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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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Gordon Hirabayashi and Bill Schmoe, 1941
Hirabayashi met the Schmoe family when Floyd Schmoe of the American Friends Service Committee supported Hirabayashi’s resistance to the curfew and exclusion laws for Japanese Americans. Schmoe worked actively to assist Japanese Americans who had been evacuated, and later traveled to Hiroshima to help survivors of the atomic bomb. In this photograph, Hirabayashi is pictured with Schmoe’s son, Bill.
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63 members of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee at a court hearing in Cheyenne, Wyo
Photograph of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee. Photograph titled: “63 members of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee at a court hearing in Cheyenne, Wyo., having been charged with resisting the draft.”
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Nisei students at Swarthmore
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Nisei farm workers in Montana
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The 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Original caption: Japanese-American troops climb into a truck as they prepare to move their bivouac area. 2nd Battalion, 442nd Combat Team, Chambois Sector. France
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Tule Lake jail
A jail was built at Tule Lake which was co-managed by the border guards and WRA wardens. The building still survies today.
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Returning Seattle Family’s Garage Vandalized
This family returned to their home in Seattle, Washington from a camp at Minidoka, Idaho to find their garage vandalized.
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Riot at Manzanar headline
Walter Millsap was from 1916 to 1919 an active member of the utopian Llano colony, a socialist community which moved from its original location in California to Louisiana in 1917. Millsap was trustee of United Co-Operative Industries and head of the Llano Co-Operative Association.
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1944 league baseball game at the Tule Lake Segregation Center
The 1944 league baseball season got underway at the Tule Lake Segregation Center on April 19. Project Director Ray R. Best tossed out the first ball. Nearly half of the 17,000 residents of the center were present for the opening game
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The Down Beats
Photograph of the Tule Lake Down Beats. Woodie Ichihashi is identified as the leader and Gordon Chang is identified from the Bancroft Library. No negative is with the file, note included that the negative was from Chang Gordon. Photograph is of the group playing for people, the crowd is visible on the left side. Group has 8 visible members: 4 in the front row and 4 in the back row. Group is directed by Woodie Ichihashi.
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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
