CAAC: Resources

October 1, 2020

The One Nation Commission Report II, edited by author and journalist Helen Zia, with contributions by Viet Nguyen and AAPI researchers, provides the facts, data, new research, curated stories, and imagery that prove and bring to life the impact on AAPIs of COVID-19 and the compounding effects of the simultaneous rise in anti-Asian hate. The report lifts up Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voice, expertise, and experience, and shows our community’s strength and engagement in the immigrant rights fight.

July 1, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak continues to have far-reaching health and economic consequences for the American public. But for many, especially Black and Asian Americans, the effects extend beyond medical and financial concerns. About four-in-ten Black and Asian adults say people have acted as if they were uncomfortable around them because of their race or ethnicity since the beginning of the outbreak, and similar shares say they worry that other people might be suspicious of them if they wear a mask when out in public, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

April 1, 2013

From national narratives about fairness to scientific studies of genetics, we are in a war of racial ideas that extends far beyond single campaigns and issue areas. In this historical moment, there is an ideological front that urgently demands our attention. We are in a three-sided struggle — between the state, the racist right, and us. Engaging only with the state is not enough. Organizers know that fights in policy or legal arenas are the end debates, where solutions are constrained by entrenched political realities that demand movement building solutions, not short-term campaigns.

May 26, 2022

This document has been compiled by Professors Anna Guevarra (guevarra@uic.edu), Director and Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies, Michael Jin (mrjin@uic.edu), Assistant Professor of Global Asian Studies and History, and Gayatri Reddy (gayatri@uic.edu), Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago.

January 27, 2020

Created by Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut Dr. Jason Oliver Chang, this page is intended to gather textual and digital resources to provide easy access to material useful for teach-ins, talking points, and classroom teaching.

March 1, 2022

Curriculum guide written by Bianca Mabute-Louie and published by the California Faculty Association.

January 1, 2021

This toolkit is a project of love from the grassroots, from and by Asian American communities. As Asian Americans, we believe that our liberation is tied to Black liberation and we continue to dream about a world where all of our people will be free.

July 29, 2020

E. Tammy Kim discusses the history and limitations of the term “people of color” in the work of antiracism.

July 6, 2020

Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about the complexity of the term Asian-American, its experience, and its position as the model minority in this piece for Time Magazine.

April 29, 2017

25 years after the LA riots, Kyung Lah tells the stories of three Korean-American men and the impact of the riots on their political lives.

October 15, 2020

Viral Racisms: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Respond to COVID-19. Journal of Asian American Studies Special Issue Vol. 23, No. 3 (Oct. 2020).

August 17, 2016

Kim, Claire Jean. “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans.” Politics & Society 27, no. 1 (March 1, 1999): 105–38.

October 13, 2020

This curated digital collection of news reports, data, perspectives, and other resources documents the health, economic, and social impact of COVID-19 on immigrants and refugees in the United States.

March 19, 2020

In response to the alarming escalation in xenophobia and bigotry resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, AAPI Equity Alliance (AAPI Equity), Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), and the Asian American Studies Department of San Francisco State University launched the Stop AAPI Hate coalition on March 19, 2020.

February 25, 2020

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship.

April 4, 2019

What does it mean to be Asian American? Should Asian American identity be construed primarily in cultural terms or racial terms? And why should contemporary theology care about such questions? Disciplined by Race: Theological Ethics and the Problem of Asian American Identity reveals the critical importance of Asian American experience…

February 15, 2019

In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation.