Sadly, hate bias incidents reminiscent of verbal harassment and bodily assault in opposition to Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in the US have risen through the Covid-19 pandemic as a result of misconceptions and misinformation concerning the unfold of the virus.
I stand with the Asian American and Pacific Islander neighborhood and all People in opposition to racism, xenophobia, and intolerance.
There may be a lot to study turning into an anti-racist and it’s possible you’ll discover Dr Ibram X. Kendi’s chart under on the right way to change into an anti-racist, tailored by Dr Ibrahim and Jo Chrona, very useful on this regard. That is an up to date model to the chart that appeared in Black Lives Matter: Anti-Racism Resources for Social Workers and Therapists.
To help within the endeavor of turning into anti-racist, this submit supplies some steps we will all take to assist break the cycle of racism and violence, and a round-up of numerous anti-AAPI racism sources to assist us change into higher knowledgeable about our AAPI communities. These embrace sources particularly for people experiencing Anti-Asian/American harassment, in addition to webinars, books, articles, anti-racism guides/toolkits, movies, podcasts, and worthwhile organizations to assist.
Please be at liberty to share any extra useful finds within the feedback part of this submit.
Graphic tailored by Jo Chrona primarily based on the work of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi and Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc’s adaptation
Free Anti-Asian Racism Webinars/Trainings
- Bystander Intervention – Hollaback! and Asian People Advancing Justice/June 3 at 1 PM EST and June 8 at 6 PM EST or June 16 at 5 PM EST – “5 methods for intervention: distract, delegate, doc, delay, and direct; and the right way to prioritize your individual security whereas intervening…”
- Bystander Intervention 2.0 – Battle De-Escalation Workshop – Hollaback! and Asian People Advancing Justice/May 12 at 5PM EST and May 27 at 3 PM EST or June 18 at 12 PM EST or June 28 at 1 PM EST – “deeper than above-mentioned bystander intervention… how to determine potential battle earlier than it escalates utilizing our “pyramid of escalation” and the right way to assess whether or not intervening is the correct motion for you…”
- #StopAsianHate Panel: Advocating for Our Elders – AARP/Could 6 at 3 PM EST – “study extra concerning the work of AAPI community-based organizations and the way they’re at present advocating for AAPI elders within the areas of coverage, neighborhood assist, and communications…”
- The State of Asian America Today Could 8 at 8 PM EST, Where Have We Come From? on Could 15 at 8PM EST, Where Are We Going? Part 1 on Could 22 at 8 PM EST and Where Are We Going? Part 2 on Could 29 at 8 PM EST – “sequence of on-line city halls from Rise: Asian Pacific America to reply to the anti-Asian hate we’re all seeing all through our numerous communities… the place we’re as we speak, the place we’ve been as a neighborhood, and the place we have to go, to rise as much as the challenges we face within the close to and distant future…
- Understanding the Impact of COVID and Social Injustices on the Diverse AA, NH & PI Communities – Stanford College/Could 10 at 2 PM EST – “challenges together with historic trauma as a result of immigration, being a refugee, colonization, and being seen as eternally foreigners, in addition to preventing in opposition to the parable of the mannequin minority…”
- Navigating Prejudice and Internalized Prejudice – AAPA/Could 12 at 8 PM EST – “experiences of being discriminated in opposition to and oppressed have an effect on our general well-being and sense of company… differentiate unhelpful collective messages reminiscent of colorism and “gender inequality is cultural” from cultural identification, so we will restore wellness and justice in our minds, houses, and communities…”
- White Supremacy Characteristics – SURJ/Could 13 at 8 PM EST – “We’re all swimming within the waters of white supremacy tradition. And we’re not all affected in the identical manner… The excellent news is that whereas white supremacy tradition informs us, it doesn’t outline us… It’s a assemble, and something constructed will be deconstructed and changed.”- Tema Okun… article
- API Heritage Month: Narratives on History, Belonging & Activism – CSSW/Could 17 at 6 – 7:30 PM EST – “private tales, views on historical past and belonging, and methods for sustaining activism and therapeutic…”
