Nurse activist reading for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
As we celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, here are some of the books by AAPI authors and about the AAPI experience we’re reading.
These selections illustrate that even in the face of discrimination, violence, racism, and xenophobia, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are organizing and building powerful movements for social justice. We hope these stories can be an inspiration to all nurses as we fight to protect our patients, our communities, and ourselves!
Non-fiction recommendations
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino History by Catherine Ceniza Choy
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation by Diane Fujino and Robin Magalit Rodriguez
Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s China Town by Nayan Shah
Asian America, 2nd Edition by Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
Heartbeat of a Struggle: the Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kuchiyama by Diane C. Fujino
From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i by Haunani K. Trask
Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Take on the Global Factory by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
We Too Sing America by Depa Iyer
China on Strike by Eli Friedman, Zhongjin Li, and Hao Ren
Fiction recommendations
This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang