Resources for Expanding Our Thinking about How Asian American Studies Can Be
Brought to Our Communities
Reflection Essays
Grace Lee Boggs, "Education to Govern"
http://www.boggscenter.org/ideas/books/edu-to-govern.shtml
Tony Osumi, "Teamwork and People Power: Liberatory Teaching in the Elementary Classroom"
http://www.kuidaosumi.com/TOwriting/amerasia-teaching.html
Tony Osumi, "Feast of Resistance: The Creation of an Asian American Celebration"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring00/webmag_197j/tony_fea.html
Tony Osumi, "Making Murals: A Mural Making Guide for K-12 Teachers"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring00/webmag_197j/tony_mur.html
Elizabeth Delgado, "My Family and My Culture"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/fall01/aas197j/elizabethd1.html
William Gow, "Autobiography as History"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter03/aas116/wgow1.html
Melissa Hilario, "Redefining My Life Goals and Aspirations"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/fall01/aas197j/melissah1.html
Jessica Kim, TJ Lee, and Hyun-Ja Pak, "Market Workers Justice Campaign"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter02/aas197a/mworkers.html
Linda Lam, "Why Did You Come to America?"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter04/aas116/essay1llam.pdf
Katie Li, "Learning from the Residents of Boston Chinatown"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter04/aas116/essay1kli.pdf
Allan Lo, "My Life and History"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter03/aas116/alo1.html
Alejandro Lopez, "Making a Difference in the World"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter04/aas116/essay1alopez.pdf
Suzanne Luu, "Consequences of a War"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter03/aas116/sluu1.html
Sarah Mamaril, "Stepping Stones toward a Successful Future"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter04/aas116/essay1smamaril.pdf
Raymond Ramirez, "Shaping Our Destinies"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/fall01/aas197j/rayr1.html
Cheryl Sampson, "A First Generation Pinay’s Experience: Transformation and Reponsibility"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/fall01/aas197j/cheryls1.html
Roderick Sasis, "Freedom and Justice For All? Filipino American Veterans 'Served but Don’'t
Deserve'"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/fall97/M163/sasis4.html
Mina Son, "My Role in Governing Change"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/fall01/aas197j/minas1.html
Christine Tran, "Autobiography and History"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/99F/asian197j-1/es1ttran.html
Ali Wong, "Discoveries Terrible and Magnificent"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter04/aas116/essay1awong.pdf
Rena Wong, "A Total Pitufina China"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/99F/asian197j-1/es1rwong.html
Pa Xiong, "Hmong Means Free . . . Or Does It?"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/fall97/M163/xiong3.html
Diane Yi, "The Head, the Hand, and the Heart"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring00/webmag_197j/dianayi1.html
Diana Yi, "Student Community Activism"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring00/webmag_197j/dianayi-sca.html
Glenn Omatsu, "Freedom Schooling: Reconceptualizing Asian American Studies for Our
Communities"
http://www.boggscenter.org/ideas/edu/omatsu.shtml
Glenn Omatsu, "Feeding the Mind and Polishing the Soul: A Film Series for Asian American
Studies Boot Camp"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring00/webmag_197j/boot_cam.html
Glenn Omatsu, "Teaching for Social Change: Learning How to Afflict the Comfortable and
Comfort the Afflicted"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring00/webmag_197j/loyola.html
Glenn Omatsu, "Fists of Fury and Legend: What Asian American College Students Can Learn
from Bruce Lee and Jet Li"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring00/webmag_197j/fist.html
Glenn Omatsu, "Praxis: Question, Think, Act"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring00/webmag_197j/pomona.html
Glenn Omatsu, "Defying a Thousand Pointing Fingers and Serving the Children: Re-envisioning
the Mission of Asian American Studies in Our Communities"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/99F/asian197j-1/Omatsu.htm
Glenn Omatsu, "One Struggle, Many Fronts: Political Challenges Facing Asian American and
Pacific Islander Students Today"
http://www.aamovement.net/student/lttspeech.html
Glenn Omatsu, "Filling the Hole in the Soul: New Otani Hotel Workers and Ethnic Studies"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring00/webmag_197j/racefile.html
Glenn Omatsu, "Unfinished Tasks in Asian American Studies"
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/glennomatsuspeech2004.pdf
Resources for Learning and Teaching
Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
Website promoting the ideas of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs; includes essays on
Freedom Schooling for this period.
http://www.boggscenter.org/
Bridge Teaching Demonstration Website
This website explores the special challenges of teaching low-income, underprepared
college freshmen who are often the first in their families to attend college.
