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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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    I Want the Wide American Earth

    Carlos Bulosan’s signed poem, “I Want the Wide American Earth,” as part of a fundraiser for Local 37 officers’ legal defense fund, who were facing deportation.

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    Freedom from Want

    In 1943, the Post commissioned four writers to craft an essay to accompany each of Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms paintings, which had quickly come to represent America’s moral imperative during World War II

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    On Becoming Filipino

    On Becoming Filipino: Selected Writings of Carlos Bulosan edited by E. San Juan Jr.

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    America Is In The Heart

    America Is In the Heart’s 1973 and 2014 editions

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    Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union Local 37

    Carlos Bulosan and Chris Mensalvas, former union leaders, stand alongside fellow workers in this photo.

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    Filipino Alaskeros

    Filipino salmon processing workers in Alaska, known as “Alaskeros,” who worked in Alaska in summer and then the “farm factories” of California and eastern Washington in other seasons.

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    Snapshots of agricultural laborers

    An anonymous Filipino man working to process fruit, circa 1930, illustrates the hard labor and low wages that many Filipino immigrants faced during this time in the United States.

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    Carlos Bulosan in front of door, approximately 1940s

    Carlos Bulosan in front of door, ca. 1940

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    Carlos Bulosan at writing desk, approximately 1950s

    Carlos Bulosan gained literary fame with the publication of his semi-autobiographical novel America Is in the Heart, which delves into the experiences of Filipino immigrants in the United States. Photo of Carlos Bulosan ca. 1955.

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    Filipino American UFW members

    As the United Farm Workers resumed strike activities against Delano’s table grape growers, Filipino American UFW members rejoined their union brothers and sisters on the picket lines. This photograph shows Filipino American UFW members on the picket line.

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    Module 3: Asian Americans and the Moving Image, Part 2: Media Activism, Community Advocacy, and New Hollywood

    Jeff Yang

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    Module 4: Asian Americans in Music, Part 1: Folk, Traditional, Jazz, and Classical

    Jeff Yang

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    Module 5: Asian Americans in Music, Part 2: Pop, Rock, and Hip Hop

    Jeff Yang

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    Module 6: Asian Americans in Sport and Competition, Part 1: Individual and Team Sport

    Jeff Yang

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    Module 7: Asian Americans in Sport and Competition, Part 2: International Play

    Jeff Yang

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    Chapter Overview: Pacific Islanders

    Keith L. Camacho and Lisa Uperesa

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    Module 1: Pacific Islanders Overview

    Keith L. Camacho and Lisa Uperesa

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    Module 2: Sacred Spaces

    Keith L. Camacho and Lisa Uperesa

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    Module 3: World War II

    Keith L. Camacho and Lisa Uperesa

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