AAPI faculty and staff at UCLA recommend media that provide insights into history, culture, struggle and contributions Jessica Wolf |
Editor’s note: This story was updated on May 20 to include additional recommendations.
One of the most powerful ways we come to know the world and each other is through media books, movies, music. Telling and sharing stories, stories that pique our curiosity and expose us to new ideas, can lead us down the path of empathy, understanding and solidarity.
As part of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we asked staff and faculty from UCLA’s Asian American Studies Center and across campus to share some suggestions of things to read, watch or listen to that celebrate the history, culture, struggle and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
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A recent rash of anti-Asian hate crimes in California is continuing, with more verbal and physical assaults reported in the last week.
An Asian American woman was spat on and called racial slurs in her own garage. Another woman was punched and bombarded with racial comments in a park.
On a bus in Eagle Rock, an attacker apparently mistook an elderly Latina woman for Asian, calling her an anti-Chinese slur before reportedly pulling her hair and breaking her nose.
Seemingly bothered by the drumbeat of hate, a Korean man in Orange County allegedly kidnapped a woman he thought was white but who turned out to be Asian.
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Asian American Sisters in the Movement for Racial Liberation
Apr 12, 2021
The author, Nobuko Miyamoto, attends the opening night of “Allegiance” at Japanese American Cultural & Community Center on Feb. 28, 2018, in Los Angeles.
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A look back at inter-racial solidarity between Black Americans and Asian Americans, from Nobuko Miyamoto in “Not Yo’ Butterfly.”
From internment camp to Broadway to activism, Nobuko Miyamoto steered her life toward creativity and liberation. In this excerpt from her memoir, Not Yo’ Butterfly (forthcoming, University of California Press, 2021), she describes how working on films about the Black Panthers and the Young Lords in the late 1960s led her to Yuri Kochiyama and a sanctuary for inter-racial solidarity.
L.A. County Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative Calls for Unity Against Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
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On behalf of the Los Angeles County Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion (ARDI) Initiative, we join the many voices condemning the recent surge of hate crimes and violence against our Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.
We also grieve with our AAPI community members, and all who are impacted by racially motivated acts of brutality. Our condolences go out to the victims, their families and friends, and the community.
The high-profile shootings that recently occurred in Atlanta and took the lives of eight individuals happened alongside numerous reported attacks against our AAPI communities. According to the #StopAAPIHate campaign, this rise in violent crimes has led to more than 3,795 reported anti-Asian hate incidents in the past year.