- NASW-NYC B.O.L.D Talk: Mental Health & Racial Trauma – Could 19 at 6 PM EST – “historic implications of racism, the psychological well being affect of racism on communities of shade, and social work’s function in being each complicit and efficient in addressing white supremacy and the following trauma…”
- Eradicating AAPI Hate – NASW/Could 27 at 1 – 2:30 PM EST – “Through the COVID-19 pandemic, violent assaults in opposition to and harassment towards Asian People have spiked… how present challenges and threats will be understood within the broader context of systemic racism in America…”
- Racial Trauma within Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Communities – McSilver Institute/June 10 at 12 PM EST – “historic and modern examples of racism and discrimination inside these communities and discover their impacts on psychological well being and well-being…”
- Channeling Healthy Anger As a Leader – AAPA/June 16 at 8 PM EST – “Anger is usually perceived as an unhealthy and unwelcome emotion. This fable of anger might block us from utilizing this highly effective emotion in therapeutic trauma, constructing resilience, and lifting up the neighborhood…”
Anti-Asian Racism Webinars on Demand
- Anti-Asian Racism and COVID 19: A Teach-In – PEN America – ” teach-in will situate the alarming rise in hate in opposition to an extended historic context and have dialogue of how Asian People have turned to literature, poetry, and activism to push again on this scourge and struggle for equality, inclusion, and justice.”
- Between the Data: The Unseen Stories of Asian Americans – Pew Analysis Middle – “massive information gaps exist about Asians and their experiences in America… current analysis on Asian People as they discover the right way to shut these information gaps and the way higher information can serve policymakers, the press, and advocates… presentation slides“
- Healing Communities: Asian/Asian-American Experiences of Mentoring & Social Support – (Half 1) AAPA – “useful methods to domesticate mutually useful social networks, and put money into mentoring relationships…”
- Owning Your Strengths An AAPI Storytelling Panel (Part 2)– how we inform (and who tells) our tales has an necessary affect on our capacity to see ourselves. Themes will embrace confidence, humility, overconfidence, and navigating cultural and subcultural norms.
- Racializing COVID-19: A 3-Part Series About the Intersections of Race and COVID-19 – College of Illinois/Part 2 and Part 3 – “historical past of scapegoating minority teams during times of unrest and the way the coronavirus has fueled a resurgence of focused racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia… how language, reminiscent of repeated use of “the China virus,” perpetuates misinformation about how the virus spreads…”
For People Experiencing Anti-Asian/American Harassment
- The right way to Reply to Harassment – Hollaback! and Asian People Advancing Justice/May 21 at 12 PM EST – “what to search for when assessing your security, and the right way to decide if responding within the second is the correct motion or not. We’ll additionally take a deep dive into the right way to construct your resilience on a person, interpersonal, organizational, neighborhood, and societal entrance…”
- AAPI community and mental health care – NAMI – info on culturally competent care.
- AAPI Assist Group through Zoom – Coaching Institute for Psychological Well being – Friday, Could twenty first – 7:30-8:45PM EST, Sunday, June sixth – 6:30-7:45PM EST, Friday, June twenty fifth – 7:30-8:45PM EST, Friday, August sixth – 7:30p-8:45PM EST and Friday, August twentieth – 7:30p-8:45PM EST. For extra details about the group and/or to RSVP for a selected date, please e mail sconverysw@gmail.com or pbuilcsw@gmail.com.
- Anti-Racism Resources for the AAPI Community – from Cornell.
- Resources for Asian Americans learning about anti-Blackness by Asians American Advancing Justice – AAJC.
- Mental health and behavioral services for Asian People, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. One other psychological well being assist web site is the Asian Mental Health Collective.
- A Mental Wellness Activity Book for Asian Americans – College of Connecticut’s Asian and Asian American Research Institute – free pdf contains journals, poetry, literature and extra sources to assist assist Asian American psychological well being.
