Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May 2007)

For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, why not watch a movie about Asian or Pacific Islander Americans, such as ABCD, about two young Indian Americans who run up against their mother's plans for traditional, arranged marriages or Come See the Paradise, a love story set against the background of the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II?

Or read some fiction about the Asian American experience, like Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club or Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker about the emotional struggles of a young Korean American man in New York City. We have kids' books, too.

We also have non-fiction videos about Asian Americans. Watch the Bill Moyers' specials on Becoming American, the Chinese Experience or check out Journey of Honor to follow a group of Japanese American veterans from Hawaii and their families on a reunion trip to Italy in the spring of 2000. There are a couple of U.S. government-produced videos of films about the internment of Japanese Americans in the World War II Historical Film Collection. All the films in this collection are also available online via Ball State's Digital Media Repository.

Check out some of our pictures and posters of Asian Americans. Or maybe you'd be interested in a family of Asian American puppets, primary sources on The Asian-American Experience on CD-ROM, or a multicultural educational board game called The cultural bag! Asian American.