AAPI Heritage Resources
San Francisco AAPI Heritage Resources:
Center for Asian American Media "The Center for Asian American Media is a nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible."
Chinese Historical Society of America A small, San Francisco-based museum focused on sharing the Chinese American Experience.
National Japanese American Historical Society Based in San Francisco's Japantown, the historical society collects and shares resources about the Japanese American experience.
SFPL Catalog: Search the catalog, then filter your search results by clicking the eBook filter so that you have access to books you can read immediately on your iPad or phone.
To access: Use your SFPL login information. To find that information, search your school email for an email dated 8/28/20 from publicaffairs@sfpl.org. This email contains your SFPL card number and PIN. If you still can't find your log in information, email us at si_librarians@siprep.org or LiveChat us for help.
SFPL also has many events and resources related to AAPI Heritage Month. Find out more here.
SOMA Pilipinas A cultural organization dedicated to the Filipino experience in San Francisco.
Outside Resources:
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage: This US government site hightlights places and stories central to AAPI heritage. It includes a travel guide of national parks and other sites important in Asian American and Pacific Islander American history.
AsiaPacificHeritage.gov The Library of Congress, The National Archives, and other institutions joined together to create this resource to encourage self-directed and classroom learning about the AAPI experience.
Ethnic Newswatch: “Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.”
To access: Use your SFPL login information. To find that information, search your school email for an email dated 8/28/20 from publicaffairs@sfpl.org. This email contains your SFPL card number and PIN. If you still can't find your log in information, email us at si_librarians@siprep.org or LiveChat us for help.
Hyphen Magazine Covers Asian Americans in Texas, Kansas and Minnesota, not just the critical mass living in California and New York. It features emerging artists, thinkers and doers, not only the few established Asian Americans who have mainstream approval. It is a magazine that looked beyond identity, but explores cultural issues while tackling what is Asian American by accident, by tangent or by happenstance. --Paraphrased from the magazine's About page.
South Pacific Islander Organization: "We are democratizing Pacific Islander access to higher education and professsional opportunities through digital resources."
UCLA Asian American Studies Center: The largest university-housed Asian American studies program in the United States. This page has links to databases, archives, projects, and other resources.
Vietnamese American Oral History Project: This UC Irvine project highlights the Vietnamese American experience through the collection of personal stories.