http://www.csun.edu/eop/htdocs/bridgedemo/
Educational Leadership
Each issue of this magazine focuses on an issue related to education and teaching.
http://www.ascd.org/frameedlead.html
Educators for Social Responsibility
ESR's mission is to "make teaching social responsibility a core practice in education so
that young people develop the convictions and skills needed to shape a safe, sustainable,
democratic, and just world."
http://www.esrnational.org
Faculty Mentor Program
Resources from California State University, Northridge, focusing on ways to incorporate
the concept of mentoring into teaching and other interactions with students.
http://www.csun.edu/eop/htdocs/fmp.html
Healthwrights
Website for David Werner, co-author of Helping Health Workers Learn, an excellent
book applying the ideas of Freire to grassroots education for social change.
http://www.healthwrights.org
Kathy Shrock's Guide for Educators
An annotated list of teaching resources, lesson plans, and other tools.
http://www.4j.lane.edu/tilt/tools_teacher/workshop/nehs/nehs.html
Learning and Teaching
Excellent list of links on learning theory and an overview of main approaches; created by
James Atherton.
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/%7Ejamesa/learning/
Learning Community Commons
Resource web center for creating learning communities in colleges and universities to
promote student learning.
http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/
Mind/Brain Learning Principles
Summary of ideas of Renate Nummela Caine and Geoffrey Caine on implications of
latest research on the human brain for teaching in the classroom.
http://www.newhorizons.org/neuro/caine.htm
A Primer on How Learning Happens
From the National Education Association's "Thriving in Academe" series.
http://www.nea.org/he/advo02/advo0602/feature.html
The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
Includes sample lesson plans for K-12 classrooms on values of compassion and caring.
http://www.actsofkindness.org
Rethinking Schools
Lesson plans and other resources for K-12 teachers interested in social justice.
http://www.rethinkingschools.org
Teaching and Learning Strategies
Strategies described include character education, cooperative learning, democratic
classroom, learning styles, multicultural education, and service-learning.
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/front_strategies.html
Teaching for Change
Books and other resources for teachers interested in linking classroom education to social
change; publisher of the important book, Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K12
Multicultural, Anti-Racist Education and Staff Development, which contains numerous lesson
plans relating to social justice.
http://www.teachingforchange.org
Teaching Techniques and Lesson Plans
Extensive list of lesson plans for K-12 classrooms, with special sections on teaching
literature and history; created by Dr. Janice Patten and updated regularly.
http://theliterarylink.com/teaching.html
Teaching Tolerance
Educational resources for teachers and students, including classroom exercises.
http://www.splcenter.org/teachingtolerance/tt-index.html
Asian American Studies Class Websites and Student Projects
Asian American Community Education and Youth Empowerment
Explores ways that college students can work with K-12 teachers to respond to
educational needs of in an elementary school classroom.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/fall01/aas197j/ Asian American Contemporary Issues
Professor Steven Ropp’s online class on Asian American contemporary issues.
http://www.csun.edu/~smr78195/aas345/
Asian American Culture and History Webquest
Simon Chiu‘s web quest project providing the cultural and historical context for
understanding the book M. Butterfly.
http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/edad728/AsianDay/Asian%20Day.html
Asian American and Latino Cultural History Museum
Tony Osumi mobilizes graduate students to create a cultural museum for third graders;
includes a “museum how-to guide” and children’s comments about the exhibits.
http://centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/TEP/Program/archive/fall_01_ed408c/cultural.museum/index.html
Asian American Movement
Students apply lessons from the Asian American Movement of the early 1970s to issues
facing communities today.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/mvmt/
Asian American Social Movements: Mobilizing for Peace and Justice
On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, students mobilize fellow students around
issues relating to peace and justice.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter03/aas116/index.html
Asian American Social Movements: The Role of Students in Redefining Asian American Studies
UCLA students redefine the mission of Asian American Studies to serve the needs of
communities.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/99F/asian197j-1/webmag99.htm
Asian American Student Community Activism
Examines the "pivotal role that Asian Pacific Islander students have played in community
organizing, both historically and today."
