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100
The artist group, Silk Sonic, is made up of these two Black and Asian artists.
Who is Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak?
100
This 1997 Disney movie headlined a Black actress (Brandy Norwood) and AAPI actor (Paolo Montalban) as love interests.
What is Cinderella?
100
This adjective that describes when an ally stays silent when another person is facing a microaggression.
What is complicit?
Resources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/smarter-living/how-to-be-an-active-bystander-when-you-see-casual-racism.html
100
Which Black-American social reformer, abolitionist, and writer spoke up against restrictions of Chinese immigration in 1869?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
This American non-profit provides resources on reading materials and mutual aid funds to learn how to be more effective allies for the Black community.
What is Asian Americans for Black Lives?
Source: https://asianamericanadvocacyfund.org/asians-for-black-lives
200
This musical artist is half Filipino and half Black and was selected to be Belle in Beauty & the Beast.
Who is H.E.R.?
200
This fictional action movie with two main characters, one Asian detective and one Black detective, who are paired up to save a Chinese diplomat's daughter who was abducted. It was believed to be one of the first movies that used comedy to naturalize racial differences rather than to challenge racial stereotypes.
200
This myth creates a false stereotype that all Asian-Americans are wealthy and successful, discrediting the challenges of AAPI from lower socioeconomic statuses.
What is the Model Minority Myth?
Resources:
https://archive.advancingjustice-la.org/what-we-do/curriculum-lesson-plans/asian-americans-k-12-education-curriculum/episode-3-lesson-1
200
This Chinese-American activist organized alongside Black auto workers in Detroit to denounce World War II.
Who is Grace Lee Boggs?
200
This verb that distinguishes a passive ally to an active ally and bystander.
What is action?
300
The Japanese-American political activist, Yuri Kochiyama, supported and rallied alongside this Black human rights and political activist.
300
This Black and Asian star tennis player received criticism at the French Open when they opted out of press interviews for their mental health.
Who is Naomi Osaka?
300
The Asian Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s was inspired by this movement.
What is the Black Civil Rights Movement?
300
These riots created tension between the Black and Asian communities in the 1990s in California.
What are the LA Riots?
Resources for Learning:
- Advancing Justice LA: https://archive.advancingjustice-la.org/what-we-do/curriculum-lesson-plans/asian-americans-k-12-education-curriculum/episode-5-lesson-3
- The movie "Gook" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6057032/
300
This term is defined as unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with a common interest, often across lines of identity or political movement.
What is solidarity?
400
Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk, wrote a letter to this Black activist for support to end the war in Vietnam in 1965.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Resources: https://thichnhathanhfoundation.org/blog/2017/8/9/when-giants-meet
400
This movie, directed by Justin Chon and set in Los Angeles' Koreatown, is a story about the historic events that happen after the injustice following the Rodney King assault verdict.
What is Gook?
400
The post-colonial and imperialist framework that misguidedly associates safety with our colonizers and creates divides within the AAPI community.
What is colorism?
400
"Yellow Peril Supports Black Power" is a phrase that comes from this decade when students at San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley united to form the Third World Liberation Front.
What are the 1960s?
400
This book helps allies reflect on their understanding of race and discover ways to work toward an anti-racist future with a guided journal.
What is "How to be Anti-Racist" by Ibram X. Kendi?
500
This group was the first Asians to arrive to America and settled in Louisiana bayous. They escaped the Spanish Galleon masters, intermarried with Black & Cajun, and started shrimping businesses.
Who are the Manilamen?
Resources:
https://asianamericanedu.org/manilamen-first-asian-american-settlement.html
500
This book and documentary explores the history of Bengali Muslims moving to Harlem.
500
This term is used to create solidarity among a large assortment of nations, that have been historically subject to colonialism, exploitation, and marginalization, and are grouped together hemispherically.
What is The Global South?
500
During the International Hotel fight for tenant rights, this group linked arms with Filipino & Chinese activists protecting Asian elders who moved there.
Who are The Black Panthers?
500
This non-profit organization that offers allies free bystander intervention training to stop police-sponsored violence & anti-Black racist harassment.
