ESSENTIAL ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES FOR ASIAN PEOPLE IN AMERICA
This document is intended to serve as a resource to Asian people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues. We were inspired by Anti-Racist Resources for White People and think many of the resources they’ve included pertain to Asian people as well. Please also make sure to check out Black Socialists Resource Guide’s beautiful and extensive reading list.
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ESSENTIAL READINGS
The following is a list of books and readings that we find helpful to learning more about our own history in America and our place in the racial discussion. Please support the writers by purchasing their books and, where possible, support local bookstores too.
BOOKS
A Brief History
Oxford Handbook of Asian American History
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
Contemporary Asian American Identity
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar
In Relation to Our Black & Brown Brothers & Sisters
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
ARTICLES & WRITINGS
Ongoing Drive of Asian and Black Discourse compiled by FAR–NEAR
Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit by AAPI
Black Revolutionary Texts compiled by New Reader Net
Shared Black Texts compiled by POCC Magazine
The 7 Circles of Whiteness (also applies to Asians)
ALTERNATIVES AND SUBSTITUTES FOR APPROPRIATIVE OR PROBLEMATIC LANGUAGE
ESSENTIAL VIEWINGS
Ongoing list of talks and documentaries pertaining to race in art and American culture.
Films to be added indefinitely.
TALKS
How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion
Collective Memory in Contemporary Black Art by Ayanna Dozier at the Whitney
White Domination of Space in Performance
Pidouhui as Art History: Crowd, Cruelty, and Curatorial Justice
James Baldwin Interviews on Youtube
Naomi Murakawa & #BlackLivesMatter: Liberals, Guns and the Roots of the U.S. Prison Explosion
DOCUMENTARIES
Black Power Mixtapes 1967-1975
LA 92 (Netflix)
Mountains That Take Wing (Filmsforaction.org)
Good Hair (Youtube)
ESSENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS
An ongoing list of organizations and collectives to support, collaborate, and be informed
Asian American Pacific Islanders for Civic Empowerment
ESSENTIAL INSTAGRAM ART ARCHIVES
SOCIAL POSTS AND IMAGERY TO SHARE
ESSENTIAL LINKS & RESOURCE DIRECTORIES
ASIAN SPECIFIC RESOURCES
Talking to Your Asian Immigrant Family About Race compiled by Eda Yu and Heji Rashdi
Letters for Black Lives - A set of crowdsourced, multilingual, and culturally-aware resources aimed at creating a space for open and honest conversations about racial justice, police violence, and anti-Blackness in our families and communities.
GENERAL RESOURCES
Relevant Events, Petitions, etc.
Justice in June - Choose how much time you have each day to become more informed as step one to becoming an active ally to the black community. On this document are links to the learning resources and a schedule of what to do each day.
Film List compiled by Paige Silveria
Fantasy World Master List of Resources on How to Dismantle Systemic Racism
Natl Resource List #GeorgeFloyd+
Document compiled by FAR–NEAR ( a book series broadening perspectives of Asia through image, person, idea and history to unlearn the inherent dominative mode ) and our community of friends and allies. If you would like to get involved in future programming and brainstorming, please fill out this form or contact lulu@far-near.media