Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History

Writing about Asian America

• AAJA commends The New York Times’ Decision to Drop the Hyphen in “Asian American”
• The inadequacy of the term “Asian American”

Curricular Resources

• APALA Rubric to Evaluate Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth Literature
• Asian American Studies Curriculum Framework
  
• Sample Scope & Sequence for Grades K-5
• Sample Scope & Sequence for Grades 6-12
• The Asian American Education Project
• Teaching Resources: Facing History & Ourselves
• CPS' Skinner North Integrates Asian American history into curriculum in interactive ways
• Lesson Plan: Who is Fred Korematsu and Why is He an American Hero?
• Lesson Plan: Witness to Oppression
• Lesson Plan: Pearl Harbor & Executive Order 9066
• Lesson Plan: How are We Defined as Americans?
• Lesson Planning Framework: Unlearning the HUSH

Intersectional Issues

• How Institutions can Improve AAPI Students' Mental Health
• Asian Pacific Americans with Disabilities: Our Stories, Our Lives
• Asian Pacific Islander LGBTQI+ Resource Kit
• Erasure-and-Resilience-AAPI-2020
• Queer in Asian America
• Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience 

Websites & Archives

• Densho Encyclopedia (primary sources!)
• South Asian American Digital Archive
• The Choices Program (Brown University)
• Asian American Studies Center (UCLA)

Books

For Students

• The Great Wall of Lucy Wu
• The Whole Story of Half a Girl
• Recommendations from the Very Asian Foundation

For Students and Teachers

• The Magnitude of Us: An Educator's Guide to Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms
• The Making of Asian America
• The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History
• An Unseen Unheard Minority: Asian American Students at the University of Illinois
• Where I Go, I Will Always be a Loyal American: Seattle's Japanese American Schoolchildren During World War II

Affirming AAPI Intersectional and Multiracial Histories

Responses to Florida's AAPI Education Bill

• DeSantis criticized for mandating Asian American history while banning courses on 'systemic racism'
• Stop AAPI Hate's Response