Stand With the AAPI Community: Resources and Actions

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This resource list was compiled by Iman Maani, Nicole Eigbrett, and Thressa Zimmerman.

Resources to help educate on how to be a better ally to the Asian and AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) community and educate about anti-Asian bias, hate crimes, and violence. 

Organizations

Asian Creators and Accounts on Instagram

  • @kimsaira

  • @stopaapihate

  • @advancing_justice_atl

  • @aaajalc

  • @napawf_ati

  • @amandangoncguyen

  • @annie_wu_22

  • @aarwboston

  • @asiansformentalhealth

  • @teachandtransform

Donate

Mental Health Resources

  • Asian Mental Health Collective (www.asianmhc.org)

  • SAMHSA National Hotline (800.662.HELP)

  • National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) (www.nqapia.org)

  • Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741741

Report Hate Crimes

Books about anti-Asian Racism in America

  • The making of Asian America: A history – Erika Lee

  • Driven out: The forgotten war against Chinese Americans – Jean Pfaelzer

  • Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco’s Chinatown – Nayan Shah

  • Serve the people: Making Asian America in the long sixties – Karen L. Ishizuka

  • Orientals: Asian Americans in popular culture – Robert G. Lee

  • Vestiges of war: The Philippine-American war and the aftermath of an imperial drea 1899 – 1999 – Edited by Angel Velasco Shaw and Luis H. Francia

  • To save the children of Korea: The Cold War origins of Korean adoption – Arissa Oh

  • The color of success: Asian Americans and the origins of the model minority – Ellen Wu

Works by Asian and Asian-American Authors: Fiction and Nonfiction

  • Minor feelings: An Asian American reckoning – Cathy Park Hong

  • If they come for us – Fatimah Asghar

  • The farm – Joanne Ramos

  • The vegetarian – Han Kang

  • Story of your life – Ted Chiang

  • The woman warrior: Memories of a girlhood among ghosts – Maxine Hong Kingston

  • Know my name – Emily Miller

  • First they killed my father - Loung Ung 

  • Pachinko - Min Jin Lee

  • All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung

Other Actions

  • Do your research and learn about AAPI history, struggles, and successes beyond pop culture. Listen and follow the lead of AAPI organizers and workers in your community. Engage in difficult conversations to dismantle racism. To be better, we must do better.

  • Practice and learn bystander intervention - check out trainings offered by Hollaback to stop xenophobic harassment: https://www.ihollaback.org/bystanderintervention/  

  • Join mutual aid efforts that build solidarity and safety in your community without the involvement of police (ex. volunteer to be a chaperone for your neighbors who are elderly).

  • Call your elected officials in your city/town, state, and federal government legislators: ask what they’re doing for the Asian and AAPI community and insist they issue a statement or resolution condemning anti-Asian hate and violence.

  • Support local Asian-American and AAPI-owned small businesses.


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