Asian Pacific American Heritage Month @ AAV
Features,
links, news, activities for kids, historical interest, books, and
more
2004 Theme: Learn, See, Meet, Do
Learn something new about Asian American history
See Asian American events, art and other programming
in action
Meet diverse APAs from all walks of life
Do something to recognize Asian-Pacific American
Heritage your own way
- Why are the Hmong "America's Forgotten Refugees"?
- Where is Kosrae, how do you pronounce it, and why
is so important to global health experts?
- Why do "Bikinians Sing of Promises, but Face
Exodus Without End"?
- How Mainers and a Buddhist monk meet up every
year to help the Siddhartha School in India's impoverished Ladakh
region?
- Where do I get "Great Asian Americans" posters to
hang in my school for APA Month?
- Where on the mainland can I go to watch or study
authentic Polynesian or Hawaiian dance?
- For what traditional Chinese cultural activity do
a toxicological chemist and a group of gifted adolescents in Pine
Bluff, Arkansas share a passion?
- Where in Southeast Asia are the Akha from, and
how are their traditions changing?
Every
day in May, these and other sidebar items on the theme will be posted in
our Daily News section, so stop back to learn, see, meet and do!
APA MONTH FAVORITE FEATURES
Cool Find for
APA Month: Great Asian Americans Poster Series
By S.D. Ikeda, Editor
For all those desperate folks who are responsible for coming up with
last-minute APA Heritage Month programming at school or work, this is
for you!
Holding Onto Heritage
By Gil Asakawa, NikkeiView
What's the aspect of your heritage you most want to hold onto?
APA Heritage Month: Who's It For?
By Yayoi Lena Winfrey, AAV Contributing Editor
What does it mean and why do so many not know about it?
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month for Kids
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, AAV Contributing Editor
Did you know you see Asian-American heritage in action every day?
Secret Asian Man:
Celebrate Asian American Month
By Tak Toyoshima, Village Artist-in-Residence
Cartoon: A wry look at the marketing of Asian-American heritage
Ten (Plus) Good Activities for APA Heritage Month
Suggestions from Political Circus' Rodney Salinas to make this month
more meaningful than symbolic
Books on Heritage
History of Pilipino Americans in L.A.
By Prof. Susie Ling, Pasadena City College Asian American Studies
A brief history of L.A.'s newly named "Historic Filipinotown" district
The Trials and Tribulations of Learning Other APA Cultures
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, AAV Contributing Editor
I criticize non-APAs' misunderstanding of our cultures. But am I just as
guilty?
Centennial of Asian American Pioneer Dalip Singh Saund
By Phil Tajitsu Nash
Recalling an "unsung pioneer," the first Asian American U.S. Congressman
Does your workplace or school do enough to commemorate Asian
American Heritage Month?
Yes - 37.5%
No - 43.75%
Don't care - 18.75%
Does your workplace or school commemorate Asian American Heritage
Month in any way?
Yes - 35.29%
No - 58.82%
Not sure - 5.89%
[More
Village Poll Results] |
Born in the U.S.A.
By Frank H. Wu, AAV Contributor
The landmark legal case of Wong Kim Ark, and how APAs won the right to be
Americans
Roots and Branches: Who's Japanese American?
By Gil Asakawa, NikkeiView
Increasingly unclear is my relationship to my two "sides" and to other JAs
AAV Profile: Lydia Lum
By Yayoi Lena Winfrey, AAV Contributing Editor
This Texas journalist is on a mission to preserve the heritage and stories
of Angel Island immigration station...before it's too late
Asian-American Women's History
Various Contributors
Our special section from Women's History Month focusing on women artists,
politicians, educators, businesspeople, activists, and other pioneers
Why Bother Celebrating APA Heritage Month?
By Sam Cacas, AAV Contributing Editor
Sam's answer to the cynics...
Adoption, Hapas, and Asian-American Heritage
By Stewart David Ikeda, Editor
On the future of the 'traditional non-traditional' Japanese-Am. family
(More) Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Sites to See
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, AAV Contributing Editor
Can't get enough?
Roots and Branches: Who's Japanese American?
By Gil Asakawa, NikkeiView
TEMPORARILY REMOVED
Becoming American: The Chinese Experience: Daily Program Guide
Historical notes from the national PBS Bill Moyers series, plus
companion interviews
Marker Honors Little-Known Contributions of Asian Civil War Soldiers
Of the Ohioans who fought in the Civil War, at least 17 were Asian, most of
them Chinese says Sonya Gong of the Organization of Chinese Americans
Well Whadya Know (About APA Politics)?
By Daphne Kwok, APAICS
Think you know your stuff? Prove it by taking this "Milestones Quiz" from
the Asian-Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies
Searching for the China of My Memory
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, AAV Contributing Editor
Part 4 of the "Becoming Asian American" series
ReclamAsian: APA Heritage Month as Seen Through the Eyes of a Hapa
By Yayoi Lena Winfrey, AAV Contributing Editor
Everything You Need to Know About Asian American History, by Lan Cao,
Himilce Novas
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, by
Ronald Takaki
Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People by Helen
Zia
Eastern
Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture From Astro Boy
to Zen Buddhism by Jeff Yang, et al.
Lives of Notable Asian Americans: Business, Politics, and Science, by
Ronald Takaki, Angelo Ragaza
Lives of Notable Asian Americans - Arts, Entertainment, Sports by
Geraldine Gan, Ronald Takaki
The Asian Pacific American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and Arts,
edited by George Leonard
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