![]() “Our cousins have done this program,” Sophie whispers. TO READ FOR ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH Reading can’t solve all the problems in the world (though we wish it did), but it can be a direct way to support Asian authors and learn more about their experiences, cultures, and histories through storytelling. If you’re looking for reads about the Asian American experience of the past and present, we also got you covered. To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, here are 38 books by Asian authors that have Asian (or Asian-inspired, in the case of fantasy worlds!) protagonists at the helm. It’s important to recognize that the Asian American experience is not a monolith and there are still many stories to be told. ![]() But the history is often not taught in schools and is boiled down to a singular experience. May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and it celebrates the cultures, traditions, and history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.įrom “the sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500 to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II” to the activists organizing against Asian hate today, there has been a long history of Asian individuals in this country. ![]()
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