Asian American

On-line Documents

Understanding Discrimination Against Asian Americans
After creating a historical context by examining the immigration of different Asian populations to America, the authors then analyze the different types of discrimination experienced by Asian Americans, including economic, family, educational, social, criminal justice, and media stereotypes.
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Asian American Justice Center
Works to advance the human and civil rights of Asian Americans through advocacy, public policy, public education, and litigation.
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Asian American Village, from IMDiversity
Amazing and remarkably comprensive collection of articles and commentaries on the current events, issues, and experiences of the Asian American community.
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Asian Law Caucus
An Asian American civil rights organization, the ALC promotes, advances, and represents the legal and civil rights of the Asian and Pacific Islander communities. They are committed to the pursuit of equality and justice for all sectors, focusing on community education and organizing, provision of direct legal services, and strategic impact litigation.
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Asian Nation
Self described as your one stop information resource and overview of the historical, demographic, political, and cultural issues that make up today's diverse Asian American community. You can almost think of Asian-Nation as an online version of "Asian Americans 101." Don't let the low key description fool you: the resources this site offers are incredibly comprehensive and the commentary is exceptionally acute.
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Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute
APAWLI is dedicated to enhancing and enriching leadership skills for Asian American and Pacific Island women leaders. The site includes information about their leadership programs and links to several publications.
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Japanese American Citizens League
Dedicated to preserving the rights and well-being of all Asian Americans and others who fall victim to social injustice in the United States.
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Learn About Hmong
This website offers outstanding resources for any who would like to learn more about Hmong culture and history. Visually stimulating and engaging, this easy to navigate site offers information about Hmong music, cultural traditions, arts, folk tales, history, and more.
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Modelminority.com
While this title is superficially complimentary to Asian Americans, the real purpose and effect of this portrayal is to celebrate the status quo in race relations. The mission of ModelMinority.com is to educate, inform, provoke, and inspire movements by individuals and groups toward Asian American empowerment. The website is truly interactive offering a chat room and many articles, commentaries, poems, stories, and pictures on the Asian American experience.
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National Association of Korean Americans
A non-profit, civil and human rights organization of concerned Korean Americans. NAKA is involved in both education and advocacy, and its site resources include census data, online documents, a brief history of Korean Americans, a list of links, and information about current programs and advocacy efforts.
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National Federation of Filipino American Associations
The National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) supports Filipinos and Filipino Americans by promoting active participation in civic and national affairs and in all other aspects of mainstream America, increasing awareness of Filipino American social, economic, political and cultural contributions, securing social justice, strengthening community institutions that promote the cultural heritage of the Filipinos, and fighting stereotypes.
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National Japanese American Historical Society
Founded in 1980, NJAHS is dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and dissemination of materials relating to the history and culture of Japanese Americans. NJAHS specializes in traveling exhibitions, publications, videos, interactive multimedia, military and camp collections, and educational programs.
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Organization of Chinese Americans
Founded in 1973, the Organization of Chinese Americans, Inc. (OCA) is a national non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization of concerned Chinese Americans. OCA is dedicated to securing the rights of Chinese American and Asian American citizens and permanent residents through legislative and policy initiatives at all levels of the government.
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yellowworld.org
A non-profit organization dedicated to the cultivation of a political Asian consciousness, this website has hundreds of news articles and commentary on a wide variety of topics. There is also a forum to post your comments and response to current issues affecting the Asian community.
Category: Asian American