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Asian American and Pacific Islander studies resources for the classroom
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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Herman and Emily Lowe
Herman Lowe, Mamie’s husband, with their daughter, Emily, circa 1912.
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Tape Family Postcard
Mamie (right) with her children, Emily and Harold, and her sister, Emily, pose for a tourist postcard in Portland, circa 1912.
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Frank Tape at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Frank at his father’s office at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company wharf in the late 1890s.
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Mary, Mamie, and Frank Tape, 1890s
Mary, Mamie, and Frank Tape in the 1890.
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Russell Street House
The Tape home at 2123 Russell Street, Berkeley, circa 1895. Photograph by Mary Tape.
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Gertrude Tape and Friend
Gertrude Tape (left) and an unidentified girl on Clay Avenue, behind the Chinese Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, 1894.
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Gertrude Tape
Portrait of Gertrude Ella Tape in the early 1890s.
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“What a Chinese Girl Did”
An article profiling the “accomplishments” of the Tape Family featured in The Morning Call, circa 1892.
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Joseph Tape Hunting
Joseph Tape with his hunting rifle and bird dogs, circa 1880.
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Joseph Express Office
Photo of the Dupont and Sacramento streets (heart of the Chinese quarter) in San Francisco, circa 1895. Joseph Tape’s express office is in the second building on the left, with the horse and wagon in front.
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Module 3: To Do Something or Nothing: The Decision to Take Action
Helen Zia
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Module 4: Building a Pan-Asian American Civil Rights Movement
Helen Zia
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Module 5: The Continued Impact and Legacy of Vincent Chin’s Story
Helen Zia
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Japanese Americans
Brian Niiya and Kristen Hayashi
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Module 1: Still Here After Five Generations and Counting
Brian Niiya and Kristen Hayashi
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Japanese Americans
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Module 2: Building Homes and Community in the Shadow of Two Empires (1885-1941)
Brian Niiya and Kristen Hayashi
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Japanese Americans
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Module 3: Looking Like the Enemy (1942-1945)
Brian Niiya and Kristen Hayashi
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Japanese Americans
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Module 4: From Pariahs to “Model Minorities”
Brian Niiya and Kristen Hayashi
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Japanese Americans
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Module 5: Balancing Past and Present (1970s to the present)
Brian Niiya and Kristen Hayashi
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Japanese Americans
