MULTICULTURAL TOOLS FOR USING AND PROMOTING ANTI-RACIST LANGUAGE
Talking to friends and family about racial justice, police violence, and anti-Blackness is a crucial component of anti-racism work. Here are some resources, with many helpful translations, that might help you begin the conversation. Much of the info here came from these live documents, which contain many more useful resources: Essential Anti-Racism Resources for Asian People in America, Resources: Asians for Black Lives, Anti-Racism Resources for Asian Americans and Anti-Racism Resources for White People.
In this guide:
- Starting the Conversation – helpful language (with many translations) to get started with family and friends
- Digging Deeper – ways to educate yourself more and get involved
- Letters for Black Lives
A set of crowdsourced, multilingual, and culturally-aware resources aimed at creating a space for open and honest conversations about racial justice, police violence, and anti-Blackness in our families and communities. Translated in 30 languages. Includes social media graphics.
- Talking to Your Asian Immigrant Family About Race
Created with older Asian immigrants in mind. From the creators: “Many older Asian immigrants, like those in our parents’ generation, internalize anti-blackness or have trouble understanding race dynamics in America. These beliefs might be a result of language barriers or lack of access to social media — but that’s why it’s crucial for us to educate our elders on how Asian Americans have contributed to and benefited from systemic, institutional racism.
To help with that, we’ve put together a set of phrases to help guide, redirect, and give historical context to your conversation. They’ve also been translated by native speakers into multiple Asian languages. We know this dialogue can be frustrating, so we hope this guide can at least contribute to educating those in our community, one conversation at a time.”
Translations in: English, Chinese (traditional), Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Thai and Arabic
- Black Lives Matter Translated
Compiled by the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, this is a crowdsourced repository of materials in Asian & Pacific Islander diasporic languages we can all use to navigate difficult discussions about Black Lives Matter, anti-blackness, Black history, immigration history, and police/state-sanctioned violence with our families and communities.
- Call on Me, Not the Cops: A Letter to Asian American Family/Friends
- Translations for Chinese Americans to discuss Black Lives Matter with family and friends (infographic)
- How to respond to “riots never solve anything!”
- Answering Commonly Asked Questions about the Black Lives Matter Movement
- https://thebolditalic.com/where-do-i-donate-why-is-the-uprising-violent-should-i-go-protest-5cefeac37ef9
- 6 Ways Asian Americans Can Tackle Anti-Black Racism in Their Families (Kim Tran 2016)
- Vietcetera
- Vietnamese People for Black Lives Matter
- https://vietsforblm.carrd.co
- Black History for Vietnamese People
- The Terrible Burden of Skin Color (Vietnamese)
- On Systemic Racism (Vietnamese)
- For Asian Americans
- READ
- Books (a brief history)
- Books (contemporary Asian American identity)
- Books (in relation to our Black and Brown brothers and sisters)
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century
- Resounding Afro Asia: Interracial Music and the Politics of Collaboration
- Asians Against Anti-Blackness Reading Group: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdshtyFaYbj9AY0Cbm10Ifd9iov__Sk9UPbVT-k89lE/edit?fbclid=IwAR1tZAsfpOkpowK7DT0yA7sQmtdnLT7z_1IUxPk_FFmUefczPCSyx-nfgk0
- Articles & Writings
- READ
- https://vietbao.com/a303598/chung-ta-can-thay-doi-cach-nhin-ve-nguoi-da-den
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ADpaRGlhc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjH9fmmyZTg
- 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets: https://issuu.com/nlc.sf.2014/docs/beyondthestreets_final?fbclid=IwAR13wqc5WLKfXatpQr7zmP3FCftPrnCpXXk34EfedQ0mBNiU3g_CuluZ8tA
- 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now (Michelle Kim): https://medium.com/awaken-blog/20-allyship-actions-for-asians-to-show-up-for-the-black-community-right-now-464e5689cf3e
- ‘Model Minority’ Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks (NPR): https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks
