Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
May is recognized as Asian-Pacifican American Heritage Month by the Library of Congress, 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. These organizations join together in paying tribute to the generations of Asian and Pacific Islanders who have enriched America’s history and are instrumental in its future success. "The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants."
Following are books by Asian-Pacific Americans and/or featuring Asian-Pacific American themes of heritage and the immigrant experience:
- When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
- Cebu by Peter Bacho
- Dangerous Music by Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
- The Gangster of Love by Jessica Hagedorn
- El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal
- Noli Me Tángere by Jose Rizal
- Executive Order 9066 by David Takami
- Seattle's International District: The Making of a Pan-Asian American Community by Doug Chin
- The Dahlai Lama's Little Book of Wisdom by His Holiness Dalai Lama
- Dream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorn
CCS/CHS Reads
presented by
MULTI-RACIAL ACTION TEAM
Join us for a quarterly exploration of how culture and race shape our communities and the world.
The second quarter book selection is Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Washington State author Jamie Ford. This is a historical novel about about the love and friendship between a Chinese boy, Henry, and a Japanese girl, Keiko, during the Japanese internment in World War II. The story is begins in Seattle's International District, known at that time as Chinatown and Nihonmachi, and moves on to Camp Harmony (the present-day fairgrounds in Puyallup) and Minidoka (Idaho), internment camps where Japanese-Americans were forcibly held during the duration of the war.
Watch your email for more information about brown bag lunches held throughout our agency where everyone who's interested can gather and share their insights and discoveries as we take a look at various cultures and ethnic issues.
If you're interesting in hosting a brown bag lunch, or would like more information, please contact Margaret Boddie (206-328-6840). Click here to download the flyer to post in your office and help spread the word!
CCS/CHS Reads
Presented by the Multi-racial Action Team
Explore Our World Through Books
Join us for a quarterly exploration of how culture and race shape our communities and the world. We'll select one fiction or nonfiction title quarterly and host brown bag lunches throughout our agency where everyone who's interested can gather and share their insights and discoveries.
Our first book, selected in honor of Black History Month, is Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama.
If you have any questions, or would like to share suggestions for future book selections, please click here to contact Margaret Boddie.
Here are some other books that explore diversity:
A little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Buffy Sainte-Marie
Daughters Are Forever by Lee Maracle
Daughters of the Earth by Carolyn Niethammer
Dream Jungle by Jessica Hagedorm
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
Extraordinary Acts of Native Life on the West Coast by Kathryn Bridge
Honolulu by Alan Brennert
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
I know why the caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Native Son by Richard Wright
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family by Pauli Murray
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit by Leslie Marmon Silko
Please help us spreak the news about CCS/CHS Reads by printing and posting our flyer througout your offices. Click here to download the flyer.
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May 2013 Diversity Calendar
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
Jewish-American Heritage Month
National Better Hearing and Speech Month
National Mental Health Month
National Older Americans Month
Women's Health Care Month
1 - May Day
2 - National Day of Prayer (United States)
5 - Cinco de Mayo (Mexico)
6-12 - Deaf Awareness Week
6 - May Day Bank Holiday (United Kingdom)
9 - Ascension Day (Christian)
9 - Victory Day (Russia)
12 - Mother's Day (United States)
15 - Shavuot* (Jewish)
18 - Isreal's Independence Day (Yom Ha'Atzma'Ut)
19 - Armed Forces Day
19 - Malcolm X's Birthday (African-American, United States)
23 - Declaration of the Bab (Baha'i)
27 - Memorial Day (observed)
29 - Ascension of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i)
CS/CHS Employee Pledge
CCS is committed to making our services, our agencies and our communities free of the divisive and dehumanizing ravages of racism. To live out this commitment every employee is expected to pledge the following:
I will not tolerate attitudes, behaviors, or statements that alienate, offend or injure any person associated with CCS because of their racial or ethnic origin;
I will enable and support all efforts to become aware of and eliminate racism and racist behaviors within CCS and the broader community;
I will take exceptional steps to identify and root out such biases, especially where there appear to be long-standing, institutional patterns of unacceptable behavior or lack of performance.
CCS is committed to employing staff that reflect the diversity of the regional population. Professional Ethics, Mission orientation and Cultural Competency trainings are required of all employees to assist the organization in meeting its commitments in this arena.
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