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring00/webmag_197j/index.html
Asian American Studies & Community Webpage
Professor Eric Mar's homepage contains links to community organizations, current
events, and other resources.
http://online.sfsu.edu/~ericmar/
Asian American Studies and Students, "How the West Was Won-Ton"
Professor Ellen Wu's class focuses on issues affecting Asian American youth.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/faculty/ellenwu/asian100/
Asian Americans Share Their History
High school students present a workshop to fellow students on Asian Pacific American
history.
http://www.inform.umd.edu/News/Eclipse/eclipse/4-7-98/4-7-98-history.html
Asian Pacific American Labor Studies
Through participatory research on Asian immigrant labor struggles in Los Angeles,
UCLA students help a community organization create a documentary on grassroots labor
struggles.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter02/aas197a/index.html
Asian Pacific American Labor Studies (community internships)
Students participate in internships in organizing campaigns involving immigrant garment,
market, and newspaper workers.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring02/aas197b/index.html
Asian Pacific American Leadership Development
Professor Emily Lawsin helps her students to learn through community practice.
https://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2003/winter/amcult/309/001.nsf
Brown from the Sun
Students compile resources relating to Filipino and Filipino American literature.
http://eths.sfsu.edu/aas363s2003/resource.html
Electronic Pedagogy Project
Project bringing together Asian American Studies faculty and students from campuses in
the Northeast and Midwest around discussions based on common texts.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/eoc/EP/epindex.html
Feast of Resistance
Educator Tony Osumi's lesson plan using food to teach Asian American history. See also
his use of the lesson plan for a class of graduate students preparing for future work as K-12
teachers (see second web link below).
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/spring00/webmag_197j/tony_fea.html
http://centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/TEP/Program/archive/fall_01_ed408c/feast_resistance/index.html
Field Notes & Photographs from San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle
Professor James Sobredo uses his expertise in photography and research to show students
how to do an assignment about visits to historic Asian American communities.
http://www.csus.edu/aas/aas-faculty/sobredo-fieldnotes-7-99.htm
Filipino American Veterans Campaign for Justice and Equity
Students mobilize to support the campaign for justice and equity of WW II Filipino
American veterans.
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/%7Ehoangv/aas197j/
Frisbie Middle School Dragonwings Project
An interdisciplinary set of lesson plans designed around the book Dragonwings by
Laurence Yep.
http://www.rialto.k12.ca.us/frisbie/coyote/dragon.html
Immigration: Angel Island vs. Ellis Island
Julius Yap and Liz Swarthout's web project comparing the historical experiences of
immigrants entering Angel Island and Ellis Island.
http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/edad728/immigration/immigration.html
Information Technology in Teaching
Professor Jerry Kang's website shows how information technology can "help us become
better law professors, in our scholarship, teaching, and service."
http://www1.law.ucla.edu/~kang/Scholarship/Cyberspace/IT_in_Teaching/it_in_teaching.html
Interactive Chinese American History
Professor Sandra Liu's class includes an historical timeline and other resources.
http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~asam121/
Investigative Journalism and People of Color: Race Relations in L.A.
Web magazine of student writings examines race relations in Los Angeles.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/fall98/M163/webmag.html
Investigative Journalism and People of Color: Words of Color
Web magazine of student writings examines interethnic conflict and cooperation.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/fall97/M163/index.html
Japanese American Internment Project
C. John Yu's research website on the WW II internment of Japanese Americans.
http://www.oz.net/~cyu/internment/main.html
Lesson Plans: Asian American Studies
Lesson plans relating to Asian American history for K-12 classrooms compiled by public
television station KQED.
http://www.kqed.org/topics/education/educators/lessons/asian-american.jsp
Making Murals, Making History
Educator Tony Osumi’s guide for mural-making for K-12 teachers.
http://www.kuidaosumi.com/murals/muralguide.html
Moving Words: Asian Immigration
Four lesson plans on Asian American history by Barbara Kramarz.
http://www.intranet.csupomona.edu/%7Etassi/moving.htm
Oral Histories
Professor James Sobredo uses hypernews to have students share oral histories collected
about their families for an introductory class in Asian American Studies.
http://www.vcsun.org/%7Ejsobredo/Oral-Spring2000.htm
Religious Studies
Professor Amir Hussain's homepage provides links to understanding Islam and other
world religions as well as links to his favorite band and poet William Blake.
http://www.csun.edu/~ah34999/
Teaching to Change L.A.
Online magazine explores the theme "What Does Democracy Look Like?" through
lesson plans created for kindergarten, elementary school, and high school classes.
http://tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/democracy/home.html
Teaching with Historic Places
K-12 lesson plans about early Asian immigrant enclaves of Locke and Walnut Grove in
California and factors behind the WW II incarceration of Japanese Americans.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/may00.htm
Tufts Chinatown Project
Students respond to the needs of Boston Chinatown through class projects under the
supervision of Professor Jean Wu and other faculty.
http://uccps.tufts.edu/04_Community/BridgesChinatown.html
Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities: General Resources
Asian American Cybernauts Page
Website reated by Wataru Ebihara in 1995 contains links to community groups and
cultural expression; last updated in November 2000.
http://janet.org/~ebihara/wataru_aacyber.html
Asian American History Timeline
History timeline created for the PBS documentary Ancestors in the Americas.
