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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.

A clip of a painting by Aaron Douglas titled "Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction." A man stands in a field holding a candle, pointing to the silhoutte of a building on a hill. Others in the field are look towards where he poinst while picking cotton. To the far right, figures stand with their arms stretched towards the sky while soldiers march in the background.

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.

A group of protestors march holding a banner. A few hold their phones raised, and the screens show the image of a lock. One protestor raises their fist in solidarity.

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.

A screenshot of the map of incarceration sites from Densho's Sites of Shame, 2023.

Densho | Map of Japanese Incarceration Sites

In 2005, Densho launched Sites of Shame, which immediately became one of the most visited sections of its website. But after a decade or so, due to both changes in the technology and new information about the sites, it became clear that the original website had become increasingly outdated. In 2017, Densho received a federal Japanese American Confinement Sites grant through the National Park Service to update the site. This was followed by grants from California Civil Liberties Public Education Program and the Kip Tokuda Memorial Washington Civil Liberties Public Education Program.

This new version of Sites of Shame launched in 2021. The interactive map contains information, locations, and ephemera pertaining to sites of incarceration. Users can also trace the journeys of specific families. For more information on the map and data sources, visit this link.

Learn more about the history of the incarceration at Densho.org

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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.

Digital Projects on the Black Experience

Please view below a list of digital projects on the Black experience: 

  1. Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History 
    University of North Carolina 
    https://vimeo.com/stonecenter 
  1. The Black Bibliography Project 
    https://blackbibliog.org/ 
  1. eBlack Champaign Urbana 
    http://eblackcu.net/portal/ 
  1. Digital Black Bibliographic Project 
    https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/175142 
  1. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman in live motion 
    https://www.upworthy.com/frederick-douglass-harriet-tubman-in-live-motion 
  1. Civil Rights Movement Archive 
    https://www.crmvet.org/ 
  1. Digital Harlem 
    http://digitalharlem.org/ 
  1. Digital Schomburg 
    https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg 
  1. Black Past Digital Archives 
    https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/digital-archives/ 
  1. Mapping Police Violence 
    https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ 
  1. Digital slave voyages 
    https://www.slavevoyages.org/ 
  1. 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 
  1. Digital Black History 
    https://digitalblackhistory.com/ 
  1. One million truths 
    https://www.onemilliontruths.com/ 
  1. Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library 
    https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/slavery-abolition-emancipation-and-freedom 
  1. Black Stories Matter 
    https://www.tmiproject.org/blackstoriesmatter/ 
  1. Penn State Digital Projects and Exhibits 
    https://digblk.psu.edu/ 
    https://libraries.psu.edu/about/libraries/special-collections-library/digital-projects-and-exhibits 
  1. Digital Archives in the Black Past 
    https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/digital-archives/ 
  1. Black Craftspeople Digital Archive 
    https://blackcraftspeople.org/ 
  1. Colored Conventions Project 
    https://coloredconventions.org/ 
  1. The Black Press 
    http://blackpressresearchcollective.org/ 
  1. Howard University – Black Newspapers 
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/02/27/howard-university-digitize-archives-black-newspapers-history/6882445001/ 
  1. Clark Atlanta University 
    https://www.cau.edu/school-of-arts-and-sciences/doctor-philosophy-humanities/The-Center-for-Africana-Digital-Humanities.html 
  1. University of Nottingham 
    https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/c3r/research/digital-projects.aspx 
  1. The digital abolitionist 
    https://www.thedigitalabolitionist.com/ 
  1. Las Vegas 
    http://digital.library.unlv.edu/aae 
  1. Center for Black Digital Research 
    https://digblk.psu.edu/ 
  1. Umbra Search: University of Minnesota 
    https://www.umbrasearch.org/ 
  1. Digital Projects Amistad Research Center 
    https://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/digital-projects 
  1. James Baldwin Digital Resource Guide 
    https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/chez-baldwin/digital-resource-guide 
  1. The Project on the History of Black Writing 
    https://projecthbw.ku.edu/ 

Scene on the Radio | Seeing White

Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending racial inequity in schools, housing, criminal justice, and hiring. Some of this feels new, but in truth it’s an old story.

Why? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?

Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August 2017.

See the trailer below and listen to the entire series HERE

TIME Magazine | 11 Moments From Asian American History That You Should Know

More than 30 years after President George H.W. Bush signed a law that designated May 1990 as the first Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, much of Asian American history remains unknown to many Americans—including many Asian Americans themselves.

To help fill the knowledge gap, TIME asked historians and experts on Asian American history nationwide to pick one milestone from this history that they believe should be taught in K-12 schools, and to explain how it provides context for where America is today. Click here to read the moments they chose.

Lillie Chin, mother of Vincent Chin, who was clubbed to death by two white men in June 1982, breaks down as a relative (L), helps her walk while leaving Detroit’s City County Building.
A slide reading: "Welcome to Digital Safety: Workplace Safety Planning for Home, Field, or Office; How to Secure Networks and Devices"

re:power | Digital Safety Workshop

re:power exists to build a critical mass of social justice movements and their leaders who embody the ideology and practice of liberatory organizing, an organizing practice that is pro-Black and grounded in community, collective action, and abundance. It offers training and strategic support to leaders and organizations across the progressive ecosystem with base building as the cornerstone of organizing and power building.

See below for the fourth and final training in a series developed by re:power for activists and organizations to better protect themselves from potential harm in the digital sphere. More digital resource guides can be accessed by request on re:power’s resources page.

A slide reading: "Welcome to Digital Safety: Safer Communication & Internet Browsing"

re:power | Digital Safety Workshop

re:power exists to build a critical mass of social justice movements and their leaders who embody the ideology and practice of liberatory organizing, an organizing practice that is pro-Black and grounded in community, collective action, and abundance. It offers training and strategic support to leaders and organizations across the progressive ecosystem with base building as the cornerstone of organizing and power building.

See below for the third training in a series developed by re:power for activists and organizations to better protect themselves from potential harm in the digital sphere. More digital resource guides can be accessed by request on re:power’s resources page.