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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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Racist US media representation
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, US media representations of the Philippines, Hawaiʻi, “Porto” Rico, and Cuba crudely depicted them as uncivilized children in Uncle Sam’s classroom.
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Arrest of Chinese man, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1897
This 1897 film shows the arrest of a Chinese man in San Francisco’s Chinatown, watched by a crowd of onlookers.
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Ticket for the Workingmen’s Party of California, 1879
An 1879 regular ticket for the Workingmen’s Party of California, which ran on the slogan, “The Chinese must go!”
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Edward Said (1935-2003), Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
Edward Said (1935-2003) was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. In Orientalism, Said argued that Orientalist writings and ideologies portrayed the West as being culturally superior, while people of Eastern countries are seen as inferior and subordinate.
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Student delegates at Korean National Congress, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1919
Student delegates at the Korean National Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1919. While many Asian immigrant communities were dominated by men, Korean American anti-colonial activism often included women at the forefront.
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San Francisco offices of Sinhan Minbo, ca.1911
The San Francisco offices of Sinhan Minbo, a Korean American newspaper, circa 1911. The medium of print was a crucial tool for immigrant communities in advocating for the independence of their homelands.
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The Ghadar Journal in Punjabi, 1914
The Ghadar Journal in Urdu (left) and in Punjabi (right), from 1914. The newspaper of the Ghadar party, circulated amongst its members throughout North America and elsewhere, called for the immediate and armed overthrow of British rule in India.
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The Ghadar Journal in Urdu, 1914
The Ghadar Journal in Urdu (left) and in Punjabi (right), from 1914. The newspaper of the Ghadar party, circulated amongst its members throughout North America and elsewhere, called for the immediate and armed overthrow of British rule in India.
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Pamphlet from Ghadar Party, 1916
A 1916 pamphlet from the San Francisco-based Ghadar Party with editorials on discrimination against South Asian (“Hindu”) immigrants in America, due to British colonial influence.
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Lala Har Dayal, 1916
Taraknath Das (left, in 1937) and Lala Har Dayal (right, in 1916) were Indian expatriates living in the US and leaders of the Ghadar Party, which advocated for India to be freed from British colonial rule through armed insurrection.
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Module 5: Storytelling as Resistance: Cultural Expression
Davorn Sisavath
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Laotian Americans
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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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Module 2: Sons and Daughters of Guam Club
Jesi Lujan Bennett
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Module 4: CHamoru Cultural Festival
Jesi Lujan Bennett
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Module 5: Sustained Connection to the Mariana Islands
Jesi Lujan Bennett
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Chapter Overview: Youth Organizing: Building Multiracial Solidarities
Veronica Terriquez and May Lin
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Module 1: Overview
Veronica Terriquez and May Lin
