Asian American Research

1. Resource Guides
2. Census
3. Academic Programs and Center
4. Journals and Newspapers
5. Organizations OnLine
6. Student Groups
7. Culture and Experience

1. Resource Guides

• ACON-Asian Community Online Network San Francisco Bay Area based ACON seeks to link individuals and organizations in the Asian Pacific American community devoted to: Social Service, Civil Rights, Health Services, Education, Employment and the Arts.
• The Alternative Research Center Media related and alternative press resources
• Asian American Resources One of the original resource guides and still the best. New stuff is added all the time. Now at MIT.
• BARANGAY(Bay Area Resource and Networking Guide for Active Youth) "Barangay" is the Tagalog word for "village" or "neighborhood." Project PULL's BARANGAY is a resource for community networking. It is intended to strengthen affinity with and among the Filipino youth, youth development, and youth service communities.
• India Currents Magazine-South Asian Resource Guide
• NAAATA Film and Video Catalog The 1995 edition of our catalog features over 30 new works and showcases voices, issues and experiences from diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
• Southeast Asian Resources The Southeast Asian collection stands as an integrated part of research resources of the Hatcher Graduate Library (U.Mich)
• Steph Tai's Queer Asian Pacific Resources
• UC Berkeley Media Resources Center Asian American Videography
• Yahoo Asian American Studies List

2. Census Information Sources

• Asian American Census Statistics Press release about recent census data findings relating to APA's
• US Census Bureau Home Page Home page of this government organization with various links to data of all types
• 1990 Census Lookup Create tables from census data using the provided search engine
• Los Angeles Atlas
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Census Bureau Data Maps

3. Academic Programs and Centers

• UCLA Asian American Studies Center
• UC Berkeley
• UC Santa Barbara
• Asian American Studies, California State University, Northridge

4. Journals and Newspapers

• Asian Pacific American Journal
• Darpan - a literary magazine to explore reflections of India
• Hum Online - South Asian American stories
• @Live:The Asian American Connection
• Yolk Magazine
• Asian American Policy Review - Kennedy School of Government
• A Magazine
• Transpacific Magazine
• Filipinas Magazine's Web Page
• Welcome to TMIWEB Home of Great Asian American Magazines And More
• Giant Robot / an asian american zine
• India Currents Magazine "The Complete Indian-American Magazine "
• Pacific Citizen A bi-monthly newpaper published since 1934 by the Japanese American Citizen's League - email address
• Pakistan Link A Los Angeles based weekly newspaper. "Largest Pakistani-American Weekly Circulated Coast to Coast" - email address

5. Organizations OnLine

• Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
• Asian American Association
• Asian American Writers Workshop is a NYC-based non profit dedicated to the creation, publication, and dissemination of works by Asian American writers.
• Asian Community Online Network
• Nation of Hawai'i
• APEX - Asian Professional Exchange
• Asian American Journalists Association's home page
• Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum - In addition to publishing a journal this consortium is working toward the creation of an online information resource for national API health issues and concerns
• Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership CAPAL was founded in 1989 by Asian Pacific American (APA) professionals as a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization.
• Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA)
• Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars
• David See-Chai Lam Centre for Industrial Communication and Management Technology
• Little Tokyo Service Center Also includes information on Japanese American community organizations in LA
• NAAAP Chicago The National Association of Asian American Professionals is a non-profit 501 (c)(3), all-volunteer organization whose mission is to promote the personal and professional development of the Asian American community.
• NAAAP Houston
• SCAA Boston ChapterSCAA-BOS started out as an informal gathering of SCAA (Soc.Culture.Asian.American USENET newsgroup) readers living in Boston, with the purpose of matching faces with names (and personalities :).
• Visual Communications "Founded in 1970 by artists, educators and community activists, Visual Communications began as collective of concerned Asian Pacific Americans who wanted to create positive alternatives to the racist depictions of their communities which were then prevalent in the mass media.... Twenty-five years after its founding, Visual Communications is now America's oldest Asian Pacific media arts center."

• Organizations of Chinese Americans - email address

6. Student Groups

• Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
• AAA at Indiana Asian American Association at Indiana University
• Asian American Medical Student Group (AAMSG) at The Ohio State University
• Asian Club at the University of Redlands
• Asian Pacific American Law Student Association at the USC Law Center (APALSA)
• Asian Pacific American-University of Ilinois, Urbana-Champaign Good source of info. on APA's in the mid-west.
• Brown University Korean Students Association
• Columbia University Asian American Alliance
• Filipino Club of Honolulu Community College
• Ohio State University Asian American Medical Student Group
• PacTies-UCLA Asian Pacific American Newspaper
• "South Asian American Students (SAAS)" is the largest group representing South Asia on MIT's campus.
• Stanford Asian American Students' Association (AASA)
• Stanford Asian American Activities Center
• Tomodachi-Japanese American Student group web page at UC Berkeley
• UCLA-Nikkei Student Union
• UCLA-United Cambodian Students
• UCLA-VNLC: Vietnamese Language and Culture Program
• University at Buffalo's Asian American Student Union WebPage
• UNC Chapel Hill - Asian Student Association

7. Culture and Experience

• AArising Records This Bay Area organization focuses on the Asian American music and recording scene.
• Asian American Christian Ministry's Home Page!
• Asian American Media Mall The charter of this Mall is to bring Media targeted to Asian Americans to Asian Americans on the web. Further, to help empower Asian Americans on the internet's world wide web.
• Asian Improv aRts Links Page
• Asian Movies Homepage
• ChannelA- Feed Your ImaginAsian
• Diversity on the Web
• Hmong Homepage
• Korean American Museum of Art and Cultural Center
• Lea Salonga web page
• Life in a Vietnamese Gang
• Totally Asian This web site was created to allow an open forum for everyone around the world to express their ideas (political or just personal) without any censorship, as long as it's remotely related to Asia.
• 14th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival