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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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Christmas pageant at Japanese Community Hall
Caption in Japanese at top of photograph: “Iwa Kurisumasu [Christmas celebration].” Caption by Homer Yasui: “A Christmas pageant which was performed by the Nisei members of the Hood River Japanese Methodist Church The girl second left looks like Mika Asai to mel and it might have been Jessie Iwatsuki holding the star on the stick. I don’t recognize the person playing Mary, but Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] is the first magi to her left. Next to him looks like…Taro Asai; next after him is George Tamura with the white headpiece and who is holding the white sheep. I don’t recognize the next two boys, but standing at the extreme right, holding the white shepherd’s crook is Bill Yamaki.”
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Nisei girls wearing kimono
Caption by Homer Yasui: “Yuka and Michi [Yasui] sitting, and wearing kimono. Michi is holding a cloth parasol. This is a very cute picture, and I’d guess that Yuka was around 3 years old then.”
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Matsuura Company Tailors
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Rafu Yossai Gakuen
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How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs
“How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs” in Time magazine, December 22, 1941 (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 25), p. 33. Photo: Tristan Bravinder, from the collection of the Santa Monica Public Library
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Japanese Relocation Order, 1942
Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland.
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Homer Yasui Interview Segment 9
Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor: “My heart sank down to my toes”
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Axis Spy Groups Smashed in Coast Raids; 300 Jailed
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Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center Dining Hall
Photograph shows Japanese Americans young women in waitress uniforms during forced removal of Japanese Americans to temporary concentration camps during World War II.
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Dr. James Goto examining a patient at the Manzanar Concentration camp
Dr. James Goto, a Los Angeles physician and surgeon, examines a patient in the emergency hospital at Manzanar concentration camp, California, April 2, 1942.
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Module 4: Building Community in “Little Saigon”
Thuy Vo Dang
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Vietnamese American Experiences
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Module 5: Politics and Remembrance in the Vietnamese American Community
Thuy Vo Dang
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Chapter Overview: The Tape Family and Chinese American Civil Rights
Mae Ngai
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Module 4: The Strange Career of a Chinese Interpreter
Mae Ngai
