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
Equality Labs | Anti-Doxing Guide for Activists Equality Labs is a transnational South Asian feminist organization working at the cutting-edge intersections of organizing, art, and digital security to end caste apartheid, gender-based violence, Islamophobia, and religious intolerance. It is composed of artists, advocates, healers, technologists and organizers working on intractable systems of oppression through a collaborative solution-making model for movements. Since Equality Labs published its first anti-doxing guide in 2017, the practice of doxing has evolved dramatically. Its team team wanted to revisit this topic and give communities the opportunity to take digital security into their own hands. Equity Labs hope that this guide will encourage and prepare you to build a comprehensive safety plan within your communities. It has created this anti-doxing guide to support activists around the world who may be targeted for resisting white supremacy, Islamophobia, casteism, antisemitism, anti-LGBTQ+ harassment, or any form of authoritarianism. Read the guide below, and see its website for more research and publications. ADVANCE-COPY_-EQUALITY-LABS-ANTI-DOXING-GUIDE-FOR-ACTIVISTS-3.0
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
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Civic and Political Life of California’s Asian Americans Written by Milan Vaishnav and Nitya Labh and published in February 2023, this is the fourth in a series of articles that explore the political and social preferences of Asian Americans in California, a state where today Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders make up nearly 16 percent of the state’s population. Like the others in the series, this article draws on a 2022 online survey of 1,000 California-based Asian Americans conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in partnership with the data and analytics firm YouGov. The sample includes respondents from twenty-one Asian-origin groups but excludes Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. Specifically, this article examines patterns of civic and political engagement among California’s Asian Americans. It focuses on how respondents engage with their communities, how they relate to politics, and how they interact with political campaigns—both as campaign contributors and consumers. The first article in this series explored the political preferences of the community in the run-up to the 2022 midterm elections, while the second looked at their policy preferences, and the third unpacked the nature of Asian American identity. The fifth and final article in this series will explore the community’s foreign policy attitudes. Read the article below or access it at this link. Vaishnav_Asian_American_civic_political
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