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Books, Articles & More

• Cabrillo Library Databases  Search subject databases such as America:  History & Life, Literature Resource Center, and U.S. Newsstream.

Primary Sources:  Library Collections

Primary Sources: Digital Collections

• California Cultures: Asian Americans -- primary from California libraries and museums

• Calisphere:  Japanese American Relocation Digtial Archive -- primary sources from California libraries & museums

• Asian Pacific American Heritage Month -- exhibits & digital collections from National Libraries & Museums

• Digital Public Library of America -- primary sources from libraries across the U.S.

• Library of Congress -- primary sources

• Docs Teach -- primary sources from the National Archives

• Chinese Railroad Workers Project--exhibits & digitial collections from Stanford University 

Primary Sources: Museums

• Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
• Asian Art Museum
• Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)
• Japanese American National Museum

Pew Research Center:  Asian Americans

U.S. Census:  Statistics

• U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey contains current statistics for Asians and specific ethnic groups. Data by Topic includes Race and Ethnicity.

UCLA Asian American Studies Center: Statistics

• Statistical Portrait of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Other Pacific Islanders

Library Resources:

 Books & Articles:

• Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence
•  Asian American Studies Now a Critical Reader
• "Seven Reasons to Care About Racism and COVID-19 and Seven Things to Do to Stop It.” 
• “Racial Violence Against Asian Americans.” 
• “Anti-Asian Xenophobia and Asian American COVID-19 Disparities.”
• "Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of Asian Americans.”

Videos

• How Coronavirus Is Stoking Racism Against Asian People
• REMEMBER. RECORD. RESPECT: History of Anti-AAPI Violence and Discrimination

News Sources: Anti-Asian Sentiment & COVID-19

• ​​​​Asian Americans have been verbally and physically attacked, shunned during pandemic
• Asian Americans reported 3,800 hate-related incidents during the pandemic
• ‘Hate is learned’: Tracing the history of anti-Asian violence in America
• Asian-Americans Are Being Attacked. Why Are Hate Crime Charges So Rare?
• Asian American community battles surge in hate crimes stirred from COVID-19

Reports & Statistics
Learn more about the recent wave of attacks against the AAPI community and the intersection between misogyny and white supremacy in these two publications:

• Stop AAPI Hate National Report
• When Women are the Enemy: The Intersection of Misogyny and White Supremacy
• Anti-Asian Hate Crime in U.S. Rises During Pandemic Year