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East Asians and Pacific Islanders

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General Asians and Pacific Islanders


Asian Americans for Community Involvement, San José Opens in new window
  • Organization concerned with the welfare of Asian Pacific Americans, including bilingual services and health clinic

Examination of Education and Income Levels Among Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Groups in the U.S. Opens in new window
  • API groups’ educational attainment and household income levels
  • Challenges faced by API students in post-secondary education
  • Resources used by institutions with large API student enrollment to address these challenges

Internet Resources on Asian Americans Opens in new window
  • Asian-American history, political and social issues, culture, communities, immigration, asylum, etc.



Chinese


Chinese Historical and Cultural Project, Sunnyvale, CA Opens in new window
 



Japanese


100 Titles : A Basic Library on Japanese Americans Opens in new window
  • "The best work on Japanese Americans, whether academic or popular, historical or social scientific, fiction or non-fiction, obscure or well known."

Confinement and Ethnicity : An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites Opens in new window
  • Illustrated online book on the story of the forced evacuations (mostly in 1942) of nearly 120,000 Japanese-American citizens following Pearl Harbor and on each of the War Relocation Authority internment camps to which they were sent.

Japanese American Culture and History in the Santa Clara Valley — Japanese American Museum, San José Opens in new window
 

Japanese American History Archives, San Francisco Opens in new window
  • Books, journals, documents, maps, photos, art, and film on the Japanese in the U.S., mid-1800s-present

Japanese American Internee Data File 1942-1946 Opens in new window
  • Personal descriptive data on Japanese Americans evacuated to relocation centers during World War II

Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles Opens in new window
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive Opens in new window
  • Digital "thematic collection" on the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps
  • Primary sources: photographs, documents, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, oral histories, etc.

Nikkei History and More — Discover Nikkei Opens in new window


Koreans


Information Gateway to Korea : Research, Art, News, Publications, Jobs, Youth, Women, etc. — Korea Web Opens in new window
 

Internet Resources Subject Guides on Korean Materials Opens in new window
  • Korean bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographies, and links organized by subject

Korean American Digital Archive Opens in new window
  • Documents, photographs, and sound files on the Korean American community 1903-1965



Vietnamese


Vietnamese Culture, History, and Diaspora — Vietnamese Studies Internet Resource Center Opens in new window
  • Online research papers, bibliographies of articles and books, census data, etc.

Vietnamese Studies Lists of Books and Articles Opens in new window
 


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