Mullaney is not a technologist, nor is he one of those Dvorak keyboard enthusiasts. Through this sensitive tribute to one woman’s fight for inclusivity, children can develop a richer understanding of just how recently segregation shaped American life, and how the fight for representation continues to matter deeply.On a bright fall morning at Stanford, Tom Mullaney is telling me what’s wrong with QWERTY keyboards. Though her reluctant publisher initially passed on Babies, her book about a diverse group of multicultural children, Fujikawa pushed back, and Babies went on to sell over two million copies. As her heart broke for her family, Fujikawa strove to represent children from all backgrounds in her books. Raised in a strong and loving California household, Fujikawa avoided imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp while living in New York City, but her California-based family was not so fortunate. Struggling to talk with the children in your life about how racism targets Asian American communities? In this beautifully illustrated biography, Maclear and artist Julie Morstad educate young readers about the life of Gyo Fujikawa, the groundbreaking author and illustrator of children’s literature who advocated tirelessly for racial diversity in picture books. Once your reading is underway, you may also want to check out the film and TV adaptations of these vivid stories. And don’t miss out on the nonfiction classics that broach topics like immigration, war, and activism, as well as poetry about the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality. There’s juicy yet heartwrenching fiction that dissects generational trauma, first love, and issues of identity.

From Academy Award winning films to viral sensation TV shows to earworm pop songs, the AAPI artists have been busy.įor anyone who likes to learn or get their entertainment the old-fashioned way-for example, by cracking open a book-we’ve pulled together a list of twenty books that illuminate different facets of the Asian American experience. In the 31 years since, the AAPI community has continued to tell their own stories, producing some of the most culturally significant works of art in recent history.

In 1992, the week was developed into a month. Congress that the first ten days of May would commemorate Asian American communities’ contributions in American history. In June 1977, Representative Frank Horton of New York and Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawai'i proposed to the U.S. April showers bring May flowers, and lucky for us, they also bring AAPI Heritage Month.

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