Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

The Mercer University Libraries celebrates Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month on behalf of our students, faculty, and staff who are a part of this diverse community. During May, check out the following films, books, and web resources.  

Films

These dramas and documentaries are a part of the Asian American and Pacific Islander film collection in Kanopy, which can be accessed through the Mercer University Libraries.

• Eat with Me
• Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
• To You Sweetheart, Aloha
• To Be Takei: A Star’s Trek to Life, Liberty, and Love
• The Grace Lee Project: Deconstructing and Asian American Stereotype
• Meet the Patels
• Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol: An Iconic Photo of a Japanese Internee
• Bad Rap: The Lives and Careers of Four Asian-American Rappers
• A Lot Like You: Exploring Multiracial Identity
• Come as You Are

Books

Browse a few of these fiction and non-fiction books available through the libraries.

• Our Voices, Our Histories: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women by Gail M. Nomura and Shirley Hune
• Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Congress, 1900-2017 by Albin Kowalewski
• The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature by Rachel Lee
• Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 by Gordon Chang, Mark Dean Johnson, Paul Karlstrom, and Sharon Spain
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Web Resources

To learn more about AANHPI Heritage Month, visit these websites.

• Library of Congress
• NPR
• National Archives
• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
• National Park Service
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services