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    Book Cover for Hapa Girl

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    Multiracial Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans, Module 4
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  • The book cover for Redefining Realness shows Janet Mock in a peach dress with a serious expression. The city backdrop is blurred.

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    Book Cover for Redefining Realness

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  • The book cover for Speak Okinawa is white. Each letter in Speak Okinawa is multi-colored. Half of an Asian face is visible in the O of Okinawa.

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    Book Cover for Speak Okinawa

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  • The book cover for Crying in H Mart is red and black. Noodles dangle between two sets of chopsticks.

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    Book Cover for Crying in H Mart

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  • The book cover for Hapa Tales and Other Lies shows 2 pink Hawaiian flowers against a dark background.

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    Book Cover for Hapa Tales and Other Lies

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  • Book cover for Afakasi Woman shows a Samoan woman in a white dress against a colorful background of geometric patterns.

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    Book Cover for Afakasi Woman

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  • A poster shows a collection of memoir covers and quotes by multiracial authors. Hands with different skin tones holding books frame the poster.

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    Multiracial Author Memoirs Collage

    Multiracial authors such as Michelle Zauner, Sharon H. Chang, Janet Mock, May-lee Chai, Lani Wendt Young, and Elizabeth Miki Brina have had success sharing their experiences and personal stories through memoirs.

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  • Jet Li holds Aaliyah's wrist while she makes a fist for the 2000 film Romeo Must Die.

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    Romeo Must Die

    Actors Jet Li (left) and Aaliyah (right) in Romeo Must Die (2000), an adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy with a martial-arts twist. However, instead of featuring star-crossed lovers, the filmmakers replaced the characters’ romantic scene with one featuring a platonic hug.

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  • LeBron James casually dribbles a basketball with his arm around glamourous Gisele Bundchen for the cover of Vogue. James’ mouth is open mid-shout.

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    LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen Vogue Cover

    Basketball star LeBron James (left) and supermodel Gisele Bundchen (right) pose together on the cover of the April 2008 issue of Vogue. The image generated controversy, as many saw a perpetuation of harmful racial stereotypes featuring James, a Black man, and Bundchen, a white woman.

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  • Clip from film Rush Hour: Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan stand on a sidewalk with their hands in the air. Tucker dangles a firearm.

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    Rush Hour

    Chris Tucker (left) and Jackie Chan (right) in the 1998 film Rush Hour.

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  • Choi Soo Lee in a white shirt exits a vehicle driven by a woman and smiles over the car. Two men beside him also look in the same direction.

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    Chapter Overview: Free Chol Soo Lee: How a Lone Immigrant on Death Row Sparked a Movement

    Julie Ha

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    Module 1: Who is Chol Soo Lee?

    Julie Ha

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    Free Chol Soo Lee: How a Lone Immigrant on Death Row Sparked a Movement
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  • Aerial view of a maximum security cottage surrounded by barbed wire fencing. In the background is a city along a hill.

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    Module 2: Lost in America

    Julie Ha

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    Free Chol Soo Lee: How a Lone Immigrant on Death Row Sparked a Movement
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  • Individuals gather around a table cooking hot dogs and handing out t-shirts. Posters with Korean characters written on them are hung on the table.

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    Module 3: It Takes One Person

    Julie Ha

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    Free Chol Soo Lee: How a Lone Immigrant on Death Row Sparked a Movement
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  • Korean American Jay Kun Yoo in suit stands to the right and speaks to protestors holding signs of Korean and Free Chol Soo Lee messages.

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    Module 4: ‘Blue Jeans and Chima Jeogori Getting Together’

    Julie Ha

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    Free Chol Soo Lee: How a Lone Immigrant on Death Row Sparked a Movement
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  • Black and white portrait of Chol Soo Lee in a San Quentin Prison uniform, looking through a window with an intense, pained expression.

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    Module 5: Silent Pleas

    Julie Ha

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    Free Chol Soo Lee: How a Lone Immigrant on Death Row Sparked a Movement
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  • Vincent Chin, a Chinese American man wearing a printed tie and black suit jacket, crouches in front row of group photo with similarly dressed friends.

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    Chapter Overview: Fighting Anti-Asian Violence: Justice for Vincent Chin

    Helen Zia

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  • Vincent Chin, a Chinese American man wearing a printed tie and black suit jacket, crouches in front row of group photo with similarly dressed friends.

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    Module 1: Who Was Vincent Chin?

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    Fighting Anti-Asian Violence: Justice for Vincent Chin
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    Module 2: Economic Crises, the Politics of Blame, and 1980s Detroit

    Helen Zia

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    Fighting Anti-Asian Violence: Justice for Vincent Chin
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