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    Book Cover for Hapa Girl

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  • The book cover for Redefining Realness shows Janet Mock in a peach dress with a serious expression. The city backdrop is blurred.

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    Book Cover for Redefining Realness

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  • The book cover for Speak Okinawa is white. Each letter in Speak Okinawa is multi-colored. Half of an Asian face is visible in the O of Okinawa.

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    Book Cover for Speak Okinawa

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  • The book cover for Crying in H Mart is red and black. Noodles dangle between two sets of chopsticks.

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    Book Cover for Crying in H Mart

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  • The book cover for Hapa Tales and Other Lies shows 2 pink Hawaiian flowers against a dark background.

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    Book Cover for Hapa Tales and Other Lies

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  • Book cover for Afakasi Woman shows a Samoan woman in a white dress against a colorful background of geometric patterns.

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    Book Cover for Afakasi Woman

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  • A poster shows a collection of memoir covers and quotes by multiracial authors. Hands with different skin tones holding books frame the poster.

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    Multiracial Author Memoirs Collage

    Multiracial authors such as Michelle Zauner, Sharon H. Chang, Janet Mock, May-lee Chai, Lani Wendt Young, and Elizabeth Miki Brina have had success sharing their experiences and personal stories through memoirs.

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  • Jet Li holds Aaliyah's wrist while she makes a fist for the 2000 film Romeo Must Die.

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    Romeo Must Die

    Actors Jet Li (left) and Aaliyah (right) in Romeo Must Die (2000), an adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy with a martial-arts twist. However, instead of featuring star-crossed lovers, the filmmakers replaced the characters’ romantic scene with one featuring a platonic hug.

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  • LeBron James casually dribbles a basketball with his arm around glamourous Gisele Bundchen for the cover of Vogue. James’ mouth is open mid-shout.

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    LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen Vogue Cover

    Basketball star LeBron James (left) and supermodel Gisele Bundchen (right) pose together on the cover of the April 2008 issue of Vogue. The image generated controversy, as many saw a perpetuation of harmful racial stereotypes featuring James, a Black man, and Bundchen, a white woman.

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  • Clip from film Rush Hour: Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan stand on a sidewalk with their hands in the air. Tucker dangles a firearm.

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    Rush Hour

    Chris Tucker (left) and Jackie Chan (right) in the 1998 film Rush Hour.

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  • A Laotian family sits around a centerpiece filled with flowers, candles, offerings, and white cotton strings for a baci ceremony.

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    Module 4: Making Laos in America: Lanexang Village

    Davorn Sisavath

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    Laotian Americans
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  • Flyer for the play Refugee Nation featuring a drawing of a Lao woman with boxing gloves and a Lao man with a gun.

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    Module 5: Storytelling as Resistance: Cultural Expression

    Davorn Sisavath

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    Laotian Americans
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  • CHamoru weaver Tony Mantanona, dressed in a red patterned shirt and shorts, teaches weaving to people on either side of him.

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    Chapter Overview: CHamoru Movement and Diasporic Communities

    Jesi Lujan Bennett

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    Module 1: CHamoru Wayfinding Beyond the Mariana Islands

    Jesi Lujan Bennett

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  • Exterior of the Sons and Daughters of Guam Club. Palm trees line the building. Parking lot has tall, yellow letters spelling out "Håfa Adai."

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    Module 2: Sons and Daughters of Guam Club

    Jesi Lujan Bennett

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    CHamoru Movement and Diasporic Communities
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  • Flyer for the 2015 CCF with information on date and time at center. In each corner there are four different photos of people and a sakman.

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    Module 4: CHamoru Cultural Festival

    Jesi Lujan Bennett

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    CHamoru Movement and Diasporic Communities
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  • Thirteen CHamoru delegates pose for a picture in front of the flags at the United Nations' entrance. Together they hold up a large Guam flag.

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    Module 5: Sustained Connection to the Mariana Islands

    Jesi Lujan Bennett

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    CHamoru Movement and Diasporic Communities
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  • A young Asian American woman holds up a sign above her head at an outdoor rally. Behind her, other protestors hold signs that read "Dream."

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    Chapter Overview: Youth Organizing: Building Multiracial Solidarities

    Veronica Terriquez and May Lin

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  • Three Asian American men stand with their arms interlocked. Behind them a crowd of protestors hold up a large banner above them.

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    Module 1: Overview

    Veronica Terriquez and May Lin

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    Youth Organizing: Building Multiracial Solidarities
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