If you're interested in history of Asian Americans in US military deployed to Vietnam ("this is what a gook looks like"), @Simeon_Man's SOLDIERING THROUGH EMPIRE is #mustread #AsianAmPBS https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520283367/soldiering-through-empire
Asian American nurses served in Vietnam -- histories of nursing + empire connected in so many ways (see for instance @CCenizaChoy's EMPIRE OF CARE) #AsianAmPBS https://www.dukeupress.edu/empire-of-care
SF State College Third World Liberation Front launched longest student strike US history, solidarity w/ppl of Global South, led to 1st Ethnic Studies program in US #AsianAmPBS https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/03/21/704930088/the-student-strike-that-changed-higher-ed-forever
STRIKE! self determination, disrupt, bullhorns! curriculum proposals for Asian American Studies courses! (Did you notice Iranian Student Association poster?) #shutitdown #AsianAmPBS
Ronald Reagan + S.I. Hayakwa sporting his signature tam-o-shanter ("I'm the first Japanese Uncle Tom in history, I think it's an achievement") BOO #AsianAmericanPBS
SF State has an archival collection of primary sources from student strike: https://library.sfsu.edu/sf-state-strike-collection #AsianAmPBS
THE Asian American Movement! Here's my recap in 250 words (scroll to bottom) #AsianAmPBS @https://time.com/4941542/american-history-myths/
. @Tadillac1's A SONG FOR OURSELVES is an amazing doc on the Asian American Movement w/killer footage, graphics, soundtrack -- catch it here: #AsianAmPBS
Would there even be an "Asian America," or Asian Americans, without the anti-war and Black Power movements? These two movements were absolutely fundamental to formation of "Asian American" identity #AsianAmPBS
If you haven't looked @ primary sources from Asian American Movement, well worth your time to browse GIDRA magazine (Los Angeles, 1969-1974) #AsianAmPBS http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-297/
. @viet_t_nguyen on his refugee family's experience + *literally* rewriting the history of America's military intervention in Vietnam #AsianAmPBS
. @viet_t_nguyen on learning about "the necessity of Asian American Studies as an activist practice" as college student #AsianAmPBS
Asian American Studies courses taught at San Quentin
offered through Asian Prison Support Committee @AsianPrisonerSC #AsianAmPBS

Episode 5: @harikondabolu: DON'T FREAK OUT WHITE PEOPLE (+ shout out to the one and only always fierce @margaretcho!) #AsianAmericansPBS
. @harikondabolu: "I grew up in the future. It's Queens" #AsianAmPBS
Rest in Power Vincent Chin https://www.history.com/news/vincent-chin-murder-asian-american-rights #AsianAmPBS
Who Killed Vincent Chin? #mustwatch #AsianAmPBS Shttp://www.pbs.org/pov/watch/whokilledvincentchin/
. @RevJJackson showing up for Asian Americans in aftermath of Chin's murder #AsianAmPBS
Vincent Chin case first hate crime prosecution for Asian Americans but conviction overturned on appeal https://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/35-years-after-vincent-chins-murder-how-has-america-changed #AsianAmPBS
Mee Moua = first Hmong elected state official (Minnesota) #AsianAmPBS https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?id=10744
On race in Los Angeles, Black-Asian relations, context for 1992 uprising , see historian Brenda Stevenson THE CONTESTED MURDER OF LATASHA HARLINS #AsianAmPBS https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-contested-murder-of-latasha-harlins-9780199944576?cc=us&lang=en&
Sa-I-Gu Los Angeles April 29, 1992 #AsianAmPBS
. @zentronix: "Our revolutionary dreams were going up in smoke" #AsianAmPBS
Angela Oh: "Korean America was born in 1992" #AsianAmPBS
Viet Nguyen: That's the hope of [racial] solidarity -- to reject white supremacy + transform the system #AsianAmPBS
Do you Yahoo?! (the "world wide web") #AsianAmPBS
Asian Am journalists have been/remain INVALUABLE for highlighting issues in our community #AsianAmPBS
*rooting around for "Paid By The Piece" coverage of low-wage Silicon Valley piecework by K. Oanh Ha (1999) but San Jose Mercury News website doesn't seem to have it*
*rooting around for "Paid By The Piece" coverage of low-wage Silicon Valley piecework by K. Oanh Ha (1999) but San Jose Mercury News website doesn't seem to have it*
Tereza Lee, "The Original DREAMer" #AsianAmPBS https://www.npr.org/2018/06/20/622002025/the-original-dreamer-recalls-all-pervasive-fear-as-an-undocumented-child
Adding a plug here for @dviyer's WE TOO SING AMERICA, an incomparable resource on post-9/11 experiences of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, Sikh Americans #AsianAmPBS https://thenewpress.com/books/we-too-sing-america
That's a wrap! GRATITUDE to everyone who made #AsianAmPBS come together! #AsianAmericanHistoryFuckYeah #instantclassic
