National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, A Brief History of Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, & State-Sanctioned Violence OR Asian Pacific Public Health Network, Anti-Racist Coalition, and National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, A Brief History of the API Community and State-Sanctioned Violence
Reece Jones, White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall
Hana Maruyama, Campu: Podcast
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Migration Scholar Collaborative
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, Immigrant Stories
Georgetown Law Library, Immigrant and Refugee Civil Rights
Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, #ImmigrationSyllabus
Stanford Law School & Yale Law School, Immigration Policy Tracking Project
Freedom for Immigrants, The Immigration Detention Syllabus
As you engage with the materials, we encourage you to reflect on the materials in whatever way you process—whether through provocations, questions, or discussions.
To facilitate discussion, we invite you to join us for a panel discussion with scholars and community members on this topic to reflect together and find different ways to challenge our understanding. More information on the panel is available under Scholar Series. We also welcome your reflections and questions through our reflection form.
If you are looking for asynchronous reflection, we offer the following questions to guide your reflection:
Who or what has informed and shaped your understanding of the history of immigration?
In what ways did the readings/videos/podcasts challenge your current understanding of history?
What parts of history remain unknown to you? Why?
How do you imagine using history to inform our future? What does this entail?
Option 1: Develop a monthly plan outlining how you will commit to learning more about the history of the land you occupy, building relationships with Indigenous peoples, and paying land taxes for your occupation.
Option 2: After learning/unlearning the history of immigration and immigrants, create your personal invisible knapsack focused on the histories you benefit from and/or have exploited (modeled after Peggy McIntosh’s).
Option 3: Donate time, skills, and/or money to grassroots organizations and initiatives such as La ColectiVA; invest in mutual aid networks such as DC Mutual Aid Network or Indigenous Mutual Aid Groups; and/or support artists such as Xena Ni, kat eng, and Stephanie H. Shih. A comprehensive database on local mutual aid networks across the nation is available here.
Option 4: Create a weekly or monthly donation plan based on your income and generational wealth to redistribute your wealth. Use this master list to identify organizations, networks, and funds you plan to commit to.