KASonline | Korean American Ethnic Studies Materials Korean American Studies (KAS) Online is a resource hub for providing online educational materials to anyone interested in teaching Korean & Korean American Studies. It is established by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Los Angeles and managed by the Korea American Studies Education Foundation. On this webpage, you will find Korean American Ethnic Studies (KAES) teaching resource materials. KAES lessons have been categorized in chronological order from the Korean Diaspora & Early Korean Immigrants to Korean Americans in the 21st Century. The lessons are aligned with various California state-adopted content standards since ethnic studies is an interdisciplinary curriculum. Also included are a teacher guide, up to three lesson activities, assessment tools, extension/follow-up activities, and additional resources for in-depth exploration of each lesson and for easier implementation of these lessons.
Zinn Education Project | Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About Reconstruction This national report was released on January 2022 as a part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach Reconstruction Campaign. It represents a comprehensive effort by the Zinn Education Project to understand Reconstruction’s place in state social studies standards across the United States, examine the nature and extent of the barriers to teaching effective Reconstruction history, and make focused recommendations for improvement. Using its Reconstruction standards as a guide, the Zinn Education Project examined course requirements, frameworks, and support for teachers from 2019 to 2021. It also included stories about creative efforts by districts and/or individual teachers in each state to teach outside the textbook about Reconstruction. A 44-page PDF of the report is available for download at this link. Visit the website for archival materials, additional links to education materials, and an interactive web version of the report.
Pew Research Center | Discrimination Experiences Shape Most Asian Americans’ Lives Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to understand Asian Americans’ experiences with discrimination in the United States and their views of anti-Asian racism in the country. This report is the latest in the Center’s in-depth analysis of public opinion among Asian Americans. The data in this report comes from two main sources. The first is a nationally representative survey of 7,006 Asian adults exploring the experiences, attitudes and views of Asians living in the U.S. on several topics, including discrimination and racism in America, identity, affirmative action, global affairs, policy priorities and religious identities. The survey sampled U.S. adults who self-identify as Asian, either alone or in combination with other races or Hispanic ethnicity. It was offered in six languages: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), English, Hindi, Korean, Tagalog and Vietnamese. Responses were collected from July 5, 2022, to Jan. 27, 2023, by Westat on behalf of Pew Research Center. Read the 10-page report, data, interviews, and graphics at this link or see below. RE_2023.11.30_Asian-American-Discrimination_Report
ATJ and BMP | Building Power in the Midst of Crisis in Texas Asian American Communities and Beyond Asian American activists in Texas have been facing wave after wave of crisis response over the last year – just as many Asian American organizations have throughout the country. In this article published on The Forge, read about how Asian Texans for Justice is building out rapid response infrastructure for the long run. It also includes recommendations and strategies, touches on Building Movement Project’s Balancing Act report (featuring AAPI Civic Engagement Fund grantees Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, Asian Americans United, Asian American Federation, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities, and Chinese Progressive Association-San Francisco), and a toolkit for organizations needing to provide rapid response in real time. This article is co-authored by UyenThi Tran Myhre, Coordinator of Movement Building Programs at the Building Movement Project, and Lily Trieu, Executive Director at Asian Texans for Justice. See the toolkit mentioned in the article below. BMP_Rapid-Response-in-Real-Time_Final
UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute | Latino Data Hub Developed by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute the Latino Data Hub was launched in 2023 as a fully bilingual user-friendly data platform. It offers customizable visualizations across key indicators, including demographics, health care access, education, income, and employment. Users can further dig into the data by exploring factors such as Latino descent, race, sex, citizenship, and English proficiency, spanning national, state, and county levels. Learn more through the video below, and visit the Latino Data Hub at this link.
Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World Standing at the juncture of white supremacy and anti-Blackness, Asian Americans have been imagined as not-white but above all not-Black –as undesirable but the lesser of two evils–for almost two centuries. In her explosive new book, Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World, Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D., argues that Asian Americans have benefited from anti-Blackness at the same time that they have been burdened by white supremacy. Throughout history, they have been weaponized against (and have sometimes weaponized themselves against) the Black freedom struggle and used as an alibi for a racial capitalist U.S. state whose legitimacy is often in question. For whites, the principle is: Whiteness is best, but the most important thing is not-Blackness. Or, better Asians than Blacks. This is key to understanding how Asian Americans have been positioned and how they have negotiated their social and economic mobility in an anti-Black society. This event, hosted on June 13, 2023, featured Dr. Claire Jean Kim in conversation with Dr. Charlene Sinclair, Colorlines’ Editor, to discuss how these theories might guide Black and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities into solidarity with one another. This event was co-organized by the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund and Colorlines, and co-sponsored by the National AAPI Power Fund, California Black Freedom Fund, Four Freedoms Fund, Groundswell Fund, Groundswell Action Fund, and the RISE Together Fund.
