We Are More | AAPI Art & Stories We Are More is an art series which seeks to break down tired worn out cliches and stereotypes of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and forge in its stead a brilliant, multidimensional identity that encompasses the resilience and range of AAPIs. Featuring dynamic visuals, bold typography, and human stories, this art series consists of seven free digital posters. In May 2021, this series was on view in Times Square, New York City, in partnership with Times Square Arts; subsequent installations appeared in Boston and other cities around the United States. The website also features stories from Asian Americans and a discussion guide based on 20 hand-selected prompts and inquiries from the We Are More campaign, designed to facilitate discussion and exploration of the AAPI experience. This guide is freely available to educators, activists, and allies. Website visitors are also welcome to submit their own stories.
Define American & USC | Report on Immigrant Representation on Television Define American, with USC Norman Lear Center’s Media Impact Project, presents the third television impact study: Change the Narrative, Change the World: The Power of Immigrant Representation on Television. Define American looked at the portrayal of immigrant characters on 79 scripted television shows that aired between July 2020 and June 2022 and surveyed viewers on how four immigration storylines shaped their attitudes toward immigrants in the real world. The findings? Immigrant representation on television has shifted in important ways — both positive and negative — since 2020. Read the report here or below. ENT-Report-Final-2022Download
Convergence Partnership | Funding Narrative Change, An Assessment and Framework The Convergence Partnership commissioned the groundbreaking report, Funding Narrative Change, An Assessment and Framework, the first ever to focus exclusively on the narrative change funding landscape. The report’s authors propose a framework for funders and practitioners to shift narratives via mass culture, mass media, and mass movements. It’s a must read for funders and practitioners who want to ensure greater efficacy in their narrative change efforts. Access the report here and watch the recordings below: Recording: Funding Narrative Change for PRACTITIONERS 10.25.22 Recording: Funding Narrative Change for FUNDERS 10.27.22
CAA | Fake News, Real Consequences: The Growing Threat of Chinese-Language Disinformation Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) produced a report on misinformation and disinformation among Chinese American communities. PiYaoBa-Report-Fake-News-Real-ConsequencesDownload
Reviving Sisterhood | Expressions Narrative Project Reviving Sisterhood‘s Expressions Narrative Project is a platform dedicated to the voices and perspectives of Muslim women, from activists and artists to professors and political representatives. Over 50 women have contributed their personal narratives and opinions. Topics include voting, leadership, philanthropy, reclaiming one’s power, faith and activism, community care, and advocating for change. Visit the website to view the project and read individual stories. Visitors are also invited to submit their own stories using a form on the webpage.
VAAAM | Asian American Art Activism Relational Map The Virtual Asian American Art Museum (VAAAM) is a multi-year, inter-institutional digital humanities project initiated and led by the following major partners: the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, NYU Libraries, Getty Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution, Bowdoin Art Museum, San Francisco State University, DePaul University, Tome, Artl@s/BasART, and Japanese American Service Committee in Chicago. Co-curated by Yvonne Fang and Alexandra Chang, the Asian American Art Activism Relational Map is an ongoing project to visualize the interconnections and collaborative nature of Asian American art movements and the ongoing landscape of Asian American art activism. Learn more and see the map at this link. If you’d like to add a resource to this map, fill out the survey here.
Feeling Asian | Asian-American Studies 201 Feeling Asian is a weekly podcast hosted by Youngmi Mayer and Brian Park, two Asian Americans with plenty of feelings about sex, dating, survival, self-worth, and everything in between. Named a top podcast of 2021 by CNN and featured on Apple and Spotify’s homepages, Feeling Asian offers a healthy and compassionate space for Asians, Asian Americans, and Asians in America to be themselves without feeling as if their time is a fleeting moment. New episodes are released every Wednesday. This episode features guests Dr. Russell Jeung (Professor at San Francisco State University, Founder of Stop AAPI Hate) and Anuradha Vikram (Curator and Faculty at UCLA, Co-Founder of Stop DiscriminAsian), who speak to event or timeline in Asian American history that has become misunderstood or revised along the way.
