Resources and Partnerships
For many historic sites and resources in APIA communities in the US, the connection between a building and its significance to APIA heritage has been hard to find. So identifying these places, documenting their history, and making decisions about how to protect them is an important way to ensure that the history of APIAs is not entirely lost but remembered, reclaimed, and preserved. Preservation efforts require both partnerships and resources to help support and preserve our historic resources.



Board of Directors
Bill Watanabe (Chair)
Los Angeles, CA
Karen Kai (Vice Chair)
San Francisco, CA
Lisa Hasegawa (Secretary)
Los Angeles, CA
Munson A. Kwok, PhD (Treasurer)
Los Angeles, CA
Michelle Magalong (President)
Los Angeles, CA
Tejpaul Bainiwal
Stockton, CA
Grant Din
Oakland, CA
Kristin Hayashi, PhD
Los Angeles, CA
Sojin Kim, PhD
Washington, DC
Alan Kumamoto
Los Angeles, CA
Christina Park
Los Angeles, CA
Joseph Quinata
Hagatna, Guam
M. Rosalind Sagara
Riverside, CA
Jason Sarmiento
West Sacramento, CA
Our Partner Organzations
(partial list)
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Japanese American Community Leadership Council
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Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California
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National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
Resources
Check out these resources related to Asian and Pacific Islander heritage from the National Park Service:
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A Brief Glimpse: Asian American Pacific Islander National Historic Landmarks Theme Study
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Finding a Path Forward: Asian American Pacific Islander National Historic Landmarks Theme Study
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Asian Reflections on the American Landscape: Identifying and Interpreting Asian Heritage
State and local preservation agencies have also produced guiding documents on Asian and Pacific Islander Americans:
Recommended Readings
Learn more about Asian Pacific American Heritage through these publications.
Baluyut, Pearlie Rose S. 1998. A Glorious History, A Golden Legacy: The Making of a Filipino American Identity and Community. Ameriasia Journal 24(3): 193-216.
Benmayor, R. 2010. Contested Memories of Place: Representations of Salinas’ Chinatown. The Oral History Review 2010, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 225– 234
Burton, JF, MM Farrell, FB Lord, and RW Lord. 2002. Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
California Office of Historic Preservation. 1988. Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California, (Five Views contains valuable information on the experience of Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans in California.)
Chang, Sucheng Chan. 1991. Asian Americans: An Interpretive History (Immigrant Heritage of America Series). Woodbridge, CT: Twayne Publishers.
Chin. Doug. 2001. Seattle’s International District: The Making of a Pan-Asian American Community. Seattle, WA: International Examiner Press.
Cultural Resource Management Magazine:
- Preservation in the Pacific Basin. CRM. Volume 19, Number 3. Washington, DC: 1996.
- Approaches to Heritage: Hawai'ian and Pacific Perspectives on Preservation. CRM. Volume 19, Number 8. Washington, DC: 1996.
- Another View From Hawai'i. CRM. Volume 21, Number 8. Washington, DC: 1998- Pacific Preservation. CRM. Volume 24, Number 1. Washington, DC: 2001.
Durbow, Gail and Donna Graves. 2004. Sento at Sixth and Main” Preserving Landmarks of Japanese American History. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books.
Gupta-Carlson, Himanee. 2003.“Staking a Claim on American-ness: Hindu Temples in the United States” in Jane Iwamura and Paul Spickard, eds. Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America, Routledge, pp. 193-208.
Habal, Estella. 2007. San Francisco's International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Hou, J. 2004. Preserving for multiple publics: contesting views of urban conservation in Seattle’s international district. City & Time 1 (1): 3.
Jenks, Hillary. 2008. Urban space, ethnic community, and national belonging: the political landscape of memory in Little Tokyo. GeoJournal 73:231–244
Lin, Jan. 1998. Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
- 2008. Los Angeles Chinatown: Tourism, Gentrification, and the Rise of an Ethnic Growth Machine. Amerasia Journal 34:3 (2008): 110-126.
- 2011. The Power of Urban Ethnic Places: Cultural Heritage and Community Life (The Metropolis and Modern Life). New York: Routledge.
Mabalon, Dawn. 2006. “Losing Little Manila: Race and Redevelopment in Filipina/o Stockton, California” In Positively No Filipinos Allowed: Building Community and Discourse. Eds Antonio Tiongson, Jr., EV Gutierrez, and RV Gutierrez. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
- 2013. Little Manila is in the Heart. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
National Park Service:
- 1999. Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites.
- 2001. Report to the President, Japanese-American Internment Sites Preservation.
-2005. Asian Reflections on The American Landscape: Identifying and Interpreting Asian Heritage.
Park, K and Leong, R. 2008. How Do Asian Americans Create Places? From Background to Foreground. Amerasia Journal 34:3 (2008): vii-xiv.
Saito, LT. 2009. From “Blighted” to “Historic”: Race, Economic Development, and Historic Preservation in San Diego, California. Urban Affairs Review 45(2): 166- 187.
Salomon, LR. 1998.‘“No Evictions: We Won’t Move!’ The Struggle to Save the I- Hotel,” Roots of Justice: Stories of Organizing in Communities of Color. Berkeley: Chardon Press: 93-104.
Smith, Anita and KL Jones. 2008. Cultural Landscapes of the Pacific Islands: ICOMOS Thematic Study. United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
Tatsuno, Sheridan. 1971. The Political and Economic Effects of Urban Renewal on Ethnic Communities: A Case Study of San Francisco’s Japantown. Amerasia Journal 1:1 (33-51). Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press.
Washington State University - Vancouver. Chinese Americans in the Columbia River Basin: Historical Overview.