LibGuides: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month: NJ Asian Pacific American History

Susan Shin Angulo (1970 - Present)

In January 2020, Susan Shin Angulo was sworn in as Mayor of Cherry Hill. She’s the first Asian-American mayor in Cherry Hill and the first Korean-American female mayor in New Jersey history.

Aaron Yoo (1979-Present)

Korean-American Aaron Yoo was born in Dallas, Texas. He spent his childhood in Edison and East Brunswick, New Jersey. He is a graduate of East Brunswick High School, where he ran track and played cello. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in theatre in 2001. He is best known for his acting roles in Disturbia (2007), Friday the 13th (2009) and as Russel Kwon in The Tomorrow People (2013-2014).

Ailee (1989 - Present)

Born Amy Lee in Denver, Colarado; Ailee grew up in New Jersey. She attended Palisade Park High School and lived in Leonia. She moved to South Korea in 2010, where she passed an audition and became an artist for YMC Entertainment. Ailee received multiple Best New Artist Awards.

Places and spaces

Here are some places in located in or near New Jersey that are important to Asian Pacific American culture, history, state history and national history. Some sites are closed to the public and can only be viewed from outside.

Asian American Heritage Festival
The Asian American Heritage Festival is being held on Sept 20, 2020 at the NJ Convention and Exposition Center in Edison, NJ. The Festival will cater to the Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese, Filipino, Korean and Japanese groups who account for 95% of the Asian American population in the state.
Asian Arts Initiative
Asian Arts Initiative is a multi-disciplinary and community-based arts center in Philadelphia that advances racial equity and understanding, activating artists, youth, and their communities through creative practice and dialogue grounded in the diverse Asian American experience.
South Asian American Digital Archive
SAADA creates a more inclusive society by giving voice to South Asian Americans through documenting, preserving, and sharing stories that represent their unique and diverse experiences.
WWRU
WWRU is a Korean language AM radio station licensed to Jersey City, New Jersey, broadcasting to the New York metropolitan area on 1660 kHz AM. Established in 1995 as expanded band sister station of WJDM (1530 AM), the station's studios are located in Manhattan. At night, the signal can reportedly be heard as far away as the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and as North as Southern Ontario.

New Jersey Schools

In January 2022 - New Jersey Governor, Phil Murphy signed legislation to require K-12 schools to include Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month history in their schools' curriculums beginning in 2022-23 school year.

Source: https://nj.gov/governor/news/news/562022/approved/20220118c.shtml

Associations

Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey
APALA-NJ, founded in 1985 and incorporated in 1993, is the largest specialty bar association that collectively represents the interests of Asian and Pacific American lawyers in the State of New Jersey.
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC)
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC) advances social justice by engaging Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities through culturally relevant advocacy, research, and leadership development.

Websites with information

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage
The history of North America is shaped by the stories of immigrants from Asia and the Pacific and the native people of the Pacific Islands. While some of the earliest Asian immigrants arrived from China, Japan, India, and Korea, immigration reforms tied to U.S. civil rights legislation brought even more groups to the United States—such as Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Indonesians, the Hmong and other peoples from South and Central Asia. Discover these wide-ranging stories preserved and interpreted in our nation’s parks, trails, and historic sites.
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
This Web portal is a collaborative project of the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The contents of this site highlight only a small portion of the physical and digital holdings of the participating partners.
Discovering Chinese Heritage: Part 1
Discovering Chinese Heritage: Part 2
PBS: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month this May and every day with a special PBS collection of stories that explores the history, traditions and culture of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
Preserving Asian American History and Culture