Adler University Library: Anti-Racism Guide: Asian/South Asian resources

Education and Literature on Anti-Asian Hate

Watch: Asian Americans film series on PBS.
Watch: House Judiciary Hearing on Discrimination and Violence Against Asian Americans
Read: Psychological Impact of Anti-Asian Stigma Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Read: Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States

Read: Stop APPI Hate National Report
Watch: PBS | Asian Americans – History of identity, contributions, and challenges experiences by Asian Americans.
Read: Challenge Racist British Columbia: 150 Years and Counting
Read: Responding to Hate Toolkit by Ryerson University
Read: #FaceRace campaign by CCNC Social Justice, CCNC Toronto, Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic, and Civil Engagement Network
Read: “Too Asian?: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education”
Read: ETFO | Addressing Anti-Asian Racism: A Resource for Educators
Read: Chinese Head Tax in Canada, by A. Chan
Read: TIMELINE: This is Canada’s history of anti-Asian racism that COVID-19 has amplified
Watch: Hidden Hate: Anti-Asian Racism | Global News special
Read: Read literature and resources to stop anti-Asian violence from Powell's Books.

Organizations Supporting Asian American & Canadian Women

Asian American & Canadian LGBTQIA+ Resources

Asian Pride Project
Invisible 2 Invincible: Asian Pacific Islander Pride of Chicago
Invisible to Invincible ("i2i") is a community-based organization that celebrates and affirms Asians & Pacific Islanders who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Queer in the Chicago area.
National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance
Sher Vancouver
Sher Vancouver hopes to reduce the alienation and discrimination of people dealing with sexuality, gender and coming-out issues by providing counselling, peer support, education and outreach services.
The Ties That Bind: Building the CPR, Building a Place in Canada
The Ties That Bind: Building the CPR, Building a Place in Canada examines the struggle of the Chinese Canadian community to establish an identity and roots in Canada. Through archival evidence and research of the men who came from China to build the transcontinental railroad in the 1880s, and the use of oral testimony of their descendants, The Ties That Bind preserves a seldom told part of Canada's history.
The Visibility Project

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Organizations

Asian Canadian Organizations, Associations & Related Programmes
Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada)
Canada’s leading organization for research, analysis, and consultation on Canada-Asia relations
Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia
Government of Canada - Asian Heritage Month, organizations and educational resources
Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre
Our Mission: to honour, preserve, and share Japanese culture and Japanese Canadian history and heritage for a better Canada.
S.U.C.C.E.S.S. - Counselling & Crisis Support
We are a diverse, inclusive, and multi-service
agency that assists people in all stages of their lives in Canada. [...] With our 40 service locations across Canada and in Asia, we offer programs and services for individuals and families who are preparing for Canada, temporary residents, permanent residents, or who are already Canadian citizens.
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Individuals and families strengthen their relationships and enhance their well-being through our culturally-appropriate counselling and crisis support services. Our services are offered in confidential settings to support clients who are experiencing personal, inter-personal, and family challenges.

Events: future & past

Events that have already occurred, but you may want to stay tuned to future events!

Virtual Event: Anti-Asian Sentiment & Racism hosted by Chinese Association of West Michigan (3/26/2021)
Virtual Event: Anti-Asian Racism and Violence hosted by ACLU of Nevada, One APIA Nevada, and Asian Community Development Council (3/26/2021)

Chicago Event: Stop Anti-Asian Violence, Stop China-Bashing! Hosted by Answer Coalition Chicago (3/27/2021)

Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA) Healing Space for AAPI Community (3/21/2020)
Coalition on Human Needs: DC Rally for Collective Safety (3/21/2021)

Digital Toolkit available from event

Documentaries freely available on the internet

Professor Henry Yu, a member of the UBC History Department and Principal of St. John's College, presents an overview of the systemic discrimination experienced by Chinese immigrants to Canada, mixing his own family's story with the broader history of Vancouver's, BC's and Canada's policies and regulations. Prof. Yu is co-curator of an upcoming exhibit on Chinese-Canadian immigration entitled A Seat at the Table, opening soon at the Museum of Vancouver and in Chinatown.

