Racism against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders has a long and painful history. In light of the recent increase in hate crimes, this history has become all the more urgent, even as “model minority” myths obscure a clear picture of this persistent struggle. This evolving list, compiled by multiple contributors across departments at MoMA, brings together readings and films as well as links to grassroots organizations and community businesses that you can support immediately to make sure the history we’ve inherited is not the future we perpetuate.
–Simon Wu
Some Readings
Gordon H. Chang, Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad (Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020)
Gordon H. Chang, “Whose ‘Barbarism’? Whose ‘Treachery’? Race and Civilization in the Unknown United States-Korea War of 1871,” The Journal of American History 89, no. 4 (2003): 1331-365.
Iris Chang, The Chinese in America: a Narrative History (New York: Penguin Books, 2003)
Some Listening
Hear David Henry Hwang discuss Martin Wong’s Stanton Near Forsyth Street with curator Michelle Kuo, as part of the MoMA and BBC Series The Way I See It