Vials
  • The Karma of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad
  • Forever Struggle: Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston’s Chinatown, 1880-2018 by Michael Liu
  • Minor Feelings by Cathy Hong Park
  • The Third Reconstruction by Reverend Dr. William Barber

POETRY & MUSIC

VIDEOS, FILMS, PODCASTS

BY AGE

CHILDREN, YOUNG LEARNERS

Collections
Titles
  • The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
  • Eyes that Kiss at the Corners by Joanna Ho
  • My Footprints by Bao Phi
  • Drawn Together by Minh Le
  • Grandpa Grumps by Katrina Moore
  • Fish for Jimmy by Katie Yamasaki
  • Coolies by Yin
  • Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist by Julie Leung
  • Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide by Icy Smith
  • Grandfather’s Story Cloth by Linda Gerdner & Sarah Langford. (Text in English & Hmong)
  • It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear, Julie Morstad
What does racism have to do with me? Asian American kids get talking… (read aloud video/book and accompanying workbook) Adapted by Katie Yue-Sum Li

YOUNG ADULTS

  • Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lai
  • Year of the Rat by Grace Lin
  • Journey for Justice: the Life of Larry Itliong by Dawn Bohulano Mabalon and Gayle Romasanta
  • Escape to Gold Mountain Graphic Novel by David H.T. Wong
  • They Called Us Enemy Graphic Novel by George Takei
  • A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata
  • We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
  • Vietnamerica by G.B. Tran
  • We Should Never Meet by Aimee Phan
  • The Boat Interactive Graphic Novel based on the story by Nam Le, Adaptation by Matt Huynh, Produced by SBS
  • Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 by Him Mark Lai, Lim, Yung
  • The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
  • A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (For Young People Series) by Ronald Takaki