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All chapters of Foundations and Futures include lesson plans and curricular tools that are designed for high school students and grounded in ethnic studies pedagogy. Feel free to search our repository of primary sources and material that helps bring Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and experiences into the classroom.
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Carved wood panel from Yogyakarta
Growing up in Indonesia, Maya was surrounded by art through her mother’s work with artisans. This carved wood panel from Yogyakarta, artist unknown, belonged to her mother as part of her microfinance projects. It is now in Maya’s personal collection. (Source: Maya Soetoro Collection)
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Indonesian phrase: gotong royong
Watch Maya discuss one of her favorite Indonesian phrases: gotong royong.
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Maya discusses living within diverse cultures and faiths
Watch Maya discuss living within diverse cultures and faiths.
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Taman Sari’s ruins
As a child in the 1970s, Maya played in the Taman Sari’s ruins. This photograph of the Water Castle was taken in a much earlier time, in 1910 during the Dutch colonial era.
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Video Maya on her childhood in Indonesia and feeling safe in “collective care”
Watch Maya discuss her childhood in Indonesia and the safety of “collective care.”
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Map of Asia Indonesia
Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world by population. The physical span of the archipelago is roughly equivalent to the length of the United States.
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Maya Soetoro and Family
Maya as a baby with her family, ca. 1970. From left to right: Lolo Soetoro (Maya’s father), Ann (her mother), Maya (on her mother’s lap), and Barack Obama (her older brother).
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Ann holding Maya as a newborn
Ann holding Maya as a newborn. They stand next to Soetoro’s grandmother, Djoeminah, whom Maya knew as Eyang Supoyo, ca. 1970.
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Ann Dunham Soetoro and Lolo Soetoro
Ann Dunham Soetoro (left) and Lolo Soetoro at the East-West Center, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where they originally met as graduate students. This picture likely was taken during a trip back to Hawaiʻi in 1972.
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Maya Soetoro Introduction
A brief introduction to Maya Soetoro
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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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Module 2: Lost in America
Julie Ha
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Module 3: It Takes One Person
Julie Ha
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Module 4: ‘Blue Jeans and Chima Jeogori Getting Together’
Julie Ha
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Module 5: Silent Pleas
Julie Ha
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Chapter Overview: Fighting Anti-Asian Violence: Justice for Vincent Chin
Helen Zia
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Module 1: Who Was Vincent Chin?
Helen Zia
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Module 2: Economic Crises, the Politics of Blame, and 1980s Detroit
Helen Zia