Sources for Self Schooling about Racism Towards the AAPI Neighborhood
Really useful Kids Books H/T Julius Paras
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- 5 Quick Ways to Analyze Children’s Books for Racism and Sexism – @LovingLittleMinds
- Eyes That Kiss in the Corners – [affiliate link] – “New York Instances Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller… lyrical, gorgeous image e-book tells a narrative about studying to like and rejoice your Asian-shaped eyes, within the spirit of Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry, and is a celebration of range…”
- From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea – [affiliate link] – “Miu Lan is not only any baby, however one who can become any form they will think about. The one drawback is they will’t resolve what to be: A boy or a woman? A chook or a fish? A flower or a taking pictures star?… one factor’s for certain: it doesn’t matter what this baby turns into, their mom will love them simply the identical…”
- Young, Proud, and Sung-jee: A Kids’s E book on Preventing Anti-Asian Racism Throughout COVID-19 – e-book is free to obtain.
Really useful Grownup Books H/T Constance Grady
- The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority – [affiliate link] – “mainstream America finds it really easy to disregard anti-Asian racism is the concept Asian People are a “mannequin minority”: They might not be thought of white, however they’re nonetheless thought of well-assimilated and upwardly cell…”
- Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown – [affiliate link] – “Trump’s repeated invocation of the false concept that Asian People one way or the other carried Covid-19 into the US has lengthy and racist roots. Early Chinese language immigrants to the US within the nineteenth century had been repeatedly demonized as filthy illness carriers by the general public well being authorities of the period…”
- Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans – [affiliate link] – “Beginning in 1848 and persevering with into the twentieth century, in cities throughout the American West, Chinese language People had been violently rounded up, pushed out of city, or killed in a deliberate marketing campaign of ethnic cleaning…”
- The Making of Asian America: A History – [affiliate link] – “historian Erika Lee tracks waves of Asian immigration to the US… Asian People cycle between getting labeled “good immigrants” and “unhealthy immigrants,” relying on the temper of the political second…”
Articles
- 68 ways to donate in support of Asian communities – New Yorker – “this listing primarily based on what every group does, from helping companies impacted by COVID-19 to offering authorized support and training…”
- America’s Anti-Chinese Bigotry Has a Very Old Stench: Historic overview of anti-Asian bigotry and the way it’s written into our authorities insurance policies and language.
- American Zenophilia – Humanities – “Buddhists in America are typically divided between ethnic Buddhists, typically Asian-People who’re descendants of immigrants, and convert Buddhists…
- A ‘History of Exclusion, of Erasure, of Invisibility.’ Why the Asian-American Story Is Missing From Many U.S. Classrooms – Time Magazine – “anti-Asian racism is immediately linked to historical past, and the way members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) neighborhood are sometimes depicted in U.S. historical past classes: as foreigners or nationwide safety threats, versus individuals who have lived and labored in America and have challenged it to stay as much as its beliefs of equality for all…”
- Attacks on Asian Americans Demands New Solutions: Overview of assaults and knowledge on how Asian People are used as a software to wedge and reinforce white supremacists’ beliefs and drive anti-Black racism.
- How to Respond to Coronavirus Racism – “Communicate Up” methods to let folks know you’re not OK with racist or xenophobic feedback about coronavirus or anything… Instructing Tolerance recommends a four-step course of for talking up in opposition to bias: Interrupt, Query, Educate and Echo…”
- How to stop the dangerous rise in hatred targeted at Asian Americans – USA At present – “Racism in opposition to Asian People is longstanding and complicated, and requires a complete and multi-faceted method…”
- The inadequacy of the term “Asian American” – Vox – “label aspires to unify a variety of communities with frequent trigger and shared experiences. However many really feel it flattens and erases total cultures…”
- In a Role Reversal, Asian-Americans Aim to Protect Their Parents From Hate – NYT – “Generational and cultural gaps make conversations about race and violence tough with their American-born and raised kids and grandchildren, who might not fluently converse the native language of their elders…”
- In the Spotlight: 12 Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Social Workers – New Social Employee – “This previous yr, anti-Asian violence has been growing, and a few say that dehumanization of Asian and Pacific Islanders (API) within the U.S. is a contributing issue. One option to fight that is to share our tales…”
- Looking at the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in the Pandemic – NYT – “anti-Asian sentiment tends to rise in occasions of nationwide disaster…”
- The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence – New Yorker – “It’s tough to explain anti-Asian racism when society lacks a coherent, historic account of what that racism really appears like… the Asian-American expertise doesn’t all the time match neatly into typical understandings of victimhood…”
- This Is What No One Tells You About Being Asian In America In 2021: Private essay addresses the 1,900% rise in hate crimes in opposition to Asian People because the begin of the pandemic.
