Washington University Resources
- Office of Institutional Equity
- Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity
- Danforth Staff Council
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Asian American Studies
- East Asian Languages and Culture
- East Asian Library
- Center for Diversity and Inclusion: Community Resource Guide (Restaurants, places of worship, grocery stores, etc.)
St. Louis Community Resources
- Asian American Chamber of Commerce
- Filipino American Association in Missouri
- Japanese American Citizens League: St. Louis Chapter
- Korean American Association St. Louis
- OCA St. Louis
- St. Louis Modern Chinese School
- St. Louis Mosaic Project
Resources for Mental Health: (list was curated by facilitators of a NASPA APIKC Processing space)
- Asians Do Therapy: https://asiansdotherapy.com/
- Asians for Mental Health: linktr.ee/asiansformentalhealth
- Asian Mental Health Collective: https://www.asianmhc.org/
- Asian Mental Health Project: https://asianmentalhealthproject.com/
- Brown Girl Therapy: linktr.ee/browngirltherapy
- Inclusive Therapists: https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/
- Melanin Mental Health: https://www.melaninandmentalhealth.com/
- National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association: https://www.naapimha.org/
- Project Lotus: https://www.theprojectlotus.org/
- South Asian Therapists: https://southasiantherapists.org/
- The Allied Minds: linktr.ee/thealliedmindsco
Somatic Specific Therapy Sites:
- Somatic Experiencing: traumahealing.org
- Generative Somatics: https://generativesomatics.org/
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: https://sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/
- Arise Embodiment: https://ariseembodiment.org/
Articles and Resources for Racial and Social Justice:
- Stand With Asian Americans: https://standwithasianamericans.com/
- “South Asians and Black Lives”: https://medium.com/@dviyer/south-asians-and-black-lives-b30adaba6a42
- “Tou Thao and the Myths of Asian American Solidarity”: https://timetosaygoodbyepod.substack.com/p/tou-thao-and-the-myths-of-asian-american?fbclid=IwAR3PDFTMeyWQjIl9C-wl-tEPm01hPpHSMRF4CDzfGKw8TfU9_cYQB38-99U
- “Officer who stood by as George Floyd died highlights complex Asian American, black relations” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/officer-who-stood-george-floyd-died-asian-american-we-need-n1221311
- “Minor Feelings” by Cathy Park Hong
- We gonna be alright by Jeff Chang
- 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now by Michelle Kim https://medium.com/awaken-blog/20-allyship-actions-for-asians-to-show-up-for-the-black-community-right-now-464e5689cf3e
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
- The Karma of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad
- Uncle Swami by Vijay Prashad
- “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans” by Claire Jean Kim (1999): breakdown of the anti-Black origins of the model minority stereotype. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032329299027001005
- Racial Sociometry theory – CJ Kim (2019) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race/article/are-asians-the-new-blacks/F61BE671C9BBC00E00B4C48FDCBE7D9B
- “How to Take Offense: Responding to Microaggression” by Regina Rini (2018, in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association) https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2018.23
- “Bad Asians: New Media by Queer Asian American Artists” by Eve Oishi: https://www.academia.edu/35785106/Oishi_Eve._Bad_Asians_New_Media_by_Queer_Asian_American_Artists_
- Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Anti-Racist. Penguin 2019
- https://www.google.com/amp/s/theprint.in/opinion/south-asians-in-the-us-must-support-blacklivesmatter-but-first-undo-your-own-anti-blackness/432754
- “’Model Minority’ Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks” (2017) https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks
- “The Community is Hurting”: Why We Need to Talk About Colorism and Bias in Asian American Communities, by Monique Laban (May 2, 2019) https://catapult.co/stories/why-we-need-to-talk-about-colorism-and-intra-community-bias-among-asian-americans-monique-laban
- Christine Huang (2017) The Toll of Historically Pitting Asians Against Blacks
- We too sing America by Deepa Iyer
- Lettersforblacklives.com
- 18millionrising.org/2020/07/callonme-update.html
Podcasts/Videos/Websites/Social Media
- Fresh off the Vote
- Asian Enough – LA Times
- Code Switch – NPR
- https://lettersforblacklives.com/ (tool for conversations with families in 25 different languages)
- (documentary) American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs https://americanrevolutionaryfilm.com
- Dear Asian Americans
- “Bring in Brown to Keep Black Down” by Alok Vaid Menon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUCbPKbjoGk
- PBS Asian Americans (https://www.pbs.org/show/asian-americans/) – Good intro Asian Am history documentary, which takes a relational approach.(*You can skip the tech bros section.)
- Resources for Non-Black Asians on Anti-Blackness mega resource list
- Tasha K. Ryals: Anti-racism Resource Guide
- “South Asians in the US must support #BlackLivesMatter, but first undo your own anti-Blackness”, Deepa Iyer (May 28, 2020)
- The Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit – Offers workshop modules, lessons learned, and other reflections from 15 grassroots Asian American community orgs
- Chinese language materials: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1woqtCXErbDncnKUWlgiEKaN6btcobBAmfQp7BiYJ_T8/edit?fbclid=IwAR2dNchxAk4DjXq-6xizl0cio9zXV6qEWhrWsJ4DYDBMyxAKANt8ehCCMxg
- People’s Collective for Justice and Liberation addresses Anti-Asian Racism and builds cross racial solidarity with other communities of color – town hall events https://peoplescollective4jl.org/events
- 18 Million Rising (18MR) brings together Asian American communities online and offline to reimagine Asian American identity with nuance, specificity, and power with allies – https://18millionrising.org/