Book Recommendations
Interested in learning more? AACC recommends adding the following books to your library.
Asian American identity, theology, stories, and history:
Grace Lee Boggs. The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Carlos Bulosan. Common Ground: Reimagining American History
Peter Cha, Steve Kang, and Helen Lee. Growing Healthy Asian American Churches
Iris Chang. The Chinese in America
Ki Joo Choi. Disciplined by Race
Hyun Kyung Chung. Struggle to Be the Sun Again: Introducing Asian Women's Theology
Nicole Chung. All You Can Ever Know
Diane C. Fujino. Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama
Cathy Park Hong. Minor Feelings
Jane Hong. Opening the Gates to Asia
Grace Ji-Sun Kim. Embracing the Other: The Transformative Spirit of Love
Grace Ji-Sun Kim. Invisible: Theology and the Experience of Asian American Women
Matthew D. Kim. Finding Our Voice: A Vision for Asian North American Preaching
Maxine Hong Kingston. China Men
Chang-Rae Lee. Native Speaker
Daniel Lee. Doing Asian American Theology
Erika Lee. America for Americans
Erika Lee. At America’s Gates
Erika Lee. The Making of Asian America: A History
Hak Joon Lee and Ken Fong. Intersecting Realities
Sang Hyun Lee. From a Liminal Place: An Asian American Theology
Daryl J. Maeda. Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America
Mae Ngai. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
Mae Ngai. The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America
John Okada. No No Boy
Gary Okihiro. American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders
Gary Okihiro. Common Ground: Reimagining American History
Gary Okihiro. Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture
Gary Okihiro. Third World Studies
M. Sydney Park, Soong-Chan Rah, & Al Tizon. Honoring the Generations: Learning with Asian North American Congregations
Misa Sugiura. This Time Will Be Different
Ronald Takaki. A Different Mirror
Ronald Takaki. A Larger Memory
Ronald Takaki. Strangers from a Different Shore
Jonathan Y. Tan. Introducing Asian American Theologies
Nikki Toyama and Tracey Gee. More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership and Faith
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh-Vo, and K. Scott Wong. Keywords for Asian American Studies
Ellen D. Wu. The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
Frank Wu. Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
Karen Tei Yamashita. I Hotel
Gene Luen Yang. American Born Chinese
Helen Zia. Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
Asian American Novels
Mia Alvar. In the Country
Frances Cha. If I Had Your Face
Eileen Chang. Love in a Fallen City
Te-Ping Chen. Land of Big Numbers
YZ Chin. Edge Case
Avni Doshi. Burnt Sugar
Alex Gilvarry. From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
Kazuo Ishiguro. Klara and the Sun
Jhumpa Lahiri. Whereabouts
Chang-Rae Lee. My Year Abroad
Min Jin Lee. Pachinko
Tao Lin. Taipei
Ken Liu. The Paper Menagerie
Mieko Kawakami. Heaven
Megha Majumdar. A Burning
Haruki Murakami. Norwegian Wood
Celeste Ng. Little Fires Everywhere
Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Sympathizer
Grace Talusan. The Body Papers
Amy Tan. Joy Luck Club
John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats. Yellow Peril!
Jia Tolentino. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Ocean Vuong. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong. Time is a Mother
Qian Julie Wang. Beautiful Country
Charles Yu. Interior Chinatown
Michelle Zauner. Crying in H Mart
C Pam Zhang. How Much of These Hills Is Gold
Racial Reconciliation, Justice, and Unity
W.E.B. Du Bois. The Souls of Black Folk
Eddie Glaude Jr. Begin Again
Ibram X. Kendi. How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi. Stamped From the Beginning
Martin Luther King Jr. Where Do We Go From Here?
Martin Luther King Jr. Why We Can’t Wait
Martin Luther King Jr. Strength To Love
Toni Morrison. The Origin of Others
Khalil Gibran Muhammad. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
Ijeoma Oluo. So You Want to Talk About Race
Richard Rothstein. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History
Bryan Stevenson. Just Mercy
Beverly Tatum. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting together in the cafeteria
Isabel Wilkerson. Caste.
Isabel Wilkerson. The Warmth Of Other Suns
Church
Conversations around faith and race are critical in our discipleship as pastors, leaders, adults, and children. Below are several resources that AACC recommends in order to begin and continue this important journey of learning to align ourselves with the principles and practices of the Kingdom of God. Please feel free to adapt some of the resources to your particular church or ministry context.
Christina Cleveland. Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart
Christina Edmonson & Chad Brennan. Faithful Anti-Racism
Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Michael O. Emerson, George Yancey, & Karen Chai Kim. United by Faith, The Multiracial Congregation As an Answer to the Problem of Race
Derwin Gray. How to Heal Our Racial Divide
Graham Hill and Grace Ji-Sun Kim. Healing Our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World
Alexander Jun. White Out: Understanding White Privilege and Dominance in the Modern Age
Kathy Khang. Raise Your Voice: Why We Stay Silent and How to Speak Up
Eric Law. The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb: A Spirituality for Leadership in a Multicultural Community
Jeff Liou & Robert Chao Romero. Christianity and Critical Race Theory
Esau McCaulley. Reading While Black
Latasha Morrison. Be the Bridge
Brenda Salter McNeil & Rick Richardson. The Heart of Racial Justice
Doug Serven. Heal Us, Emmanuel: A Call for Racial Reconciliation, Representation, and Unity in the Church
Nayan Shah. Title: Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown
Nico Slate. Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India
Christian Smith & Michael O. Emerson. Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
Jemar Tisby. Color of Compromise
Jemar Tisby. How to Fight Racism
Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes. I Bring the Voices of Our People
Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe & Bailey W. Jackson. New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development