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Black Lives Matter.
The year 2020 witnesses a groundswell of various anti-racist sentiments across the globe. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to numerous anti-Asian racist attacks in North America, Europe, the South Pacific, and South Asia, etc. While we condemn these anti-Asian hate crimes, we recognize that such xenophobic violence is tied to imperial and colonial structures that also manifest in anti-Indigeneity, racialized classism, and antiblackness around the world. Victims of pandemic-induced racism also include migrant communities such as Africans in China and migrant workers in Singapore. While Africans in Guangzhou are evicted from their homes and barred from restaurants, the containment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang raise concerns of viral spread, and migrant workers continue to risk being infected by the virus living in crowded dormitories in Singapore.
The most recent murders of Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Ahmaud Arbery in the name of law enforcement again highlights the systemic problems of police brutality and most importantly, the unresolved history of anti-black racism in and beyond the United States. These developments lay bare the fact that we as a global community have repeatedly failed to reckon with our histories of racialised extraction and exploitation. While thousands of protesters took to the street to demand racial justice in the US, similar movements have sprung up across the globe.
As board members of the Society of Sinophone Studies, we recognize the fear, injustice and griefs experienced by communities and individuals that have fallen victim to various forms of violence, discrimination and racist acts. We are in solidarity with those who are protesting globally the tyranny of state-sanctioned violence and systemic racism. We join them to condemn the killing of Floyd and others and related policing practices. While transforming structures requires the decolonizing of our collective minds, we are committed to studying global slavery, race-making, minority rights movements, and their relationship to present day social justice mobilizations.
In these trying times, we want to offer the Society of Sinophone Studies as a platform to provide support for our members and friends by sharing resources to educate us on issues related to anti-racism, political and ethnic violence, Black liberation, intersectional inequality, social justice and civic activism, etc. We believe in the importance of locating collective voices to establish a network of solidarity in order to work toward the eradication of systemic oppression and to fight for justice and equality for marginalized and underrepresented communities. Please find a list of resources below. We will continue to update the resources on our Society of Sinophone Studies website. If you would like to contribute to this list, please email us at admin@sinophonestudies.org
Board Members
Society of Sinophone Studies
*Articles are arranged by date to facilitate routine update of resources.
**We apologize for any repetition of materials since some of the resources we share here are compiled by generous colleagues and peers.
Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council (AP3CON) COVID-19 Resources—“#StopAAPIHate
Treating Yellow Peril: Resources to Address Coronavirus Racism.”
Religious Institute––“Preaching and Congregational Resources for Responding to Racism, White Supremacy, and Police Violence.”
Asian American Feminist Collective––COVID-19 and Anti-Racism Resources.
Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP)–– “Solidarity Matters: Black History Month Through An Asian American Lens.”
Open letter from Freedom Inc.’s Southeast Asian Team on COVID-19 and Black Solidarity
Lausan Collective, Pacific Rim Solidarity Network and Seeding Change–– “Asian leftists challenging global racial capitalism in the time of COVID-19: A joint solidarity statement on global anti-Blackness and racism against African migrants in China during COVID-19.”
Jewher Ilham and Munawwar Abdulla, “China Says There’s No Risk of a COVID-19 Outbreak in Xinjiang Camps. Don’t Believe It.” 28 February 2020.
Lauren Aratani, “‘Coughing while Asian’: living in fear as racism feeds off coronavirus panic.” 24 March 2020.
Paula Larsson. “Coronavirus: how language of disease produces anti-Asian racism, hate and violence.” 31 March 2020.
Crystal Hana Kim, “‘Anti-Asian racism has come roaring back with Covid-19’: Cathy Park Hong on being Asian American.” 1 April 2020.
Seashia Vang, “Trump Adds to Asian-Americans’ Fears: We already have an epic health crisis; we don’t need a racialized social crisis as well.” 1 April 2020.
Laura Zhou. “China to ease coronavirus rules for African nationals after racism accusations.” 14 April 2020.
