Visibility Forward aims to provide all educators with the resources they need to teach Asian American history. Listed below are cornerstone literature in AAPI history, race and migration, and cultural conflict and understanding.
Orientalism - Edward Said
Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South - Jigna Desai and Khyati Y. Joshi
Keywords for Asian American Studies - Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Vo
A Different Shade of Justice - Stephanie Hinnershitz
The Making of Asian America: A History - Erika Lee
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America - Vivek Bald
Empire of Care - Catherine Ceniza Choy
American Sutra - Duncan Williams
Racial Formation - Michael Omi and Howard Winant
Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South - Leslie Bow
Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture - Gary Y. Okihiro
Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy - Bill Hing
The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies - Mark Chiang
The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans - Claire Jean Kim
The Asian American Movement - William Wei
The New Asian Immigration and Global Restructuring - Paul Ong, Edna Bonacich, Lucie Cheng
The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American - Min Hyoung Son
Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans: Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities - Edith Wen-Chu Chen and Glenn Omatsu