http://www.cetel.org/timeline.html
Asian American Resources
Loren Javier’s website provides links to history, community groups, and media.
http://www.lorenjavier.com/asian/index.html
Asian American Movement Ezine
A website for radical and progressive Asian American perspectives with a focus on
community organizing.
http://www.aamovement.net
Asian American Village
Online magazine explores issues relating to Asian American employment, education,
politics, and culture.
http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/asian/village_asian_american.asp
Asian Immigrant Newspapers
New California Media Online provides perspectives from Asian immigrant newspapers;
includes some translated articles from Chinese language newspapers.
http://www.ncmonline.com/asian/
Asian Indian resources
Web resources on history and demographics of Indian Americans.
http://www.thingsindian.com/history.htm
Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asian America
Essays and links to history and contemporary issues; created by C. N. Le.
http://www.asian-nation.org/
Asian Week
Online version of Asian American newspaper; published in San Francisco.
http://news.asianweek.com/news/
East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
Extensive list of weblinks relating to history, community organizations and issues
affecting Asian Americans, including the Wen Ho Lee controversy.
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/asianam.html
Daniel Tsang's Asian American Studies Resources
Extensive list of created by UC Irvine librarian Daniel Tsang; updated regularly.
http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~dtsang/aas2.htm
The Diverse Face of Asians and Pacific Islanders: A Demographic Profile of Los Angeles
County
Created by Kimiko Kelly for the Asian Pacific American Legal Center.
http://apalc.org
Exoticize My Fist
Mimi Nguyen’s Asian American feminist resources website; last updated in 1999.
http://members.aol.com/CritChicks/index.html
Hawaiian nation
History and information on the movement for Hawaiian self-determination.
http://hawaii-nation.org/
Model Minority: A Guide to Asian American Empowerment
Essays and weblinks on community issues.
http://modelminority.com/
National Asian American Telecommunications Association
Video catalog and resources for community-based filmmakers.
http://www.naatanet.org/
Pacific Islands Internet Resources
Valuable collection of web links to nations of the Pacific.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ogden/piir/index.html
Queer Asian Pacific Resources
Resources relating to AIDS and "coming out"; last updated in 1998.
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/5010/resources.html
SAMAR, South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection
Online version of magazine focusing on social processes and social analyses "drawing
energy from activist involvement" in North America and South Asia.
http://www.samarmagazine.org/
Southeast Asian Archive
Includes a virtual exhibit on the Southeast Asian refugee experience in the U.S.
http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/sasian.html
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Resources relating to Asian American Studies and communities.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc
U.S. Census Bureau Reports on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Downloadable files (PDF) based on the 2000 U.S. Census.
http://www.census.gov
Vietspace
Virtual community for Vietnamese Americans.
http://www.kicon.com/
Yellowworld.org
Promotes the "cultivation of a social and political Asian consciousness."
http://www.yellowworld.org
Additional Resources for Student Activism in Communities
Student Activist Resource Handbook
http://www.csun.edu/eop/htdocs/studentactivismbook.pdf
Student Leadership Training Manual
http://www.csun.edu/eop/htdocs/leadership_booklet.pdf
Common Dreams News Center: Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
http://www.commondreams.org
New California Media Online
http://news.ncmonline.com/news/
Hate Free Zone, Campaign of Washington
http://www.hatefreezone.org/
Civil Rights and Human Rights on the Net
http://www.ibt.ku.dk/www/law/krim/index/rights.htm
ColorLines magazine
http://www.arc.org/
Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Culture Links
http://www.oxy.edu/%7Emaeda/multicult.htm
Yes! The Magazine of Positive Alternatives
http://www.futurenet.org/
Starhawk's Activism Page
http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism.html
Z Magazine
http://www.zmag.org/
Middle East Report and Information Project
http://www.merip.org/
Free the Children International
http://www.freethechildren.org/
IGC’s Internet Progressive Gateway
http://www.igc.org/igc/gateway/index.html
Web Links to Progressive Organizations
http://www.neravt.com/left/
International Human Rights Law Group
http://www.hrlawgroup.org/
Poverty & Race Research Action Council
http://www.prrac.org/abtprrac.htm
Global Exchange
http://www.globalexchange.org/
Sweatshop Watch
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/
Corporate Watch
http://www.corpwatch.org/
United for a Fair Economy
http://www.ufenet.org/
Librarian Dan Tsang’s Alternative Research
http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~dtsang/arc.htm
New California Media Online
http://www.ncmonline.com/
Philippine Golden Links
http://www.filipinolinks.com/
Multicultural Collaborative
http://www.mcc-la.org/ |