Anti-Asian Racism Guides/Toolkits
- Anti-Asian Racism Resource Guide for Families with Children, Young Adults or Elders – “conversations about race ought to start close to a baby’s fifth birthday although kids start to concentrate on race when they’re infants…”
- Anti-Racism Resources for Asian Americans – “motion gadgets… Anti-Blackness in Asian Communities… Mannequin Minority Fable and Meritocracy Lies…”
- APALA Racial Justice Toolkit – “racial justice trainings… organizations in racial justice motion moments… sources…”
- APALA (Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association) 2021 COVID-19 Anti-racist Resources – “authorized help, trackers (racial profiling and hate crimes), anti-xenophobia sources…”
- Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit – “15 modules spanning Asian American Identification, Mannequin Minority Fable, Gender & Patriarchy, White Supremacy, Race & Working Class + Immigrant Struggles, For Black Lives, Colonialism, & Islamo-Racism… start with folks’s lived experiences… construct structural consciousness of why these experiences are taking place, and the way they’re tied to the oppression of others…”
- Asian American Racism & Mental Health Resources – Massachusetts Basic Hospital -“sources tailor-made towards college students, mother and father, educators, psychological well being clinicians, and allies/most of the people…”
- Bystander Intervention Guide – Middle for City Pedagogy (CUP) and Hollaback! – illustrates what harassment appears like and the right way to intervene as a bystander.
- Classroom Resources and Tips To Address Anti-Asian Discrimination – “Anti-AAPI racism isn’t something new on this nation. From “yellow peril” to the “mannequin minority,” we have to educate ourselves concerning the historical past of anti-AAPI racism on this nation…”
- Combat Hate Crime Resources – “APIAHF and NAPABA toolkit translated into 25 totally different languages… Understanding the distinction between a hate crime and hate incident… Working with regulation enforcement and the media… Guidelines for neighborhood organizations…”
- #IAmNotAVirus – “an artist led initiative that does impactful work on dismantling racism by guiding people to discover their private tales and consider them by an fairness lens to allow them to make battle much less uncomfortable and change into invested in rising in neighborhood…:”
- Learning Together – Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Middle – “Addressing anti-Asian racism and xenophobia… Actions and movies for college students, households, and lifelong learners…Sources about Asian American and Pacific Islander voices in literature…
- Narratives by and About Asians and Asian Americans – CSWE – “extremely acclaimed modern literature… signify practically 1 / 4 of the 51 international locations and territories of Asia. Intersectionality, coming of age, the precariousness of pressured displacement, and layered cultural identification are a number of the themes…”
- Racial Justice in Education Resource Guide – “Racial justice — or racial fairness — goes past “anti-racism.” It’s not simply the absence of discrimination and inequities, but in addition the presence of deliberate methods and helps to realize and maintain racial fairness by proactive and preventative measures…”
- Toolkit for Addressing Anti-Asian Bias, Discrimination, and Hate – NYC Fee on Human Rights, the Mayor’s Workplace for the Prevention of Hate Crimes – educates the general public about their rights and protections in mild of COVID-19-related stigma and hate crimes.
Not A lot of a Reader? Test Out These Anti-Racist Movies/Films/TV Exhibits/Podcasts
YouTube/TV/Movie
- Asia Rising Forever – recording of a particular livestream pageant occasion… a celebration of Asian and Asian American music and togetherness, demonstrating unity because of the pandemic and the xenophobic hate many are experiencing.