MAF | Abolitionist V. Reforms Tool The Muslim Abolitionist Futures (MAF) Network is working towards building a world where we all live with dignity, freedom and justice. MAF’s goal is to abolish the “Global War on Terror (GWOT).” GWOT is a system of death and destruction that exists through policies, programs, and laws that target Muslim communities, communities racialized as Muslim, and more broadly Black and Brown communities targeted under the false guise of national security. This tool was developed by the Muslim Abolitionist Futures Network’s Abolition and Policy Working Group that is led by Muslims for Just Futures. Muslim Abolitionist Futures is a network of grassroots organizations across the country, and is co-anchored by Muslims for Just Futures, Vigilant Love, HEART Women & Girls, and Queer Crescent. The goal of this tool is to support organizations, collectives, groups, and community members committed to moving with abolitionist values in their policy advocacy efforts. The intention is to support groups and community members discern the type of policies that expand and further entrench the Global War on Terror, and the type of policies that can move us toward its abolition. The hope is to share a framework for policy objectives and oversight demands that move us toward our collaborative vision of abolition to the “Global War on Terror.” Public+Shareable+MAF+Abolitionist+V.+Reforms+Tool+-1
Digital Projects on the Black Experience Please view below a list of digital projects on the Black experience: Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History University of North Carolina https://vimeo.com/stonecenter The Black Bibliography Project https://blackbibliog.org/ eBlack Champaign Urbana http://eblackcu.net/portal/ Digital Black Bibliographic Project https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/175142 Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman in live motion https://www.upworthy.com/frederick-douglass-harriet-tubman-in-live-motion Civil Rights Movement Archive https://www.crmvet.org/ Digital Harlem http://digitalharlem.org/ Digital Schomburg https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg Black Past Digital Archives https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/digital-archives/ Mapping Police Violence https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ Digital slave voyages https://www.slavevoyages.org/ ASALH Digital Projects listed in Fire! https://www-jstor-org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/stable/10.5323/fire.4.1.0134#metadata_info_tab_contents Digital Black History https://digitalblackhistory.com/ One million truths https://www.onemilliontruths.com/ Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/slavery-abolition-emancipation-and-freedom Black Stories Matter https://www.tmiproject.org/blackstoriesmatter/ Penn State Digital Projects and Exhibits https://digblk.psu.edu/ https://libraries.psu.edu/about/libraries/special-collections-library/digital-projects-and-exhibits Digital Archives in the Black Past https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/digital-archives/ Black Craftspeople Digital Archive https://blackcraftspeople.org/ Colored Conventions Project https://coloredconventions.org/ The Black Press http://blackpressresearchcollective.org/ Howard University – Black Newspapers https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/02/27/howard-university-digitize-archives-black-newspapers-history/6882445001/ Clark Atlanta University https://www.cau.edu/school-of-arts-and-sciences/doctor-philosophy-humanities/The-Center-for-Africana-Digital-Humanities.html University of Nottingham https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/c3r/research/digital-projects.aspx The digital abolitionist https://www.thedigitalabolitionist.com/ Las Vegas http://digital.library.unlv.edu/aae Center for Black Digital Research https://digblk.psu.edu/ Umbra Search: University of Minnesota https://www.umbrasearch.org/ Digital Projects Amistad Research Center https://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/digital-projects James Baldwin Digital Resource Guide https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/chez-baldwin/digital-resource-guide The Project on the History of Black Writing https://projecthbw.ku.edu/
Stop AAPI Hate | 2 Years and 1000s of Voices: What Community-Generated Data Tells Us About Anti-AAPI Hate Chinese for Affirmative Action, AAPI Equity Alliance (formerly the Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council), and San Francisco State University’s Asian American Studies Department launched the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center on March 19, 2020. The report looks at the nearly 11,500 hate acts reported to the Stop AAPI Hate reporting center between March 19, 2020 and March 31, 2022, and includes findings from a 2021 national survey Stop AAPI Hate conducted in partnership with Edelman Data & Intelligence. Key findings of Two Years and Thousands of Voices include: Non-criminal incidents comprise the vast majority of the harmful hate acts that AAPI community members experience. Harassment is a major problem. Two in three (67%) of nearly 11,500 incidents involved harassment, such as verbal or written hate speech or inappropriate gestures. AAPI individuals who are also female, non-binary, LGBTQIA+, and/or elderly experience hate acts that target them for more than one of their identities at once. One in three (32%) parents who participated in the Stop AAPI Hate/Edelman Data & Intelligence survey were concerned about their child being a victim of anti-AAPI hate or discrimination in unsupervised spaces and on the way to school. Hate happens everywhere — in both large cities and small towns, in AAPI enclaves and in places where AAPI communities are few and far between. The report also lays out Stop AAPI Hate’s approach to addressing anti-AAPI hate: education equity, community-driven safety solutions and civil rights expansion. Read the press release at this link and see the full report below. 22-SAH-NationalReport-July-F