Behind Closed Doors | Part 4 This four-part webinar series took place from December 2022 to March 2023. It was hosted by the USC Price School and its Center for Inclusive Democracy, the California Black Freedom Fund, the Latino Community Foundation, and the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund. The fourth and last part of these moderated sessions explored the entrenchment of racism in U.S. politics, and its impact on political power and representation in communities. Titled “Behind Closed Doors,” these sessions served as a public space for open and challenging conversations examining the nation’s entrenched relationship between racism and politics, a situation recently brought further into the spotlight by the secret recording of a meeting of Los Angeles City Council members making racist remarks. Watch the full video below, or click here to watch the webinar highlights. Moderator: Mindy Romero, Founder and Director, Center for Inclusive Democracy, USC Price School Panelists: Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, Los Angeles City Councilmember – District 1 Lian Cheun, Executive Director, Khmer Girls in Action Peggy Moore, Principal & Co-Owner at Hope Action Change Consulting
Behind Closed Doors | Part 3 This four-part webinar series took place from December 2022 to March 2023. It was hosted by the USC Price School and its Center for Inclusive Democracy, the California Black Freedom Fund, the Latino Community Foundation, and the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund. Part three of these moderated sessions explored the entrenchment of racism in U.S. politics, and its impact on political power and representation in communities. Titled “Behind Closed Doors,” these sessions served as a public space for open and challenging conversations examining the nation’s entrenched relationship between racism and politics, a situation recently brought further into the spotlight by the secret recording of a meeting of Los Angeles City Council members making racist remarks. Watch the full video below, or click here to watch the webinar highlights. Moderator: Amy Dominguez-Arms Philanthropic/Nonprofit Consultant Panelists: Pablo Rodriguez Executive Director, Communities for a New California Hector Sanchez Deputy Political Director, Community Coalition Cha Vang Deputy Director, AAPIs for Civic Empowerment James Woodson Executive Director, California Black Power Network
NCAAT | Mental Health Resources As a part of North Carolina Asian American Together‘s intern program, their summer intern Ollie created this resource guide because they had previously been unable to find mental health, AANHPI, and other resources geared specifically towards queer and trans BIPOC. Resources, ranging from organizations focusing on mental health to therapist directories to mental health websites and tools, are separated into the following categories: QTBIPOC (Queer POC and/or LGBTQIA+ resources) AANHPI Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Southeast Asian South Asian Visit the Resource Guide at this link.
Catalist | Analysis of AAPI Voters in the 2022 Midterms On May 18, 2023, Catalist published a comprehensive voter file analysis of the 2022 midterm with demographic breakdowns and a comparison of heavily contested and less contested elections. This was the first in a series of reports on What Happened in the 2022 general election from the perspective of the Catalist voter database, the longest-running outside the two major political parties. Building on its national What Happened analysis, Catalist produced 2022 Constituency Reports on October 19, 2023, to offer deep dives on specific constituency groups, including Black, Latino, AAPI, youth and women voters. As with Catalist’s 2022 What Happened report, these reports focus on the national House vote, different voting patterns in states with highly contested versus less contested statewide elections, and state-level performance. The reports also explore registration, primary voting, and ongoing shifts in which methods people use to vote. On AAPI voters, Catalist found: “Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are a rapidly growing and diversifying group in the United States and their voter engagement and participation have kept pace with this extraordinary growth. AAPI communities comprise a rapidly expanding share of registrants and voters and continue to support Democratic candidates at high rates. In a warning sign, however, Democratic support among AAPI voters declined between the 2020 Presidential election and the 2022 midterms nationally and in states with highly contested Senate and Gubernatorial races. Although our estimates suggest the decline was considerably smaller in highly contested states than nationally, there is greater uncertainty around shifts in highly contested 2022 states because of the relatively small share of the electorate in these states comprised of AAPI voters. AAPI registered voters have grown sharply as a share of all registered voters from 2014 to 2022, mirroring their population growth. These changes also reflect relatively high registration and turnout rates in recent elections, with AAPI turnout in 2022 notably remaining stable even when compared to the high-salience midterm of 2018. Their vote share nationally was 4 percent in both of the last two midterms. In states with highly contested 2022 Senate and Gubernatorial contests, where there is a relatively lower concentration of AAPI residents, their vote share also remained stable over this period, at 2 percent. AAPI voters continued to support Democrats at high rates. Both nationally and in highly contested states, about 6 in 10 AAPI voters are estimated to have voted Democratic. Despite being a relatively smaller share of Democrats’ multi-racial coalition than Black, Latino or white voters, in multiple close battleground races, the number of AAPI Democratic voters exceeded the win margins, underscoring the pivotal nature of this constituency. Nationally, however, Democratic support among AAPI voters declined by 7 percentage points between the 2020 Presidential election and 2022 House contests. Support declines in highly contested states were considerably smaller at an estimated 2 points. Our estimates also suggest that decreases in Democratic support were smaller among young AAPI voters and among AAPI voters in states with highly contested Senate and Gubernatorial elections. Finally, the composition of the AAPI electorate shifted along some demographic dimensions and remained stable along others across the last three midterm elections. Relative to 2014 and 2018, the 2022 AAPI electorate included slightly higher shares of Gen Z and Millennial voters, non-married voters, and suburban voters. Over this same period the composition of the AAPI electorate remained stable by gender and educational attainment. This report examines in close detail levels and trends across recent election cycles in registration, vote share, support, and vote method among AAPI voters, breaking out these topics by state and sub-constituency as relevant to illuminate key findings.” Click this link read the details and access graphics and charts from Catalist’s 2022 Constituency Report on AAPI Voters.