Teaching Resources and Other Tools
Teaching Tools:
#AtlantaSyllabus: An Asian American Studies Perspective on Anti-Asian Violence in 2021, was designed for those who want to better understand this incident and this moment in all of their complexity. While Atlanta is a politically contentious space with rich legacies of Black activism, the presence of Asian Americans in the U.S. South has often been obscured in dominant narratives. Without reducing the city to this tragedy, this syllabus represents a starting point for understanding the incident in relation to Asian American history, culture, and political solidarity with Black communities. Its contents includes canonical and more recent scholarship from the academic discipline of Asian American Studies, as well as contemporary journalism, podcasts, videos, and documentaries from Asian American artists and writers. created by Dr. Lori Lopez and Dr. Erica Kanesaka Kalnay, Asian American Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
May 1, 2021: Sikhism: An Educator's Guide: Developed by The Sikh Coalition, this guide was designed as a resource for teachers to with necessary information regarding the Sikh community, traditions, and faith.
#HONORASIANWOMENSYLLABUS: Syllabus was created by Mihee Kim-Kort, a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies at Indiana University, that features Asian American women scholars who write about issues of race, gender, sexuality, intersectionality, and social justice.
(RECOMMENDED) AAJA Pronunciation Guide for Asian Victims of Atlanta Shootings: Asian American Journalists Association released a pronunciation guide for victims in the Atlanta shootings with Chinese- and Korean-language names which may be useful for educators. This includes a 30-second video of the pronunciations.
(RECOMMENDED) AAJA Guidance on on Atlanta Shootings: The Asian American Journalists Association provides five guidelines on how newsrooms to cover this latest tragedy. This guide can be useful for educators.
(RECOMMENDED) More than 30 lesson plans based on the Asian American series which includes 5-10 minute segments on Chinese Exclusion Act, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, Southeast Asian refugees after the Vietnam War, Filipino American Farmworkers, the fight for civil rights and much more. You can use these lesson plans drawn from the series to strengthen your knowledge-base and/or apply them in your own curriculum: Asian American - Lesson Plans.
(RECOMMENDED) Anti-Asian Racism & COVID-19: Website and shareable pdf based on a powerpoint slidedeck created by Dr. Jennifer Ho (Professor, Ethnic Studies, CU Boulder) to educate people about the rise of anti-Asian racism amidst COVID-19--there are also slides devoted to a history of race/racism and links to the national/global anti-Black racism movements happening, as well as work that people can do to be anti-racism allies and educators.
A day in the life of a pandemic: COVID-19 assignment: Created by Natalia Molina, Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Quarantine Quarterly: An Asian American History ZINE project: Created by Jason Oliver Chang, Associate Professor of History & Asian and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut.
Create a Zine, podcast, or video that explores legal issues surrounding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. These will be centered around either impacts related to discrimination, the 2020 Census, or voting: Created by Neenah Estrella-Luna, Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology, Salem State University.
How to Respond to Racism from Coronavirus: Fung Brothers [video]
NPR Code Switch: When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus. [podcast]
What you can do to fight violence and racism against Asian Americans