We would like to highlight these great resources compiled by the Minority Genetics Professionals Network (MGPN) Hispanic/Latinx Subgroup and the Mountain States Regional Genetics Network. We encourage our members to utilize these and other resources to enhance their counseling and provide in language resources to the diverse population within Southern California.
Updated: Nov 9, 2021
Xenophobic rhetoric during the pandemic has caused a rise in hate crimes and harassment against the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Our hearts go out to the victims and loved ones of these horrendous attacks, many of which have occurred in our own state. Southern California Genetic Counselors (SCGC) stands in solidarity with the AAPI community. We echo NSGC in bringing awareness to this injustice and are committed to creating and supporting a more diverse and inclusive profession for our members and the communities we serve.
We must all do our part to stand up against hate in its many forms. As we have previously created a list of some resources to assist with your anti-racism work highlighting the experiences of the African American community, we have also created a (non-exhaustive) list of resources that focus on the Asian American experience and ways you can help.
Resources & Organizations
How to take action against anti-Asian racism at work and in your personal life
Anti-racism resources to support Asian American, Pacific Islander community
APIENC: Building Transgender, Non-Binary, and Queer API Power
Get Involved & Donate
History
The New Yorker: The History of Anti-Asian-American Violence
The Harvard Gazette: The scapegoating of Asian Americans
History.com: Japanese Internment Camps
Books
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee
11 must-read books if you want to better understand the experiences of Asian-Americans
Social Justice Books: The best selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, YA, and educators.
Media, Film, & Television Series
PBS: Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that delivers a bold, fresh perspective on a history that matters today, more than ever. Told through intimate personal stories, the series will cast a new lens on U.S. history and the ongoing role that Asian Americans have played.
Center for Asian American Media: 20 Things to Watch and Listen to in Celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islanders.
Try Guys Presents: We Need to Talk About Anti-Asian Hate
Race in America: Allyship with NAACP LDF President & Director-Counsel Sherrilyn Ifill & AAJC President John C. Yang
Podcasts
Podcast Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective
Asian American History 101: a podcast co-hosted by Gen and Ted Lai, a daughter and father team. The podcast will entertain and educate people as Gen and Ted dive into the vast history of Asian Americans from their contributions to their struggles to their triumphs.
AsianBossGirl: Episode 108: Women Who Inspire Us & What It's Like to be an Asian Woman in Today's World
Dear Asian Americans: a podcast for and by Asian Americans, focusing on authentic storytelling rooted in origin, identity, and legacy.
Self Evident where we tell Asian America’s stories, to explore what it really means to claim America today
Diversify your feed (social media accounts that amplify and highlight the Asian/Asian American experience)
News & Media
AAPI Creators
Activism
Updated: May 26, 2021
August 28, 2020 is the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech at the 1963 March on Washington. SCGC stands in solidarity with the racial justice movement in support of Black lives. It is crucial for all of our members to actively support the racial justice movement for all people of color, by actively supporting, protecting, and uplifting our community of color members in the fight for civil rights, beginning with efforts such as education, advocacy, and direct action. To assist your anti-racism work, we have compiled a (non-exhaustive) list of resources that may be helpful in your journey of unlearning and dismantling systemic racism within our professional networks and beyond. We owe it to our members of color, colleagues, patients, families, and communities at large to help create lasting change that fosters respect, equity and justice. Black Lives Matter.
March on Washington
Applying Racial and Social Justice in Your Genetic Counseling Practice:
History:
Podcasts, Articles, Books, Films:
Podcasts: Seeing White, United States of Anxiety, Nice White Parents, Code Switch, Race Forward, See Something, In Those Genes
Articles: The Case for Reparations, America's Racial Contract is Killing Us, My Life as An Undocumented Immigrant, NY Times Race and Ethnicity Newsletter, The Racial Wealth Gap, The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an 'Abberation', The Bias of 'Professionalism' Standards
Books: White Rage, The New Jim Crow, The History of White People, An Indigenous People's History of the United States, These Truths: A History of the United States, How to Be an Antiracist, Their Eyes Were Watching God, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Americanah, So You Want to Talk About Race
Films:
13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent online
I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Hulu
Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent online
Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Prime Video
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Prime Video
When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
Get Involved, Donate:
Take action regarding specific Black victims of police brutality
Black-owned businesses in LA, LA Times list of Black-owned businesses, https://blackownedinla.com/, Black-owned businesses in Orange County, Black-owned businesses in San Diego
RAICES: The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services
COVID-19 Emergency Drive (local)