Asian Americans

A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution
Uses images, music, text and first hand accounts to explore the United States’ Japanese Internment camps during WWII.

Asian Americans for Equality
A site dedicated to fighting social injustice and prejudice.

Asian Americans Rising: Da Entertainment Resource about Asian Pacific Americans
Includes dozens of links relating to Asian American culture.

Asia Society Special Report: Japanese American Internment
An article about the relationship between post 9-11 treatment and detention of Muslim-Americans and the Japanese-American internment camps of WWII.

Asia Society Special Report: Exploring Race in America: An Interview with Frank Wu
Great interview that details racial biases in the U.S. and the need to take action against them.

Children's and Young Adult Books with Asian American Themes

Chinese American History Timeline

Densho Educational Web site
Densho is a nonprofit organization started in 1996, with the goal of documenting oral histories from Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II.

ERIC Digest: Teaching about the Japanese-American Internment

Media Action Network for Asian Americans
Monitors depictions in the media Asian Americans in the media.

National Asian American Telecommunications Association
Major distributor of videos with Asian American themes.

"Suffering under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

Last Updated September 1, 2007