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    The Little Bangladesh Neighborhood in Los Angeles

    Murals of prominent historic Bangladeshi leaders in Little Bangladesh, Los Angeles, California.

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 5
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  • Bangladeshi American Tanzila Ahmed wearing a polka dot dress kneels in front of hand-painted alponas on the sidewalk.

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    Tanzila Ahmed Posing with Hand-Painted Alponas

    Tanzila Ahmed, a political activist born and raised in Los Angeles, California, poses with hand-painted alponas (traditional Bengali folk art) in the neighborhood of Little Bangladesh in Los Angeles.

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 5
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  • Bangladeshi artist Tara Asgar wearing a long wig is seated under the spotlight with a microphone in hand and surrounded by people sitting in a circle.

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    Tara Asgar in Performance

    Tara Asgar during a performance in the US: “Coming to the US was a loss, and I had to start from zero, reshape my work.”

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 4
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  • Bangladeshi artist Tara Asgar sits on the lawn with one arm propped to the side and the other arm resting on her leg while wearing a tie dye saree.

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    Portrait of Tara Asgar

    Tara Asgar, a Bangladeshi artist, is deeply influenced by her connections to African American and Latinx communities in New York.

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 4
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  • Bangladeshi Chaumtoli Huq on the left speaks with ten female garment workers and organizers who are wearing salwar kameez inside small storage room.

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    Chaumtoli Huq with Garment Workers and Organizers

    Huq (left) with women workers and organizers in the apparel industry in Bangladesh, filming for her documentary Sramik Awaaz: Workers Voices (2017).

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 4
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  • Seven Bangladeshi American female organizers pose wearing saree on a sidewalk in New York, surrounded by brick buildings and parked cars.

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    Shahana K. Hanif and Sharmin Hossain with Organizers

    Bangladeshi American organizers in New York, including Huq (far right), alongside NYC Council member Shahana K. Hanif (third from right), and Sharmin Hossain of 18 Million Rising (far left).

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 4
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  • Bangladeshi Chaumtoli Huq with her husband and three daughters wearing winter coats at the train station.

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    Chaumtoli Huq and Family in New York City

    Chaumtoli Huq and her family moved in the early 1970s to the Bronx, New York, after the Bangladesh Liberation War.

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 4
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  • Bangladeshi American English professor and author Nadeem Zaman holds a stack of his books "The Inheritors" wearing glasses and a jacket inside a home.

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    Nadeem Zaman Holding a Stack of His Book The Inheritors

    Author Nadeem Zaman with his book, The Inheritors (2023). An English professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Zaman arrived in the US in 1991 at fifteen. The legacy of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War features heavily in his writing.

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 3
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  • Cover of Bangladeshi American Diruba Ahmed's book "Bring Now The Angels" featuring a statue of a worn-down, headless angel.

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    Front Cover of Bring Now the Angels

    Author Dilruba Ahmed’s Bring Now The Angels (2020). This book of poetry moves away from exploring notions of identity and belonging and instead deals with themes of grief and forgiveness.

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 3
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  • Bangladeshi American author Diruba Ahmed uses one hand to take off her glasses while holding a pen and the other hand to keep a book open on a table.

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    Headshot of Dilruba Ahmed

    Bangladeshi American author and poet, Dilruba Ahmed, at a bookstore reading. Her writings defy stereotypical representations of the exoticized Bengali and non-Western woman, emphasizing identity as fluid and multi-dimensional.

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    Chapter Overview: Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers

    Lauren Daus, Catherine De Guzman, Rudy Guevarra Jr., Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, Mark Pulliodo, Robyn Rodriguez, Gayle Romasanta, Stacey Salinas, and Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales

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    Module 1: Overview: Labor and Activism of Filipino Farmworkers

    Rudy Guevarra Jr., Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, and Lauren Daus

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  • Larry Itliong, United Farm Workers Organizing Committee Assistant Director speaking at unknown event.

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    Module 2: Larry Itliong

    Gayle Romasanta

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    Labor and Activism of Filipino Farmworkers
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  • Four picketers with their arms raised, wavie red flags. They stand just off a dirt road on a farm.

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    Module 3: Filipinas in the Filipino Farmworker Movement

    Stacy Salinas

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    Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers
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  • 1973 edition and 2014 edition of Carlos Bulosan's book 'America Is in the Heart.'

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    Module 4: The Life and Legacy of Carlos Bulosan

    Catherine De Guzman and Robyn Rodriguez

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    Labor and Activism of Filipino Farmworkers
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  • Filipino farmworkers pose for a group photo.

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    Module 5: Philip Vera Cruz

    Mark Pullido

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    Labor and Activism of Filipino Farmworkers
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  • Political cartoon with the metaphorical leg of California kicking a Chinese man out into the Pacific Ocean. Text above reads "The Chinese Must Go!"

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    Asian Exclusion: “Aliens Ineligible to Citizenship”

    Russell Jeung

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  • An identification photo of Wong Kim Ark, a Chinese man, from an Immigration Service affidavit, dressed in traditional Chinese clothing.

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    Module 1: Overview

    Russell Jeung

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    Asian Exclusion: “Aliens Ineligible to Citizenship”
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  • Political cartoon with the metaphorical leg of California kicking a Chinese man out into the Pacific Ocean. Text above reads "The Chinese Must Go!"

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    Module 2: Restriction and Exclusion from Migration

    Russell Jeung

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    Asian Exclusion: “Aliens Ineligible to Citizenship”
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