Falvey Memorial Library Shares Resources for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month—Celebrating the “histories of Americans hailing from across the Asian continent and from the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.” This month was selected to commemorate AAPI heritage as the first Japanese immigrants migrated to the United States on May 7, 1842. The transcontinental railroad was also completed on May 10, 1869—the majority of the construction completed by thousands of Chinese immigrants.
AAPI Heritage Month was originally a commemorative week, with President Jimmy Carter signing House Joint Resolution 1007 (becoming Public Law 95-419) on October 5, 1978, proclaiming the “7 day period beginning on May 4, 1979 as ‘Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week.'” Congress passed Public Law 101-283 on May 9, 1990, extending the observance to a month, and on Oct. 23, 1992, passed Public Law 102-450 annually designating May as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
As we celebrate the heritage of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, we must combat continued racism against the AAPI community. In 2021, Stop AAPI Hate “reported over 2,800 hate incidents across the United States since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Falvey Library condemns anti-Asian racial discrimination and violence. We stand with the AAPI members of our Villanova community and all AAPI members in solidarity.
The Federal Asian Pacific American Council selected “Advancing Leaders Through Opportunity” as the theme for May 2023. In this spirit, we are happy to share AAPI resources available at Falvey Library. The works listed below are only a snapshot of scholarship on AAPI heritage. No list of this nature could ever be comprehensive, but we hope that this list, will serve as a starting point.
Curated by Jutta Seibert, subject librarian for Global Interdisciplinary Studies, the Asian Studies research guide and the Chinese Culture research guide are excellent resources. Seibert is available for research consultations.
Asian Studies Research Guide
Academic Journals
- JSTOR
- Articles & More Search
- Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
- Asian American Studies Collection (BrowZine)
- Asian History Collection (BrowZine)
- Asian Literature Collection (BrowZine)
- Asian Philosophy Collection (BrowZine)
Newspapers and Magazines
- Nexis Uni
- Access World News (NewsBank)
- Articles & More Search
- Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
- Eighteenth Century Journals (Adam Matthew Digital)
- Southeast Asian Newspapers (East View)
- Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers (East View)
- Online Newspaper Archives Index (Wikipedia)
- Online Magazine Archives Index (Wikipedia)
- WorldCat
Primary Sources
- History Subject Guide
- Times of India (1838–2010) (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
- Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers (East View)
Encyclopedias, Handbooks, and Companions
- Gale Virtual Reference LibraryOxford
- Research Encyclopedias (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford Bibliographies (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford Handbooks Online (Oxford University Press)
- Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics (Brill)
- The Cambridge History of China
- The Cambridge History of Inner Asia (Cambridge University Press)
- The Cambridge History of Japan (Cambridge University Press)
- The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press)
- The New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge University Press)
- Oxford Islamic Studies Online (Oxford University Press)
Books and Book Chapters
Chinese Culture Research Guide
Encyclopedias, Handbooks, and Companions
- Articles & More
- The Cambridge History of China
- A Companion to Chinese History
- The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions
- The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture
- The Sage Handbook of Contemporary China
- Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism
- Encyclopedia of Chinese Film
- Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas
- CIA World Factbook China
Secondary Sources
Streaming Video
- Academic Video Online – AVON (Alexander Street Press)
- Docuseek2 Complete Collection (Alexander Street Press)
Primary Sources
- New Electronic Resources Explore China Through Western Eyes
- China, America and the Pacific: Trade & Cultural Exchange (Adam Matthew Digital)
- China: Culture and Society (Adam Matthew Digital)
- China: Trade, Politics & Culture, 1793-1980 (Adam Matthew Digital)
- Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 (Adam Matthew Digital)
- Socialism on Film, 1918-1988 (Adam Matthew Digital)
Be sure to explore scholarship from faculty in Villanova University’s Asian Studies Program:
Hae-Kyong Bang, Associate Professor; Director, Asian Studies
- Asian Americans in Magazine Advertising: Portrayals of the “Model Minority” (2005)
- A Comparison of Service Quality Dimensions Conveyed in Advertisements for Service Providers in the USA and Korea: A Content Analysis (2005)
A.J. Yumi Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of English
Andrew B. Liu, Assistant Professor of History
- Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (2020)
- Production, Circulation, and Accumulation: The Historiographies of Capitalism in China and South Asia (2019)
- Incense and Industry: Labour and Capital in the Tea Districts of Huizhou, China (2016)
Nathan Badenoch, PhD, Associate Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies
- Technical Meets Traditional: Language, Culture, and the Challenges Faced by Hmong Medical Interpreters (2022)
- Silence, Cessation and Stasis: The Ethnopoetics of “Absence” in Bit Expressives (2022)
- Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area (2021)
- Translating the State: Ethnic Language Radio in the Lao PDR (2018)
Kayo Shintaku, PhD, Assistant Teaching Professor, Coordinator of Japanese Language & Cultural Studies
Davey K. Tomlinson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
Qi Wang, PhD, Associate Professor, Area Coordinator, Interpersonal Communication
Jie Xu, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
- Mapping Public Relations Scholarship in Asia: A Longitudinal Analysis of Published Research, 1995–2014 (2016)
- Online Strategic Communication: A Cross-cultural Analysis of U.S. and Chinese Corporate Websites (2009)
Naomi Yamakawa, Japanese Instructor, Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies
For more books and other resources by and about people of Asian-Pacific ancestry check out this blog by Erica Hayes, Digital Scholarship Librarian, and Deborah Bishov published on May 10, 2021.
Kallie Stahl ’17 MA is Communication and Marketing Specialist at Falvey Memorial Library. This article was originally published May 18, 2022.
References:
Congress, T. L. of, Administration, N. A. and R., Humanities, N. E. for the, Art, N. G. of, Service, N. P., Institution, U. S., & Museum, U. H. M. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2022 (n.d.). Retrieved May 9, 2022, from https://asianpacificheritage.gov/
FAPAC – FAPAC Announces Theme for the 2023 Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month. (n.d.). Retrieved May 1, 2023, from https://fapac.org/pressreleases/13056819
The Rise In Anti-Asian Attacks During The COVID-19 Pandemic. NPR. Retrieved May 9, 2022, from https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975722882/the-rise-of-anti-asian-attacks-during-the-covid-19-pandemic
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