Stop AAPI Hate

In response to an unacceptable period of anti-Asian harassment and violence, CMA staff has compiled this collection of resources to help advance anti-racism work in our community and beyond. We recognize that this is a small sample of the numerous comprehensive resources currently available on these issues. We invite you to begin here and to never stop learning.

Read Chamber Music America Condemnation of Anti-Asian Racism and Violence and Support of our AAPI Community, March 2021

Literature by living authors has been marked with a caret (^).

Updated: October 3, 2022

• Stop AAPI Hate
• Anti-Asian Violence Resources
• AAPI Women Lead
• National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
• Protect Chinatown (NYC)
• Anti-Asian Bias Reporting Form
• Right to Be Bystander Intervention Training

• AAPI Community Fund (GoFundMe.org)
• 61 Ways to Donate in Support of Asian Communities (continuously updated)
• Red Canary Song
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice
• Asian American Resource Center (AARC)
• Center for Pan-Asian Community Services (CPACS)
• Asian Pacific Fund
• Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
• National Organization of Asians and Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence (NAPIESV)
• Asian/Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP)
• Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
• GAPIMNY
• Q-Wave
• The Southeast Asian Diaspora Project (The SEAD Project)

• “Just Another Dumb Asian Singer” Nicholas Phan^
• “Orientalism in American Classical Music” Shi-An Costello (世 安)^ (NewMusicBox)
• Centering the Picture: The role of race & ethnicity in cultural engagement Sloverlinett Audience Research

• “The long history of US racism against Asian Americans, from ‘yellow peril’ to ‘model minority’ to the ‘Chinese virus’” (The Conversation)
• “Ignoring The History Of Anti-Asian Racism Is Another Form Of Violence” Connie Wun^ (Elle)
• “The Long History Of Sexual And Physical Violence Asian Women Face In The U.S.” (NPR)

• The Making of Asian America: A History Erika Lee^
• Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties Karen L. Ishizuka^
• Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans Jean Pfaelzer^
• Orientalism Edward Said
• Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown Nayan Shah^
• Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture Robert G. Lee^
• Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream 1899-1999 edited by Angel Velasco Shaw^ and Luis H. Francia
• To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of Korean Adoption Arissa Oh^
• The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority Ellen D. Wu^

• Anti-Asian violence in Atlanta: Red Canary Song’s Yves Tong Nguyen on the mental health of Asian sex workers & massage workers (Minor Feelings Podcast; Spotify)
• Screams and Silence (Code Switch; NPR)
• The Coronavirus and Anti-Asian Racism (Asia Society)
• Self Evident
• Asian Americans Talk About Racism, and We Listen Pt.1 (New York Times‘ Still Processing podcast; Spotify)
• Asian Americans Talk About Racism, and We Listen Pt.2 (New York Times‘ Still Processing podcast; Spotify)

• PBS Documentary: Asian Americans
• The Chinese Exclusion Act (PBS)
• Asian American Documentary Network (YouTube Channel)