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Beyond Chinatowns: These places explore the roots of Asian America From Chinese railroad workers in Utah to Filipino shrimpers in Louisiana, here are tales of immigration, struggle, and belonging. Shops and restaurants in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo keep alive the history of the city‘s Japanese American community.Photograph by Aaron Perez, Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images ByLisa Kwon Email Tie Sing knew how to make a meal to remember. The Chinese American backcountry cook once prepared a dinner for U.S. Geological Survey explorers that was so memorable the mapmakers lavishly detailed each course soup, trout, fried potatoes, string beans, fresh bread, hot apple pie, coffee in reports about their two-week expedition through what is now Yosemite National Park. ....
May 5, 2021 May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and there are many official events and tributes happening around the country to celebrate the contributions and achievements of the AAPI community. However, it’s also important that the activities we attend and media we consume throughout the entire year reflect a wide variety of experiences, including a diverse selection from the AAPI community. To that end, we have collected 16 books for children and teens that center the AAPI experience in different ways, but this is just a taste. Feel free to put your favorite books that focus on the AAPI community in the comments. ....