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 Lab
- Black Visions Collective
- Center for Policing Equity
- Color of Change
- Movement for Black Lives
- National Black Justice Coalition
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- NAACP DC Chapter
- National Action Network
- National Urban League
- Reclaim the Block
Anti-Racist Resources
- Hollaback! Bystander Intervention Training to Stop Police Sponsored VIolence and Anti-Black Racist Harassment
- Color of Change’s Messaging Guidance on How and Why to Talk About Democracy and Policy Amidst Uprisings for Justice
Translated Resources
- Black Lives Matter, Translated (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 Families
- 26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets
- 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now (Michelle Kim)
- How to respond to “riots never solve anything!”
- South Asians and Black Lives (Deepa Iyer)
Reading Lists
- Public Safety: An Advocacy Toolkit for Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing
- Jail Support Programs (NAACP)
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning
- A young adult version of Kendi’s Stamped From the Beginning
- Antiracist Baby
- Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit
- Anti-racist reading list
Movies/Documentaries
- Array 101: 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 “13th” (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 Documentary
More Ways to Plug In and Take Action
Sign/share the petitions:
- Sign Color of Change’s petition to end the war on Black people
- Sign the Color of Change petition to get #JusticeforFloyd
- Sign the Color of Change petition to get #JusticeforBre
Bailout Funds
Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
Bailout Funds that Include folks in Immigration Detention + incarcerated and at risk during COVID-19
- Florida
- NYC:
- Hawaii Community Bail Fund
- West Michigan The Kent County I-BOND Immigrant Bond for Our Neighbors’ Defense Fund
- Alabama, Etowah Freedom Fund
- National Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee
- Connecticut Bail Fund