LibGuides: Virtual Book Display: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. A rather broad term, Asian/Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, and Easter Island).

In celebration, we have compiled a list of books and ebooks from the Cullom-Davis Library highlighting Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and a range of experiences within Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. More titles are available featuring Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the library catalog.

Library Catalog
Use the library catalog to access many different kinds of library resources, including books, ebooks, streaming video, articles, and more.

Additional collections and organizations to visit

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month (US Gov)
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America's history and are instrumental in its future success.
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Resouce Center
Information curated by the Federal Asian Pacific American Council (FAPAC) to educate the public about AAPIs and celebrate AANHPI Heritage Month.
Asian American and Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander Heritage Month (National Parks Service)
Every May during Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month and throughout the year, the National Park Service and our partners share those histories and the continuing culture thriving in parks and communities today.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (archives.gov)
The National Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Asian and Pacific Islander experience, and it highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (History.com)
Origins of AAPI Heritage Month
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (PBS)
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month this May and every day with a special PBS collection of stories that explores the history, traditions and culture of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
Listen: Celebrate AAPI Month 2021 With This Playlist Featuring Artists Of Asian & Pacific Islander Descent
While the AAPI experience is far more vast than four letters can hold, AAPI Heritage Month provides ample opportunity to explore the infinite reaches of what Asian, Asian-American and Pacific Islander art can be—and this playlist can be your soundtrack
Stop AAPI Hate
Our communities stand united against racism. Hate against Asian American Pacific Islander communities has risen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, we can stop it.

Virtual Book Display

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

The Color of Success

Minor Feelings

They Called Us Enemy

The Making of Asian America

Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism

Filipino American Lives

Quiet odyssey : a pioneer Korean woman in America

The Blind Writer

How to Be South Asian in America

Weiwei-Isms

Understanding Bharati Mukherjee

Growing up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction

Imagining Asia in the Americas

Asian American Elders in the Twenty-First Century

The First Chinese American

Little Fires Everywhere

The Joy Luck Club

To All the Boys I've Loved Before

To Paradise

Legend

I. M. Pei

The Boat Rocker

Tell This Silence

Fixer Chao

Charlie Chan

All You Can Ever Know

Yellow

Heartwood

Oceania

Good Americans

Additional collections and organizations to visit