- Beyond Policing (Quyen Ngo & Raphael Mimoun): https://medium.com/q-r/beyond-policing-c50a2da62723
- South Asians and Black Lives (Deepa Iyer): https://medium.com/@dviyer/south-asians-and-black-lives-b30adaba6a42
- Asian Americans and the Legacy of Anti-blackness: https://blogs.brown.edu/ethn-1650b-s01-2018-fall/asian-americans-and-the-legacy-of-antiblackness/
- 30+ Ways Asians Perpetuate Anti-Black Racism Everyday (Michelle Kim): https://medium.com/awaken-blog/30-ways-asians-perpetuate-anti-black-racism-everyday-32886c9b3075
- #asians4blacklives in 2020 (Leena Yin): https://medium.com/@lyyinaround/asians4blacklives-in-2020-bff4209e227e
- DEAR NON-BLACK ASIAN-AMERICANS: WE NEED TO STOP APPROPRIATING AAVE: https://wearyourvoicemag.com/non-black-asian-americans-we-need-to-stop-appropriating-aave/ (Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, 2018)
- Asian American Complicity in Racism (Larry Lin, 2020, he’s a pastor of a church in Baltimore): https://reformedmargins.com/asian-american-complicity-in-racism/
- What Southeast Asian Refugees Owe to Black Lives (Trinh Q. Truong on PIVOT) also available in Vietnamese at the bottom: https://www.pivotnetwork.org/news/what-southeast-asian-refugees-owe-to-black-lives
- Black Lives Matter and the Asian American Dilemma: What We Owe– an Asian psychiatrist’s analysis of the model minority myth and how it perpetuates racism, how to build empathy in midst of chaos: https://rebrand.ly/Asiansforblacklives
- Article: Jezzika Chung (HuffPost), “How Asian Immigrants Learn Anti-Blackness From White Culture, And How To Stop It”
- Blog Post: Densho, “Asian American Anti-Blackness is real – and so is our responsibility to end it”
- Blog Post: Michelle Kim (Medium), “30+ Ways Asians Perpetuate Anti-Black Racism Everyday”
- Blog Post: BK (Medium), “A Letter to Asians”
- Translation in Korean
- Palmira Muniz (The Body Is Not an Apology), “7 Ways Non-Black People of Color Perpetuate Anti-Blackness”
- Article: Lillian Weng (The Daily Pennsylvanian), “Anti-blackness in Asian American Communities”
- Blog Post: Leena Yin 殷月蕾 (Medium), “#Asians4BlackLives in 2020”
- Article: Marina Fang (HuffPost), “How Asian Americans Are Reckoning With Anti-Blackness In Their Families”
- Instagram post: @decolonialbulaklak “Dismantling White Supremacy Begins With Facing Our Own History of Anti-Blackness”
- Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities Reading List: https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/black-and-asian-feminist-solidarities-a-reading-list
- 18 Million Rising: Our Black History Month Reading List for Asian Americans
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, an anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa
- ESSENTIAL VIEWINGS
Ongoing list of talks and documentaries pertaining to race in art and American culture.
- Talks
- Pidouhui as Art History: Crowd, Cruelty, and Curatorial Justice: https://vimeo.com/407609176
- Documentaries
- The Grace Lee Project: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QmKjNC8QzOdF5J2m4tx6IZik7Z8M8AnQ/view
- Sa-I-Gu: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yszr-J76lnKBMFpWgmIX2SIeAq5fC-CU/view
- Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama: https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/mountains-that-take-wing-angela-davis-and-yuri-kochiyama-trailer/
- Talks
- ART
- Yellow Peril Supports Black Power images (Monyee Chau): Update: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBEHSsPJNuP
- Asians (Chinese/Filipinx/Vietnamese/Hmong/Desis/Khmer etc…) for Black Lives poster by Kalaya’an Mendoza
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https://twitter.com/kalamendoza
https://www.instagram.com/kalamendoza/
- Radical Roadmaps, a graphic recording and illustration practice by Laura Chow Reeve: https://www.radicalroadmaps.com/
- #Asians4BlackLives: https://a4bl.tumblr.com/post/112940617889/lny-political-horoscopes
- Black Visions Collective: an arts collective advocating and organizing for transformative justice and liberation by and for Black Minnesotans (IG) https://www.instagram.com/blackvisionscollective/
- More social posts and imagery to share: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19l8PfHVNxIeFWukTGAaeWzkJTlhJIQd7
- What We Owe to Black Communities
Let’s see what (Asian) America wouldn’t have if it weren’t for the labor of Black activists in our history.
- Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1941
- A brief overview on Encylopaedia Brittanica
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 & Voting RIghts Act of 1965
- A brief overview on History.com
- Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
- A brief overview on History.com
- Solidarity against anti-Asian racism
- Black and brown communities speaking out against police brutality/violence against Asian Americans: Yong Xin Huang
- Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1941
- FOR ALL
- Articles & writings
- Books to read to be anti-racist (the image is pretty cool. Please credit the illustrator Jane Mount): https://www.idealbookshelf.com/collections/prints/products/ideal-bookshelf-1162-anti-racism
- An Antiracist Reading List: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html
- ESSENTIAL VIEWINGS- Ongoing list of talks and documentaries pertaining to race in art and American culture.
- Talks
- How Studying Privileged Systems Can Strengthen Compassion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-BY9UEewHw&feature=youtu.be
- Collective Memory in Contemporary Black Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-BY9UEewHw&feature=youtu.be
- White Dominance of Space in Performance: https://vimeo.com/306602883
- James Baldwin interviews on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvbZAprCHO2Wf7Hl90O3-4kigGv3Bt6F3
- Naomi Murakawa & #BlackLivesMatter: Liberals, Guns and the Roots of the U.S. Prison Explosion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyHeroT6uv4
- Documentaries
- The Color of Fear: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hb8e2Qw1WdYliweipg8lfa2xQQsKiEA5/view
- The Angry Eye with Jane Elliott: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xl-Qk_IL8QGiOVTDZ_Ely38wgB9F_K3Y/view
- The Black Power Mixtapes 1967 – 1975
- Good Hair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpgIJUW0VxE
- ESSENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS – An ongoing list of organizations and collectives to support, collaborate, and be informed
- By Us For Us: http://www.bufubyusforus.com
- The Audre Lorde Project: https://alp.org/news/uplifting-black-comrades-struggle
- Yellow Jackets Collective: https://www.instagram.com/yellowjacketscollective/?hl=en
- The Authority Collective: https://authoritycollective.org/who-we-are
- Asia Archives in America: http://www.aaa-a.org
- Asian American Federation: http://www.aafny.org
- AAPI / Ally Orgs – The BIPOC Project | build authentic and lasting solidarity among Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), in order to undo Native invisibility, anti-Blackness, dismantle white supremacy and advance racial justice https://www.thebipocproject.org/
- 18 Million Rising https://18millionrising.org/
- Across Frontlines https://acrossfrontlines.org/
- Asian Pacific Environmental Network https://apen4ej.org/
- Chinese Progressive Association SF https://cpasf.org/
- Korean Resource Center https://www.krcla.org/
- Filipino Advocates for Justice http://filipinos4justice.org/
- CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities https://caaav.org/
- PrYSM (mobilizes Southeast Asian queer youth) https://www.prysm.us/
- Khmer Girls in Action http://kgalb.org/
- 1Love Movement https://1lovemovement.wordpress.com/
- AYPAL: Building API Power org https://www.aypal.org/
- VAYLA New Orleans http://www.vayla-no.org/
- South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) https://saalt.org/about/about-saalt/
- Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) https://www.searac.org/
- Mekong NYC http://mekongnyc.org/
- VietLEAD https://www.vietlead.org/
- Equality Labs (Southasian technology organization) https://www.equalitylabs.org/
- NQAPIA A Federation of LGBTQ Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander Organizations
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice (many local chapters)
- Team OPAWL in Ohio ( https://www.facebook.com/teamOPAWL/)
- Asian Pasifika Arts Collective in Baltimore ( https://baltimoreapac.org/)