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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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Reverend Augustus W. Loomis
Reverend Augustus W. Loomis was a Presbyterian missionary who sought to convert Chinese migrants in San Francisco to Christianity throughout the 1860s and 1870s. Prior to his work in California, Loomis worked at an Indian boarding school for Creek children. Indian boarding schools were abusive institutions that abducted Indigenous children from their homes and imprisoned them in residential complexes where students were forcibly “civilized” into white Christianity. Hundreds of Native children died in boarding schools, where they were subjected to attempted cultural genocide, unliveable conditions, and immense violence at the hands of their “caretakers.”
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Mary McGladery
Mary McGladery, assistant matron, Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society, who raised Mary Tape, 1869-1875.
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Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society
The Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society home for abandoned children (c. 1860), where Mary Tape was the only Chinese child resident.
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Portrait of Joseph and Mary Tape
Portrait of the Tapes in the early 1930s.
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Mary, Mamie and Frank Tape, 1895
Sisters Mamie (left), Emily (right), and Gertrude play together in Berkeley, circa 1895.
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Chinese in Our Schools
This article from the Daily Alta announces the California Superior Court’s verdict on the Tape v. Hurley case and advocates for the creation of laws to protect white students from the “danger” of Chinese integration.
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Tape Family Portrait in the late 1920s
Photo of the Tapes in the late 1920s. Standing from left to right: Gertrude, Frank, and Emily. Sitting: Mary, Mamie, and Joseph.
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Tape Family Portrait in 1884
Portrait of the Tape family, circa 1884. Featured from left to right: Joseph, Emily, Mamie, Frank, and Mary.
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Exclusion Act
The Exclusion Act (May 6, 1882) banned entry of Chinese migrant laborers into the United States. It was the first piece of significant legislation restricting migration into the United States and set precedent for the country’s ongoing discriminatory immigration policies.
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The Democratic Chinese Exclusion Bill Exclusion Poster
Poster “Hip! Hurrah! Chinese Excluded” by the Democratic County Central Committee celebrates the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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Module 4: Challenges: Pakistani Americans and the Aftermath of 9/11
Uzma Quraishi
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Pakistani Americans
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Chapter Overview: Where We Live: Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities
Thao Ha, Tarry Hum, ‘Inoke Hafoka, Louise Cainkar, and Zohra Saed
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Module 1: Vietnamese Americans in the Texas Gulf
Thao Ha
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Module 2: New Immigrant Communities of Queens, New York City
Tarry Hum
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Module 3: Tongan Community in Salt Lake City, Utah
ʻInoke Hafoka
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Chapter Overview: Asian American Popular Culture
Jeff Yang
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Module 1: An Introduction to Asian American Popular Culture
Jeff Yang
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Asian American Popular Culture
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Module 2: Asian Americans and the Moving Image, Part 1: Film and Television
Jeff Yang
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Asian American Popular Culture
