May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Gallery of Art, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to honor and showcase the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America’s history. Lots of these institutions, and others, offer resources and activities online. The Library of Congress offers lesson plans and classroom activities, as well as an extensive video and multimedia collection. Websites like Asian Nation offer tools, statistics, infographics, and more.

The IU East Campus Library offers a multitude of high-quality scholarly resources. Databases like the Asian Studies eBook Collection offer a pan-Asian perspective, including China, Japan, Korea, Tibet, and Central, South, and Southeast Asia. Oral History Online offers cultural studies through the lens of personal histories. And databases like Asian American Drama, South and Southeast Asian Literature, and Asian Business and Reference focus on specific areas where Asian culture has affected and enriched the world.

And our book collection offers information on every cultural facet and nationality, as well. We have titles like Asian America: When Half Is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections and Divergences by Linda Trinh Vo, Asian American Experience: Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture by LeiLani Nishime, Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen by Eleanor Ty, Asian America: Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature by Christopher Lee, Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America by Daryl Maeda, and Asian American X: An Intersection of Twenty-First Century Asian American Voices by Arar Han.

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