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APIDA (Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans) Racial Justice: Cross-Racial Solidarity

Articles and Websites

The Southeast Asian Anti-Racism Toolkit - New York Southeast Asia Network
Asian Americans for Black Lives: Resources and Calls to Action - Asian American Advocacy Fund
The Cross Cultural Solidarity History Project: History; in the Service of Solidarity
Solidarity Stories
The history of tensions — and solidarity — between Black and Asian American communities, explained - Vox
Reimagine Everything: From a Speech by Grace Lee Boggs
Ah Quon McElrath and the Power of Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity
2022 article from Labor web magazine on Chinese Hawaiian labor organizer Ah Quon McElrath

Streaming Media

Mike Tagawa: Oral History Interview from Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project (19 Segments)
One of only three Japanese Americans to join the Black Panther Party, Mike Tagawa was born in an internment camp, grew up in Seattle, and served in the military before joining the party in 1968. He later helped organize the Oriental Student Union at Seattle Central Community College.

Solidarity Organizations

Library Books on Cross-Racial Solidarity

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics.: (Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics) by Lynn Fujiwara, Shireen Roshanravan, Piya Chatterjee
ISBN: 0295744359
Publication Date: 2018
Main Collection--3rd Floor
Also available online through EBSCO eBook Collection
Samurai among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life by Diane C. Fujino
Call Number: 322.420973092 A638f 2012
ISBN: 9780816677863
Main Collection--3rd Floor
Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities by Rychetta Watkins
ISBN: 9781617031618
Publication Date: 2012
Available online through EBSCO eBook Collection--Click book title for access
Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama by Diane C. Fujino
Call Number: 323.092 K76f 2005
ISBN: 0816645922
Main Collection--3rd Floor
Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas by Brian D. Behnken
ISBN: 0807877875
Publication Date: 2011
Available online through EBSCO eBook Collection--Click book title for access
Jim and Jap Crow: A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial America by Matthew M. Briones
ISBN: 1400842212
Publication Date: 2012
Available online through EBSCO eBook Collection--Click book title for access

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