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Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month (Official Website)
View exhibits and collections, audio and video, and more. The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America's history and are instrumental in its future success.
National Archives: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month The National Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Asian and Pacific Islander experience, and it highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.
National Park Service: Explore Asian American & Pacific Islander Stories In online exhibits, discover Asian American stories preserved in our nation’s parks, memorials, and historic sites.
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center offers history, art and culture through innovative web series, learning modules, and resources to #StopAsianHate

Asian Americans
(Films on Demand) This five-part series from PBS traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, and cultural innovation. It is a timely look at the role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation.

Asian America : a primary source reader by Cathy J Schlund-Vials 1974- (Editor), Kevin Scott Wong (Editor), Jason Oliver Chang (Editor) (EBSCO eBook) An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a wide range of fields, from law to visual culture to politics, covering key historical and cultural developments that enable students to engage directly with the Asian American experience over the past century.
ISBN: 9780300225198
Publication Date: 2017
A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American civil rights in the South by Stephanie Hinnershitz (EBSCO eBook) In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those of African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights. Drawing from legislative and legal records as well as oral histories, memoirs, and newspapers, Hinnershitz describes a movement that ran alongside and intersected with the African American fight for justice..
ISBN: 9781469633701
Publication Date: 2017