Asian Atlanta

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Featured Project

The Georgia Asian American Community Archives Initiative aims to identify, collect, preserve, and promote materials related to the history and experience of Asian Americans in Georgia.

Featured Digital Projects

GAACAI

The GAACAI is working to preserve and share the history and experiences of Asian Americans in Georgia, focusing currently on the Atlanta metro area. They aim to connect the Asian American community with local libraries, archives, and museums through community events, art and storytelling projects, and research and education.

National Equity Atlas
A Facebook-hosted web series to inspire Asian Americans in Atlanta to become more civically educated and engaged

Atlanta con Sabor Latino

“Atlanta con Sabor Latino” is a bilingual lifestyle series that highlights Latin culture and cuisine through the stories of Latinos living in Atlanta told through a 30-minute, 6-episode documentary.

Featured Articles

The yellow figment of East Asian American women: a case study of the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings

Lily Zhen-Ling Stewart, University of Louisville

Refugee Resurgens: Asian Immigration in Atlanta

Lois Carlisle,
Atlanta History Center

Immigrant entrepreneurs: Social and family networks and ethnic resources of Korean immigrants in the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area

Jin-Kyung Yoon, University of Georgia

Further Reading

  • Altaher, Arwa MA, Joyce F. Clapp, and Selima Sultana. “Residential settlement patterns among immigrants in Atlanta metropolitan area, Georgia.” Geographical Review 109, no. 3 (2019): 321-355.
  • Bronstein, Daniel. “Segregation, Exclusion, and the Chinese Communities in Georgia, 1880s-1940.” In Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South, edited by Jigna Desai and Khyati Y. Joshi, University of Illinois Press, 2013: 107–130. https://doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037832.003.0005.
  • Clayton, Obie, Cynthia Hewitt, and Gregory Hall. “Atlanta and’The Dream’: Race, Ethnicity, and Recent Demographic and Socioeconomic Trends.” Past Trends and Future Prospects of the American City: The Dynamics of Atlanta (2009): 219-248
  • Joshi, Khyati Y. “Standing Up and Speaking Out: Hindu Americans and Christian Normativity in Metro Atlanta.” Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South (2013): 190-215.
    Olsson, Tore C. “Your Dekalb Farmers Market: Food and Ethnicity in Atlanta.” Southern Cultures 13, no. 4 (2007): 45–58. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26391731. 
  • Ramiro, Caitlin. “After Atlanta: Revisiting the Legal System’s Deadly Stereotypes of Asian American Women.” Asian Am. LJ 29 (2022): 90. 
  • Walcott, Susan M. 2002. “Overlapping Ethnicities and Negotiated Space: Atlanta’s Buford Highway.” Journal of Cultural Geography 20 (1): 51–75. doi:10.1080/08873630209478281
  • Yoo, Jin-Kyung. “Utilization of social networks for immigrant entrepreneurship: A case study of Korean immigrants in the Atlanta area.” International Review of Sociology/Revue Internationale de Sociologie 10, no. 3 (2000): 347-363.
  • Zhang, Qian. “Residential segregation of Asian Americans in the Atlanta metropolitan area, 1990.” Southeastern Geographer 38, no. 2 (1998): 125-141.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/44371029