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What Stories About Racial Trauma Leave Out

By Joe Fassler — 2020

In Minor Feelings, her first book of nonfiction prose, Cathy Park Hong reflects on learning to write about race. Throughout, she describes herself as working against an unfortunate archetype: the narrative that presents racial trauma as a kind of catalyst for personal growth.

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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How to Figure Out Who You Are as an Asian American | Mayuko Inoue | TEDxUCSD

In this talk, Mayuko shares her experience growing up as Japanese American and the lessons learned throughout.

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2021
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I am AZN AMERICAN | Tom Ngo | TEDxUCIrvine

Tom Ngo, an Asian American Entrepreneur / Activist shares his story about growing up as an Asian American in the San Gabriel Valley. Discussing about labels, stereotypes & the importance of self discovery.

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2017
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The Growing Asian American Electorate Is Finding Its Power

Asian Americans are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, their populations growing by over 80 percent in the last 20 years.

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2021
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Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.

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Christina Thompson
2020
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I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype | Canwen Xu | TEDxBoise

Bad driver. Math wizard. Model minority. In this hilarious and insightful talk, eighteen-year-old Canwen Xu shares her Asian-American story of breaking stereotypes, reaffirming stereotypes, and driving competently on her way to buy rice.

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2016
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Our Voices, Our Histories: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women

Our Voices, Our Histories brings together thirty-five Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond.

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Shirley Hune (editor), Gail M. Nomura (editor)
2020
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Catalyst for Change: Asian American Narratives | Ellen Bepp

Ellen Bepp has been exhibiting her work since the 1980s, drawing from her Japanese heritage to create a wide range of art from wearable art, textile paintings, taiko drumming performance, theatrical costuming, mixed media collage and handcut paper.

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2021
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5 Asian Americans on Disrupting the Creative Industries

Jeannie Jay Park, Masami Hosono, Danny Bowien, Gia Seo and Lumia Nocito talk identity, community and misperceptions.

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2021
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Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare

This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African-American leaders of this century. While Martin Luther King, Jr., saw America as essentially a dream . . . as yet unfulfilled, Malcolm X viewed America as a realized nightmare.

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James H. Cone
2012
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God of the Oppressed

A landmark in the development of Black Theology and the first effort to present a systematic theology drawing fully on the resources of African-American religion and culture.

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James H. Cone
1997
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Well-Being