AMST 151: The Asian American Experience

Interviews (most from 1989) of garment workers who came to New York City from Vietnam, China, the Philippines, and California. Topics covered include emigration to the United States, working conditions, unions, major strikes, and effects of globalization. From NYU's Tamiment Library

13 interviews that document the individual stories and contributions of members of this New York-based nonprofit. Formed in 1978, this feminist organization sought to support, educate and empower Asian-American women.

A gateway to digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums. Collection strengths include California history, Chinese immigration, and the 19th century. Some primary sources are organized into exhibitions, e.g., California Cultures: Asian Americans

"The Densho Archives contain primary sources that document the Japanese American experience from immigration in the early 1900s through redress in the 1980s, with a strong focus on the World War II mass incarceration... Our digital archive includes thousands of historic photographs, documents, newspapers, letters, and more. It is also home to more than 900 visual histories, comprised of over 1,700 hours of recorded, fully transcribed video interviews."

Explore historical collections from libraries, museums, and archives across Massachusetts.

Discover over 42 million images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

This collection from the USC Digital Library includes photographs, documents, and oral interviews.

Over 4000 primary source documents. Browse or search and filter by theme, time period, document type, state, and more.

Digitized documents, photographs, oral histories, and other artifacts related to the Filipino and Filipino American experience.

An excellent list of links to collections of primary source materials related to Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies. From UC Berkeley