Dominique Mosbergen, “COVID-19 Surge Exposes Ugly Truth About Singapore’s Treatment Of Migrant Workers.” 24 April 2020.
SCMP Reporters. “China plans to send Uygur Muslims from Xinjiang re-education camps to work in other parts of country.” 2 May 2020.
Phoebe Zhang and Guo Rui. “Coronavirus: crackdowns, racism and forced quarantine heighten tension for Africans in Guangzhou.” 2 May 2020.
Human Rights Watch, “China: Covid-19 Discrimination Against Africans.” 5 May 2020.
April Zhu, “A Lost ‘Little Africa’: How China, Too, Blames Foreigners for the Virus.” 5 May 2020.
Ari Larissa Heinrich, “Before Coronavirus, China was Falsely Blamed for Spreading Smallpox. Racism Played a Roll Then, Too.” 6 May 2020.
Human Rights Watch, “Covid-19 Fueling Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia Worldwide.” 12 May 2020.
Prakhar Raghuvanshi, “The Persecution of the Uighur Minority Amidst COVID-19.” 21 May 2020.
26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets. 29 May 2020.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Of Course there are Protests. The State is Failing Black People.” 29 May 2020
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, “Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge.” 30 May 2020
Su-lin Tan, “‘You Chinese virus spreader’: after coronavirus, Australia has an anti-Asian racism outbreak to deal with.” 30 May 2020.
Soo Youn, “How you can be a better coworker to your black colleagues right now.” 3 June 2020Human Rights Watch, “US: Covid-19 Disparities Reflect Structural Racism, Abuses.” 10 June 2020.
Judith Sunderland, “‘Under water or under a knee, we can’t breathe’: Europe has turned a blind eye to deaths in the Mediterranean.” 11 June 2020.
Colin Drury, “Canadian indigenous chief Allan Adam battered by police during arrest.” 13 June 2020.
Reuters, “Taiwan Black Lives Matter protest gets indigenous twist.” 13 June 2020.
Yuichiro Onishi, “A Politics of Our Time: Reworking Afro-Asian Solidarity in the Wake of George Floyd’s Killing.” 16 June 2020.
Robin D.G. Kelley, “What Kind of Society Values Property over Black Lives?.” 18 June 2020.
PBS Series, Asian Americans (Streaming in the US)
PBS Series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (Streaming in the US)
Documentary Film, Guangzhou Dream Factory: The African Community in Guangzhou, China (Streamable through Kanopy)
Ibram X. Kendi, How to be an Anti-Racist.
Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning.
Lauren Michele Jackson, “What is an Anti Racist Reading List For?” 4 June 2020.
Ibram X. Kendi, “An Antiracist Reading List.” 29 May 2019.
Jessica Grose, “These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids.” 2 June 2020.
Samantha Grindell, “16 anti-racism books for young children.” 8 June 2020.
Marguerite Ward, “18 books on race and white privilege that will show you what's really happening in America right now.” Updated 11 June 2020.
Isabella Rosario, “This List Of Books, Films And Podcasts About Racism Is A Start, Not A Panacea.” 6 June 2020.
The Editors and New York, “7 Anti-Racist Books Recommended by Educators and Activists.” 5 June 2020.
Layla F. Saad, “Do the Work: An Anti-Racist Reading List.” 3 June 2020.
We Need Diverse Books™, “Resources for Race, Equity, Anti-Racism, and Inclusion.”
Black Women Radicals’s “Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List.”
tinyurl.com/floyd-what-can-i-do (google doc)
tinyurl.com/blmforever (google doc)
tinyurl.com/even-more-blm-resources (google doc)
tinyurl.com/patias-fantasy-end-racism (google spreadsheet)
tinyurl.com/floyd-national-resource-list (google doc)
tinyurl.com/resistance-resource-hub (google doc)
tinyurl.com/police-brutality-records (google spreadsheet attempting to catalogue all known instances of police brutality related to BLM protests)