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Books
- Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity and Ethnicity by Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou
- The Asian American Achievement Paradox by Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou
- The “Unknown”; Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now by Janine Myung Ja
- Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism by Kim Park Nelson
- Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
- Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
- Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey by GB Tran
- They Called US Exceptional: and Other Lies that Raised Us by Prachi Gupta
- What My Bones Know :A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
- Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health As Asian Americans by Jenny Wang
- The Child Behind the Bushes by Kyoung Mi Choi
Movies/Documentaries
Movies
- Enter the Dragon (1973)
- The Joy Luck Club (1993)
- Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
- The Namesake (2006)
- Children of Invention (2009)
- Bitter Melon (2018)
- The Farewell (2019)
- Minari (2020)
Documentaries
- Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1988)
- Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994)
- The Split Horn: The Life of a Hmong Shaman in America (2001)
- CAN (2006)
- Vincent Who? (2009)
- Asian Americans (2020)
- Silent War: Asian American Reckonings with Mental Health
- Dr. Chang Changfu, an award winning film-maker (Love Without Boundaries, Illicit: The Dark Trade, Long Wait For Home, The Invisible Red Thread, Meet Me On the Bridge) His most recent work on mental health, Silent War, tells the stories of Asian American families struggling with mental health. A tragic death befalls a family, yet it takes years to recognize the root cause until the daughter falls sick. Signs of a child’s battle with depression continue to mount, but her parents deny the gravity of the situation until it’s almost too late. Two families are forced to live with the dire consequences of discrimination and bear the weight of racial trauma. And a group of Asian American youths share their lived experiences navigating the complex terrain of identity, race, gender, and sexuality. Also featured include the voices of inspiring community leaders determined to change the way we approach mental health. Here’s the link to the documentary: www.silentwarmovie.com
Podcasts
They Call Us Rina Oh, Epstein Survivor – They Call Us Bruce
Jeff and Phil welcome artist, author and advocate Rina Oh, one of the only Asian American women to publicly share her experience as a victim of sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. She shares about her journey as an immigrant and striving artist that eventually led her into the orbit of the disgraced financier — a relationship marked by manipulation, exploitation, and ultimately, regret. She talks about the reckoning still yet to come, as details about the web of players from the Epstein investigation continue to come to light. Rina also shares about her journey of healing and renewal as a survivor and artist. Also: The Good, The Bad, and The WTF of the release of the Epstein files.
Nat Myers | KY – Southern Fried Asian
Southern Fried Asian returns for a special AAPI Heritage Month episode featuring Kentucky-based blues musician, Nat Myers! He and Keith discuss the events that inspired his forthcoming album, Yellow Peril and his connection to Aquaman himself, Jason Momoa. Hard NOC Media is brought to you by Paramount+. Get lost in new seasons and new series you won't find anywhere else on Paramount+. Try it FREE! https://paramountplus.qflm.net/c/4058705/1001331/3065 Subscribe to the Southern Fried Asian podcast on iTunes, Google Play, NPR One, Spotify, and Stitcher Radio! Support Hard NOC Media on Patreon and GoFundMe. Buy merch on TeePublic! Subscribe to our YouTube channel! Also, welcome new listeners who have found this podcast because Vanity Fair named it an "essential AAPI listen!" Our official theme music is the song "Top Down" by Chops, Timothy Flu, and Mic Barz. Podcast logo by Jef Castro. Southern Fried Asian is produced by Keith Chow and Jes Vu.
Season 9, Ep. 10: Finishing the Game – Saturday School Podcast
It's our final episode of our 9th season of Saturday School, which covers "Stars of Asian American Cinema." Before YouTube, if you wanted to see an abundance of stories with Asian Americans as stars, you'd have to go to an Asian American film festival. And there, we had our own stars who would walk down our own red carpets and get standing ovations at our own screenings (regardless of whether Hollywood took notice). For the last 9 episodes, we've been paying tribute to some of the regulars of that scene — and if we missed anyone, chances are they are in our season-concluding film, 2007's "Finishing the Game," directed by Justin Lin. To guide us through this 1970s-set mockumentary which follows a casting call for a new stand-in for Bruce Lee, we have a special guest! We welcome Phil Yu, our fellow Potluck Podcast Collective member who hosts They Call Us Bruce, All The Asians on Star Trek and the official "Squid Game" podcast. You might also know him as the blogger behind Angry Asian Man and the co-author of "Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now." But guess what, he was also an extra in "Finishing the Game" who shows up for 1 second just before the credits. "Finishing the Game," at its heart, is about all the pre-2010s anxiety about what we would need in order to have an Asian American leading man in Hollywood. Not a loveable sweetheart (like Sung Kang's character in the film), a serious actor (like Dustin Nguyen's character), reliable B-Lister (like Roger Fan's character) or Asian star visiting from a foreign country (like Leonardo Nam's character), but a bankable Asian American Hollywood star who could greenlight a film and get the screaming fans to show up. At the time, it was almost unimaginable. But now, we can see why it was so important that we continued — and continue — to imagine.
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