Anti-Asian Racism: Myths, Stereotypes, and Catholic Social Teachings by Joseph Cheah An analysis to date of anti-Asian racism, told from a Catholic perspective. Cheah includes relevant Catholic Social Teaching documents, comparing and contrasting the Asian experience with anti-Black racism. The heart of the book is structured around three major stereotypes: perpetual foreigner, Yellow Peril, and the myth of the model minority.

Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism by Joe R. Feagin; Rosalind S. Chou An in-depth exploration of how Asian Americans experience and cope with everyday racism. The book depicts the "double consciousness" of many Asian Americans--experiencing racism but feeling the pressures to conform to popular images of their group as America's highly achieving "model minority."

Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States by Lon Kurashige This book complicates the exclusion story by examining the organized and well-funded opposition to discrimination that involved some of the most powerful public figures in American politics, business, religion, and academia.

Model Machines: A History of the Asian as Automaton by Long T. Bui A historical overview of the overlapping racialization of Asians and Asian Americans through their conflation with the robot-machine nexus. Bui puts forth the concept of the "model machine myth," which holds specific queries about personhood, citizenship, labor, and rights in the transnational making of Asian American.

Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy A 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US.

The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority (Online) by Ellen D. Wu Discusses the transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities" in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

Intersecting Realities: Race, Identity, and Culture in the Spiritual-Moral Life of Young Asian Americans by Hak Joon Lee (Editor); Ken Fong (Foreword by) Looks at the spiritual-moral struggles of Asian American young people by theologically addressing the issues that most intimately and immediately affect Asian American youths' sense of identity--God, race, family, sex, gender, friendship, money, vocation, the model minority myth, and community-- uniquely and consistently from the contexts of Asian American young adult life.

The Making of Asian America (Online) by Erika Lee An overarching history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject.

Disciplined by Race: Theological Ethics and the Problem of Asian American Identity by Ki Joo Choi Reveals the critical importance of Asian American experience for contemporary theological debates on race. The book challenges readers to move beyond conventional perceptions of Asian Americans as model minorities and to confront the ways in which Asian Americans are socially restrained by whiteness

Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans by David K. Yoo (Editor) A collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and religion and Asian American communities.

Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches by Russell Jeung Detailed surveys of over fifty Chinese and Japanese American congregations in the San Francisco Bay area show how symbolic racial identities structure Asian American congregations.

Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion Among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (Online) by Carolyn Chen (Editor); Russell Jeung (Editor) Draws on ethnography and in-depth interviews to examine the experiences of the new second generation: the children of Asian and Latino immigrants. Covering a diversity of second-generation religious communities including Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews, the contributors highlight the ways in which race, ethnicity, and religion intersect for new Americans.