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Schlesinger Library _ Asian Americans and Asians Archival Colletion

Schlessinger Library on the History of Women in America

https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library

Start your archival research on Asian American and Asian collections with this guide. The countries mentioned in this research guide include: Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Syria, Thailand, and Vietnam.  Use the menu on the left to view additional material related to this topic. 

 

Schlesinger Library _Radcliffe Asian American Women's Group "Images of Asian American Women, 1850-1980s" slideshow, 1978

Collection Identifier: SC 124
Overview: Audiotape and slideshow, "Images of Asian American Women, 1850s-1890s," presented by the Radcliffe Asian American Women's Group at the Radcliffe College Centennial Celebration in 1978.

Harvard Houghton Library_ Asian American Theater Company posters and press kit

Houghton Library

Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1725
Overview: Professional posters and press kit of the Asian American Theater Company.

Harvard Film Archive_ Asian American Film Ephemera Collection

Harvard Film Archive, Harvard Library, Harvard University

Collection Identifier: hfa00002
Overview: The Asian American Film Ephemera Collection at the Harvard Film Archive is a curated collection of ephemera, including books, pressbooks, mini-posters, and 28 one-sheet movie posters, portraying the presence and experience of Asians and Asian Americans in American film from the period of approximately 1917-2002.

Harvard Library_ Woodberry Poetry Room

The Woodberry Poetry Room is one of the largest A/V archives for poetry and literary recordings in the United States and a lively literary center at Harvard University---free and open to the public. Founded in 1931, the archive includes recordings of such authors as John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Creeley, E. E. Cummings, Robert Duncan, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Galway Kinnell, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Glück, Seamus Heaney, Jack Kerouac, Audre Lorde, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Vladimir Nabokov, Charles Olson, Sylvia Plath, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Wallace Stevens, Cecilia Vicuña, Ocean Vuong, and Raúl Zurita. The WPR YouTube channel features a wide array of public programs (readings, seminars, oral histories, and lectures) hosted by the Poetry Room since 2011.

The Listening Booth features selections from the Woodberry Poetry Room

WPR YouTube channel

 

Harvard Hollis Images _ Asian America

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North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories

North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories (IMLD) (1800-1950) includes 342 authors and approximately 37,500 pages of information, illustrating what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada.  Search this collection for letters, diaries, and oral histories. 

New York University Library _ Asian American Studies Guide

Guide curated by Andrew H. Lee, PhD

https://guides.nyu.edu/apa-studies/home

MOCA: Musuem of Chinese in America

 

      https://www.mocanyc.org

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) has amassed a nationally-significant collection of materials documenting Chinese life in America. Beginning as what the Smithsonian Magazine described as "a cultural rescue mission to save a little-known immigrant heritage," MOCA’s collection has grown to document the changing profile of Chinese America—from its humble beginnings in the 19th century to its dynamic presence today. MOCA’s Collections and Research Center currently houses more than 85,000 artifacts, photos, memorabilia, documents, oral histories, and art work. This expansive array of archival material enriches the history of Chinese in America for our visitors in ways both rigorously academic and profoundly personal.

Asian American Writers' Workshop

AAWW Radio is the podcast of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, a national nonprofit dedicated to the idea that Asian American stories deserve to be told. Listen to AAWW Radio and you’ll hear selected audio from our current and past events. We’ve hosted established writers like Claudia Rankine, Maxine Hong Kingston, Roxane Gay, Amitav Ghosh, and Hanya Yanagihara, as well as more emerging writers like Ocean Vuong, Solmaz Sharif, and Jenny Zhang. Our events are intimate and intellectual, quirky yet curated, dedicated to social justice but with a sense of humor and weirdness. We curate our events to juxtapose novelists and activists, poets and intellectuals, and bring together people who usually wouldn’t be in the same room. We’ve got it all: from avant-garde poetry to post-colonial politics, feminist comics to lyric verse, literary fiction to dispatches from the racial justice left. A sanctuary for the immigrant imagination, we’re inventing the future of Asian American literary culture. Learn more by visiting aaww.org.

https://aaww.org/

Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit

https://www.asianamtoolkit.org/

The Toolkit project includes the following organizations: 
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Chinese Progressive Association SF  
Korean Resource Center
Filipino Advocates for Justice
CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
PrYSM
DRUM  
Khmer Girls in Action
1Love Movement
AYPAL: Building API Power  
VAYLA New Orleans
Freedom Inc 
Korean American Resource and Culture Center
Mekong NYC
VietLead