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Asian America
Historical Analysis
Excremental Colonialism
Written by Warwick Anderson, highlights the degrading of Filipino society/culture by Americans through their excrement.
Transpacific Cold War Formations and the Question of (Un)Redressability 
Written by Lisa Yoneyama, describes a "transborder redress culture" to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence. This was a movement across Asia and the Pacific.
Secrecy as Knowledge
Written by Ma Vang, deals with the secret soldiering in Laos by the US.
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Your Cap Is a Passport
Written by Cathrine Ceniza Choy, details how the U.S. Exchange Visitor Program led to many Filipino women becoming nurses in order to find new lives in the U.S.
Returnees: “R2I,” Citizenship, and the Domestic Sphere
Informed on the perspective of immigrants to the U.S. who ultimately returned to their home countries to seek opportunities.
Which of These Things Is Not Like the Other: Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders Are Not Asian Americans, and All Pacific Islanders Are Not Hawaiian
Written by Lisa Kahaleole Hall, noted how Pacific Islanders were not accepted in the Asian American community and were not seen as Hawaiian either. Instead their culture was still seen as primal and savage.
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Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood
Written by Dean Saranillo, focuses on the opposition and negatives of Hawaii's inclusion as a U.S. state.
Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation
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Asian American Studies Now
Written by Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu and Thomas Chen, analyzed the ways Asian Americans participated in activism from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Interest Convergence or Divergence?: A Critical Race Analysis of Asian Americans, Meritocracy, and Critical Mass in the Affirmative Action Debate
Written by Julie J. Park and Amy Liu, covers the idea of interest convergence and divergence, which is the pattern of acceptance and rejection America subjects Asian/Asian Americans to in order to benefit their own agendas.
Informational Sources
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Care in the Time of Coronavirus: A Zine
Written by the Asian American Feminist Collective, explored intersectional feminist politics and offered tips during the time of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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The Cost of Caring
Written by Rachel Aviv, details the story of Emma, a Filipino woman who had to immigrate to the U.S. to become a nanny because her job in the Philippines was not enough to support her family.
Details the harsh reality of the nail business, focusing on how most victims of the system are Asian women who become underpaid and mistreated.
Hawaiian Sovereignty Leader Haunani-Kay Trask Criticizes Asian ‘Settler’ Privilege and Collaboration with Colonialism
FILMS
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The Fall of the I-Hotel
Documents the demolition of the I-Hotel, which displaced many elderly Asian American immigrants.
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Court Cases
Bhagat Singh Thind v. US
A court case where a Hindu man who was scientifically proven to be "white" enough was still denied citizenship because of his original nationality.
Takao Ozawa v. US
A court case where a Japanese man was denied citizenship even though he had conformed to American/white culture in almost every way. It made clear that your nationality/physical appearance also needed to match qualifications to become a citizen.
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Critical Analysis
Ornamentalism
Written by Anne Anlin Cheng, analyzes feminism in terms of "oriental" and "ornamental." Separates race and gender from the feminine body.
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Our Sea of Islands
Written by Epeli Hau'ofa, describes what Oceanic identity is and how it encapsulates the entire region (including the ocean) instead of viewing it as several little pieces of land.
Mechanical Eye, Electronic Bar, and the Lure of Authenticity
Written by Trinh T. Minh-ha, emphasizes the urge of a camera to long for authenticity.
Slaying the Dragon
A film in 1988 that criticized the view/treatment of Asian American women in Hollywood. They were often sexualized and seen as exotic goods.
Fiction with Motive
The Farm: Novel
Written by Joanne Ramos, a fictional piece emphasizing the sacrifices and struggles Asian women experience in the process of immigration and forging their own lives for themselves.
Appropriate: A Provocation
Written by Paisley Rekdal, considers how the topic of cultural appropriation should be approached in our world today.