OiYan Poon

May 16, 2024 | newspub.live | Kaveh Akbar |OiYan Poon |Ocean Vuong |Michelle Zauner

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month! This month serves as a time to celebrate the culture, history, and achievements of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the nation. We hope you enjoy this list of a few of the NHPR staff’s favorite texts by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. If you have a favorite that didn’t make it onto this list, let us know! Our inbox, [email protected], is always open.

May 16, 2024 | nhpr.org | Kaveh Akbar |OiYan Poon |Ocean Vuong |Michelle Zauner |Sara Plourde

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month! This month serves as a time to celebrate the culture, history, and achievements of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the nation. We hope you enjoy this list of a few of the NHPR staff’s favorite texts by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. If you have a favorite that didn’t make it onto this list, let us know! Our inbox, [email protected], is always open.

Apr 30, 2024 | beacon.org | OiYan Poon

“A love letter, a call to action, an homage to a genealogy of resistance: Poon’s book is all of the above. This book is about the histories that Asian Americans carry with them as they forge their place—and future—in a country hell-bent on erasing them.

Apr 24, 2024 | semcoop.com | OiYan Poon |Seminary Co-Op

Dr. OiYan Poon discusses Asian American is Not a Color. She will be joined in conversation by Esther Yoon-Ji Kang. At the Co-opRSVP HERE (Please note that your RSVP is requested but not required.)About the Book: Before being struck down by the US Supreme Court in June 2023, affirmative action remained one of the few remaining policy tools to address racial inequalities, revealing the peculiar contours of racism and anti-racist strategies in America.