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Indexes & Directories

Asian American Film.com - (dead link)
"The purpose of AsianAmericanFilm.com is to build an engaged, involved, active, and excited audience for Asian American films."

• Asian American Film & Video Database - (dead link)

Asian American Journalists Association

Asian Pacific American Resources at the Smithsonian - (dead link)
"This brochure was published by the Smithsonian's Office of Public Affairs, April 1997.

Asian-Nation
The Landscape of Asian America
"...your one-stop information source on the historical, political, social, economic, and cultural elements and issues that make up today's diverse Asian American community. You can almost think of Asian-Nation as an online version of 'Asian Americans 101.'"
Sections include: Culture ; History ; Immigration ; Issues ; Links ; Viet Nam

Association of Asian American Studies

Beginning Library Research on Asian American Studies
A Stanford University Libraries online guide but contains a bibliography of standard academic resources and a useful listing of Library of Congress subject headings that makes subject searching on online library catalogs easier.

Chinese Organizations in the USA (includes Hawaii)

Internet Resources on Asian Americans
From East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
Sections include: Multiculturalism ; The Wen Ho Lee Case ; Communities ; Culture & the Arts ; Japanese Internment ; Immigration & Asylum ; General Information ; Political & Social Issues ; Media ; History.

Japanese American Citizens League

Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC)

Japanese American National Museum

Japanese American Network
Sections include: History ; Community Directory ; Public Policy ; Little Tokyo, Los Angeles ; Arts & Culture ; Social Services ; News & Events ; Just for Fun.
Based in Los Anglese

Korean American Historical Society

Korean American Media - (dead link)

Korean American Museum

National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium

Nikkei Home Page - (dead link)
By R. Russell Nakatsu

Organization of Chinese Americans

PBS - American Experience - Daughter from Danang (April 2003)
Web companion to the TV broadcast.
American Award Nominee - Best Documentary.
"A Vietnamese mother and her Amerasian daughter are reunited after years apart...cuts between mother and daughter as the two recall the pain of their separation, and retraces Hiep's journey from Vietnam to Pulaski, Tennessee, where she is adopted by a single woman and renamed Heidi."
Sections include: Transcript ; Primary Sources ; Further Readings

PBS - Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (March-April 2003)
A Bill Moyers Special
Programs Titles: Gold Mountain Dreams ; Between Two Worlds ; No Turning Back ; Personal Journeys.
Sections include: Portraits ; The Chinese Experience ; Eyewitness Accounts ; Timeline ; Resources ; Educational Guide.

PBS - Independent Lens - SHAOLIN ULYSSES: Kungfu Monks in America (October 2003)
Web companion to the PBS broadcast of the independent film by Martha Burr and Mei-Juin Chen.
"The famous fighting monks of the Shaolin monastery have seen a resurgence throughout the world, aided in part by the popularity of kungfu movies among the hip-hop set and films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The film follows a handful of Shaolin monks who have brought the style to America, chronicling their adventures in New York City, Houston and Las Vegas."
Sections include: The Monks ; About Shaolin ; Kungfu Goes West ; The Filmmakers ; Learn More ; Inside Shaolin.

PBS - Searching For Asian America (May 2004)
"Take a Journey to Discover the Richness and Diversity of the Asian American Experience"
Companion website to the TV broadcast.
Sections include: The Governor [Gov. Gary Locke, Washington] ; Oklahoma Home ; Angry Little Asian Girl ; Asian American Field Reports ; Quiz Yourself ; Take a Poll.

Preliminary Guide to Resources on Asian Pacific American Artists at the Archives of American Art - (dead link)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art

Recommended Asian American Websites
"This list includes selected Asian American web resources useful for academic research and information purposes...Only Web sites that are reflective of Asian American realities were considered; sites that are exclusively Asian in origin or focus are only rarely included. Recommended Web sites listed below were evaluated for breadth, perceived authority, stability, usefulness, and accuracy
By Susan A. Vega Garcia, Diversity & Ethnic Studies, Iowa State University

Selected Laws and Governmental Policies Affecting Asian-Pacific Americans
From the Race and Racism in American Law page
University of Dayton School of Law

Taiwanese American Citizens League

Teaching Asian American Studies: A Selected Bibliography
"This bibliography is only a small selection from the nearly 10,000 articles and books produced over the last 20 years in Asian American Studies. It is only meant to provide the users with the beginning points in their search for lecture and teaching materials on Asians in America. This was compiled by ICenyon S. Chan (Asian American Studies, California State University, Northridge) and Shirley Hune (Urban Planning, UCLA), 1995."

UCLA Asian American Studies Center

University of Southern California - Korean Heritage Library - (dead link)

• Koreans in America Bibliography - (dead link)

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