- Asian Americans is a five-part PBS documentary sequence on the historical past of Asians in America and the ongoing function Asian People have performed in shaping our nation’s historical past. The sequence is informed by particular person lives and household tales
- #AsianAmCovidStories is a documentary sequence by the Asian American Documentary Community exploring Asian People’ experiences and challenges through the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2021 – PBS is providing a number of new movies and exhibits that includes AAPI tales.
- The Chinese Exclusion Act – 2018 PBS documentary examines the origin, historical past, and affect of the 1882 regulation that made it unlawful for Chinese language staff to return to America, and for Chinese language nationals already right here to change into U.S. residents.
- Fear, Compassion or Xenophobia: Our Social Responses to Crisis – dialogue on creating frameworks to struggle xenophobia.
- I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype | Canwen Xu | TEDxBoise – “On this hilarious and insightful speak, eighteen-year-old Canwen Xu shares her Asian-American story of breaking stereotypes, reaffirming stereotypes, and driving competently on her manner to purchase rice.”
- Let It Not Happen Again: Lessons of the Japanese American Exclusion – “In March of 1942, 227 Japanese People had been forcibly faraway from their houses on Bainbridge Island by the US Military…”
- Raising Global Citizens: A Panel for Parents, Caregivers, and Educators – the right way to finest assist kids to be efficient individuals on this more and more advanced, numerous, and interconnected world.
- Self-Love through Self-Identity | Eileen Kim | TEDxWoodbridgeHigh – “hopes to interrupt the stigma surrounding psychological sickness by telling her personal story as a supply of empathy with a purpose to encourage others to hunt assist…”
- UNLADYLIKE2020 – sequence of 26 quick movies and a one-hour documentary profiling numerous and little-known American girls from the flip of the twentieth century, and modern girls who comply with of their footsteps.
- What kind of Asian are you? – Scott performs a pleasant jogger who could be very all in favour of guessing the heritage of Stella.
- Why Asian Americans are not the Model Minority | Alice Li | TEDxVanderbiltUniversity – “Confined inside the boundaries of the mannequin minority fable, Asian People are generally perceived as a mass of indistinguishable overachievers who’re all “sensible” and “good at math.” Nonetheless, these seemingly optimistic stereotypes can have a detrimental affect on not solely Asian People, but in addition race relations normally. On this speak, Alice Li attracts from analysis research and her private experiences to problem the two-dimensional identification outlined by the mannequin minority fable…”
Podcasts/Displays
Anti-Asian Racism Organizations to Assist
- Advancing Justice | AAJC – its mission is to advance the civil and human rights for Asian People and to construct and promote a good and equitable society for all.
- APACEvotes – strives to extend entry to and participation in electoral and civic affairs by registering, educating and defending Asian American and Pacific Islander voters
- Asian Mental Health Collective – is working to destigmatize and normalize psychological well being inside the Asian neighborhood; Asians face culturally particular boundaries relating to psychological well being.
- Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS) – devoted to selling Asian Pacific American participation and illustration in any respect ranges of the political course of, from neighborhood service to elected workplace.
- Stop AAPI Hate – tracks and responds to incidents of hate, violence, harassment, discrimination, shunning, and baby bullying in opposition to Asian People and Pacific Islanders in the US.
Final up to date: June 1, 2021
References:
Cornell. (n.d.). Anti-Racism Resources for the AAPI Community
Grady, Constance. (March 18, 2021). A reading list to understand anti-Asian racism in America.
Highline Faculty Library. Anti-Racist Resources: Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Racial Justice
Nationwide Endowment for the Humanities. (n.d.). Virtual bookshelf.
NBC Information. Anti-racism resources to support Asian American, Pacific Islander community
NCAA Workplace of Inclusion. (n.d.) Anti-Racism resources to support the Asian American and Pacific Islander community: Websites and videos.
College of Pittsburgh. (n.d.). Antiracism Resources to Support Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Communities
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