Anti-Asian Racism: Books and eBooks

Historian Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the present time.

Written for both Asian Americans and non-Asians, the book argues that America can no longer afford to ignore these emergent, vital, and singular American people.

A graphic memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah graphic memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah during World War II. The author illuminates this experience with poignant illustrations and witty, candid text., illuminates this experience with poignant illustrations and witty, candid text.

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America.

Demonstrates how United States civil rights laws have been framed by a black-white model of race that typically ignores the experiences of other groups, including Asian Americans.

Explores how the complex histories of Atlantic slavery and abolition influenced Chinese immigration, especially at the level of representation.

The story of Chinese workers' support of the Allies in World War I.

From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the US has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian exclusion was not the product of an ongoing national consensus, it was a subject of fierce debate. This book examines the opposition to discrimination that involved some of the most powerful public figures in America.

The first comprehensive repository of anti-Asian images and writing, pop culture artifacts and political polemic.