Advanced Search

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.  

Multimedia

# of # results

Filters

Resource type
Copyrights
Chapters
  • Unfurled sails from sakmans fill the horizon. Canoes sit on the calm ocean along with the sakmans. Two birds fly over the sakmans in a cloudy sky.

    Image

    Welcome Ceremony for Festival of Pacific Arts

    Boats ranging from sakmans to canoes during the traditional canoe welcome ceremony, signaling the commencement of the 12th Festival of Pacific Arts in Hagåtña, Guåhan (Guam) on May 22, 2016. The festival brings together delegations from across Oceania every four years.

    Featured in:

    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
    View multimedia

  • Video

    Amasai Jeke

    In this clip from UTOPIA Washington, a Queer and Trans Pacific Islander organization, Amasai Jeke identifies as vaka sa lewalewa, Fiji’s traditional third gender community. Ms. Jeke has served as Vice Chair of the Washington State LGBTQ Commission.

    Featured in:

    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
    View multimedia

  • Video

    Benetick Kabua Maddison’s UN Address

    In 2023 Benetick Kabua Maddison, Executive Director of the Marshallese Educational Initiative (MEI), a nonprofit based in Springdale, Arkansas, addressed the United Nations about the ongoing devastation of US nuclear detonations on the Marshall Islands while calling for the end of nuclear weapons.

    Featured in:

    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
    View multimedia
  • On top of a hill surrounded by palm trees and a forest, an American flag flies on a flagpole. At the base of the hill are people and construction.

    Image

    Hoisting of the American Flag

    On April 17, 1900, high chiefs from the Samoan islands of Tutuila and Aunuʻu signed a Deed of Cession, ceding the islands to the US.

    Featured in:

    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
    View multimedia
  • Drawing of bald eagle standing over the globe with its wingspan spanning from the Philippines to Puerto Rico. The year "1898" is labeled above.

    Image

    U.S. Expansion in 1898

    This Philadelphia Press political cartoon symbolizes US expansion in 1898 from “tip to tip”: Puerto Rico (right, identified as “Porto Rico”) to the Philippines (left, identified as “Manila”). A map of the US in 1798 (bottom right) presents a stark contrast in territorial size.

    Featured in:

    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
    View multimedia
  • Typed text of Public Law No. 103-150, wherein the U.S. apologizes to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi a hundred years earlier.

    Text

    Public Law No. 103-150 Page 5

    Click through to read all five pages of Public Law No. 103-150.

    Featured in:

    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
    View multimedia
  • Typed text of Public Law No. 103-150, wherein the U.S. apologizes to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi a hundred years earlier.

    Text

    Public Law No. 103-150 Page 4

    Click through to read all five pages of Public Law No. 103-150.

    Featured in:

    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
    View multimedia
  • Typed text of Public Law No. 103-150, wherein the U.S. apologizes to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi a hundred years earlier.

    Text

    Public Law No. 103-150 Page 3

    Click through to read all five pages of Public Law No. 103-150.

    Featured in:

    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
    View multimedia
  • Typed text of Public Law No. 103-150, wherein the U.S. apologizes to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi a hundred years earlier.

    Text

    Public Law No. 103-150 Page 2

    Click through to read all five pages of Public Law No. 103-150.

    Featured in:

    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
    View multimedia
  • Typed text of Public Law No. 103-150, wherein the U.S. apologizes to Native Hawaiians for overthrowing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi a hundred years earlier.

    Text

    Public Law No. 103-150 Page 1

    Click through to read all five pages of Public Law No. 103-150.

    Featured in:

    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
    View multimedia

Chapters

# of # results

Filters

  • Chinese American chef Joyce Chen holds chopsticks and samples her food while smiling. Multiple dishes of food are displayed on the table before her.

    Module

    Module 3: The Taste of Success

    Susie J. Pak

    Chapter:

    Asian American Pioneer Entrepreneurs: Realities of the American Dream
    View module
  • TIME magazine cover entitled, "Those Asian American Whiz Kids." Six Asian American students pose, sitting and standing, in classroom.

    Module

    Module 4: Asian Americans and the Different Realties of the American Dream

    Susie J. Pak

    Chapter:

    Asian American Pioneer Entrepreneurs: Realities of the American Dream
    View module

  • Chapter

    Chapter Overview: Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers’ Organizing

    Tracy Lai and Kim Geron

    View chapter
  • A group of male laborers, wearing protective clothing and hats in a field, cut sugarcane and place them in wooden carts pulled by mules.

    Module

    Module 1: Overview of Asian American Workers

    Tracy Lai and Kim Geron

    Chapter:

    Asian American Workers’ Organizing
    View module
  • Painting of a vibrant sugarcane plantation and a snaking river that leads to a mill. Workers harvest sugarcane and use oxen to pull wagons.

    Module

    Module 2: Hawaiian Plantation Workers Organize for Justice

    Tracy Lai and Kim Geron

    Chapter:

    Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers’ Organizing
    View module
  • Five female cannery workers, dressed in aprons, overalls, rubber boots, and bandanas, rest on a dock by the ocean and drink out of paper cups.

    Module

    Module 3: Alaska Cannery Workers

    Tracy Lai and Kim Geron

    Chapter:

    Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers’ Organizing
    View module
  • A Vietnamese female nail tech in an apron, face mask and latex gloves gives a customer a pedicure while seated in front of the customer and foot bath.

    Module

    Module 4: Nail Salon Workers: Ethnic Labor Migration

    Tracy Lai and Kim Geron

    Chapter:

    Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers’ Organizing
    View module
  • Union leaders, community organizers, and worker activists visit the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. The wall is topped with barbed wire and crosses.

    Module

    Module 5: Contemporary Asian American Labor Organizing

    Tracy Lai and Kim Geron

    Chapter:

    Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers’ Organizing
    View module
  • Set against gray fabric, this detailed story cloth shows Hmong people as they walk through lands with colorful buildings bisected by long river.

    Chapter

    Hmong Americans

    Ma Vang

    View chapter
Foundations and Futures Logo

The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.

© 2025 UCLA Asian American Studies Center

UCLA Institute of American Cultures Asian American Studies Center logo
Accessibility Tools
Reset All Accessibility Tools Reset All
Font Options
Text Resize
Line Height
Color Focus ButtonColor Overlay
Reading Focus ButtonReading Mask

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Accessibility
Translate