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Resources for the Asian American Community on Anti-Blackness
June 11, 2020A compilation of resources, reading lists, and more on anti-racism and anti-Blackness for the Asian American community
We stand together with our Black siblings to fight for transformative change to a system that incarcerates, dehumanizes, and oppresses Black Americans. This compilation of resources is a starting point for education, discussion, and how to be effective allies in dismantling white supremacy and anti-blackness.
Black-led organizations to follow
- Black Futures Lab1
- Black Visions Collective2
- Center for Policing Equity3
- Color of Change4
- Movement for Black Lives5
- National Black Justice Coalition6
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund7
- NAACP DC Chapter8
- National Action Network 9
- National Urban League10
- Reclaim the Block11
Anti-Racist Resources
- Hollaback! Bystander Intervention Training to Stop Police Sponsored VIolence and Anti-Black Racist Harassment12
- Color of Change’s 13Messaging Guidance on How and Why to Talk About Democracy and Policy Amidst Uprisings for Justice13
Translated Resources
- Black Lives Matter, Translated14 (National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum)
A crowd-sourced 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.
Letters for Black Lives is 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, with the goal to listen, support, and amplify the message of Black Lives Matter within our communities.
Articles
- How Asian Americans Are Reckoning With Anti-Blackness In Their Families16
- 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets17
- 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now (Michelle Kim)18
- How to respond to “riots never solve anything!”19
- South Asians and Black Lives (Deepa Iyer)20
Reading Lists
- Public Safety: An Advocacy Toolkit for Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing21
- Jail Support Programs 22(NAACP)
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning23
- A young adult version of Kendi’s 23Stamped From the Beginning23
- Antiracist Baby24
- Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit25
- Anti-racist reading list 26
Movies/Documentaries
- Array 10127: Learning Companion to “When They See Us” (Ava DuVernay, Netflix)
- “When They See Us” is a Netflix 4-part miniseries about the false accusation and prosecution of the Central Park Five.
- Learning Companion to Netflix’s “13th28” (Ava DuVernay, Netflix)
- “13th” is a Netflix documentary that explores the history of race and the criminal justice system in the US.
- The Real Green Book: A Guide to Freedom Documentary29
More Ways to Plug In and Take Action
Sign/share the petitions:
- Sign Color of Change’s petition to end the war on Black people30
- Sign the Color of Change petition to get #JusticeforFloyd 31
- Sign the Color of Change petition to get #JusticeforBre32
Bailout Funds
Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers34
Bailout Funds that Include folks in Immigration Detention + incarcerated and at risk during COVID-19
- Florida35
- NYC:
- Hawaii Community Bail Fund38
- West Michigan The Kent County I-BOND Immigrant Bond for Our Neighbors’ Defense Fund39
- Alabama, Etowah Freedom Fund40
- National Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee41
- Connecticut Bail Fund42
More crowd sourced resources are available here43 and here44.
Links
- https://blackfutureslab.org/
- https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/
- https://policingequity.org/
- https://colorofchange.org/
- https://m4bl.org/
- http://nbjc.org/node?page=16%22%3B=
- https://www.naacpldf.org/
- http://naacpdc.org/
- https://nationalactionnetwork.net/
- https://nul.org/
- https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/
- https://www.ihollaback.org/stoppoliceviolencetraining/
- https://advancingjustice-aajc.org/sites/default/files/2020-06/Memo_%20Talking%20about%20census%20%26%20voting%20amidst%20uprisings.pdf
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_7sAwRnQeEBpJY26h1tlwoIcib54jqNYfNDCps5_dSY/edit?mc_cid=eb502c2a0f&mc_eid=867a1d5bf2
- https://lettersforblacklives.com/
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-blackness-asian-americans_n_5ed87ca8c5b6ea15610b5774?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cDovL20uZmFjZWJvb2suY29t&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAD_dUpV8yu_7U9tU2FkAdSZxqoOBaW2Vvuv1iWK4daesRVxqktTu1iUlLQwCE1pupY2_MV9syOLFIrFBSeDP8p6R2S2uuVRHvTojNrG4TpWpaei48FpkvUu93S7nixVUaxs27BFy9qxKZWQpycFhG3yyBKkTPNxjEjR903LlmiaW
- https://issuu.com/nlc.sf.2014/docs/beyondthestreets_final?fbclid=IwAR13wqc5WLKfXatpQr7zmP3FCftPrnCpXXk34EfedQ0mBNiU3g_CuluZ8tA
- https://medium.com/awaken-blog/20-allyship-actions-for-asians-to-show-up-for-the-black-community-right-now-464e5689cf3e
- https://soletstalkabout.com/2020/05/28/how-to-respond-to-riots-never-solve-anything/?fbclid=IwAR0xH9eFiASwUJXErHirdzJqwbxi-MGzzsPgGkOAi2z1qHxOWjCS8aksf3s
- https://medium.com/@dviyer/south-asians-and-black-lives-b30adaba6a42
- https://civilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/Toolkit.pdf
- https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/Bail-Links-Doc-final-2.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2VGo_ebZCvCFWsdBhYxqEj4UrcLmYk3Dk3C5t9YRGsQNiXS-Rxh_yz4VA
- https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stamped-jason-reynolds/1133020388?ean=9780316453691
- http://www.amazon.com/dp/0593110412/?tag=slatmaga-20
- https://www.asianamtoolkit.org/the-toolkit
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html
- https://www.array101.org/
- https://tuesdayjustice.org/2016/10/11/companion-to-the-film-13th/
- https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/the-green-book-guide-to-freedom/0/3467847
- https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/state-emergency-black-people-are-dying?source=coc_main_website
- https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/justiceforfloyd_george_floyd_minneapolis/
- https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/justiceforbre-breonna-taylor-officers-fired?source=coc_main_website
- https://civilrights.org/resource/new-era-of-public-safety-a-guide-to-fair-safe-and-effective-community-policing/
- https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd?link_id=0&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_820057___subject_1108527&can_id=61d3c91038ab019da237284b3ceef9a9&source=email-defendblacklife&email_referrer=email_820057___subject_1108527&email_subject=defendblacklife
- https://hrcalachua.com/bail-fund-program/
- https://www.covidbailout.org/
- https://emergencyreleasefund.com/
- https://hawaiicommunitybailfund.org/
- https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kentcountyibond
- https://www.paypal.me/EtowahFreedomFund
- https://incarceratedworkers.org/donate/
- https://ctbailfund.z2systems.com/np/clients/ctbailfund/donation.jsp?campaign=3&
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A3f-20SipegLlS2D-D8JRpJd2IBGmN7eKdfRB6cJHwY/htmlview
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZIvDZpHqvNZkf8dGFXVjfk-Wq0Y9FTG410NJbH_8K8M/edit