Swimming Upstream is a powerful video produced by Maryka Omatsu and narrated by Mark Sakamoto which holds to account the key public officials who engineered the total displacement and dispossession of Japanese Canadians in British Columbia. It exposes the pure hypocrisy of the politicians who acted in complete opposition to the advice of their officials that Japanese Canadians did not pose a security risk and were loyal Canadians.

Films available through Adler library

Films to rent

E-books available through Adler library

Concentration Camps on the Home Front by John Howard
ISBN: 9780226354774
Publication Date: 2009-05-15
Almost 20,000 Americans of Japanese descent were shipped to two concentration camps in the segregated South -- Jerome and Rohwer in Arkansas -- locations that put them right in the heart of a much older, long-festering system of racist oppression.
Integrative Antiracism by Edith Samuel
ISBN: 9781442676237
Publication Date: 2016-01-29
Through the exploration of the intricate patterns of South Asians' assimilation into university life, Integrative Antiracism identifies the numerous barriers racial minorities encounter and suggests a variety of approaches to fostering a more equitable education system.
The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration by Karen M. Inouye
ISBN: 9780804795746
Publication Date: 2016-10-26
The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.

Anti-Asian Violence Groups and Resources

Anti-Asian Bias Tools and Resources
The recent pandemic has led to a rise of anti-Asian bias, hate, harassment, and violence. Below are tools and resources students, staff, faculty, and community members can use in or outside the classroom or in their daily lives. The purpose of these documents is to self-empower individuals to investigate, unlearn, and relearn and use new information or knowledge to address anti-Asian bias.
Anti-Asian Violence Resources - Master List
Asian American/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Resources
Resources/messages shared with Student Affairs by Adler University community members
Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Chicago builds power through collective advocacy and organizing to achieve racial equity.
Hate Is A Virus
Landscapes of Injustice
During the 1940s, Canada enacted mass displacement and dispossession of people on racial grounds, a collective moral failure that remains only partially addressed. Japanese Canadians lost their homes, farms, businesses, as well as personal, family, and communal possessions. Landscapes of Injustice is dedicated to recovering and grappling with this difficult past.
National Association of Japanese Canadians
OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates
Project 1907
We provide spaces for diasporic Asians to understand our histories, explore our identities, examine our privileges and reclaim our power
South Asian Mental Health Initiative & Network
South Asian Mental Health Initiative and Network, SAMHIN, is a non-profit that addresses the mental health needs of the South Asian community in the U.S.
The WeChat Project: Providing Alternative Narratives to the Chinese Diaspora

Info Sessions and Bystander Intervention Trainings

Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago: Sign Up for a Training in April 2021
Act to Change - Stop AAPI Hate: Towards Prevention and Solidarity: Recorded Panel Discussion & Bystander Intervention Training
Hollaback! Together We Have the Power to End Harassment: Bystander Intervention Training
Hollaback! Show Up: Your Guide to Bystander Intervention
“Let’s Talk!”
2020-2021 Professionals Conference for professionals who support Asian and Asian American Students

Report an Incident

Mental Health Resources for the AAPI Community

@asiansformentalhealth

Asian Mental Health Collective: APISAA Therapist Directory
subtle asian mental health
National AAPI Mental Health Association
Asian Therapists:

Asian Mental Health Collective
It is the mission of the Asian Mental Health Collective to normalize and de-stigmatize mental health within the Asian community.

Books available at your local library

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2021 for Kids from Chicago Public Library
Being Chinese in Canada: The Struggle for Identity, Redress and Belonging, by William Ging Wee Dere (2013)
Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment, by Mona Oikawa (2012)
Not Fit to Stay: Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion, by Sarah Isabel Wallace (2017)
Obasan, by Joy Kogawa (1981)
Pacific Islander Poetry and Culture from the Poetry Foundation
17 books to celebrate Asian Heritage Month in Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Books
South Asian Canadian poets, a reading list compiled by the 49th Shelf.
13 Books by Pacific Islanders, a reading list compiled by Electric Literature, a nonprofit digital publisher
Unraveling the "model Minority" Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth, by Lee, Stacy J. (2009)
We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, by Jeff Chang (2016)
Young, Proud, and Sung-jee, children's book on fighting anti-Asian racism during COVID-19.