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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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Fort Sill protest
Japanese American survivors of WWII concentration camps join forces to protest the detention of undocumented migrant children at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
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Redress Now for Japanese Latin Americans lobbying group
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Karen Korematsu, Holly Yasui, and Jay Hirabayashi
In 2017, President Trump issued an executive order banning people from several Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. Karen Korematsu, Holly Yasui, and Jay Hirabayashi, children of three men who filed lawsuits challenging the violation of their rights during World War II, submitted a legal brief to the US Supreme Court in a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s travel ban.
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George Bush Apology Letter
Japanese Americans who had been imprisoned during World War II received this formal apology from the US government.
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L.A. Commission hearing
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Van Troi Anti-Imperialist Youth Brigade
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The Americanization School
The Americanization School, sponsored by Japanese Ancestry Society.
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Wartime housing in Little Tokyo’s Bronzeville, Los Angeles, 1943
Little Tokyo in Los Angeles was dubbed “Bronzeville” during World War Two, as African American families and workers moved into the empty homes and businesses of the relocated Japanese American community. Interior view of makeshift housing for an African American family in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
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Japanese-Americans returning to Sacramento, California, United States after being released from Rohwer Center internment camp in McGehee, Arkansas, United States, 30 Jul 1945
Roaring into Sacramento Monday morning, July 30, a special train of seven cars brought some 450 Japanese American residents of California back to their homes after residence of over three years at the Rohwer Center of the War Relocation Authority, McGehee, Arkansas.
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Module 3: Colonialism, Racism, and Identity
Mae Ngai and Wena Teng
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Module 4: Decolonization and New Immigration
Mae Ngai and Wena Teng
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Module 5: Case Study: Indonesian Sailors During World War II
Greg Robinson and Jonathan Van Harmelen
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Module 2: Anti-Miscegenation Laws and the Emergence of Multiracial People
Nitasha Tamar Sharma
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Module 3: Interracial Marriage Patterns and Multiracial Demographics
Nitasha Tamar Sharma
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Module 4: Controlling Images and Self-Representation in Film and Media
Nitasha Tamar Sharma
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Module 5: Multiracial Identity Formation and Expression
Nitasha Tamar Sharma
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Module 3: Bangladeshi American Literature
Nazli Kibria, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Fariba S. Alam, and Sharbari Ahmed
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Bangladeshi Americans
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Module 4: Bangladeshi Americans and Political Activism
Elora Halim Chowdhury, Faiba S. Alam, Nazli Kibria, and Sharbari Ahmed
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Bangladeshi Americans
