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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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  • Crowd of people in outdoor gathering. People hold signs calling for healing between the Korean and African American community.

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    Module 4: Post-1965 Korean America and 1992 Los Angeles

    Jane Hong

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    Korean Americans
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    Module 5: Korean Americans and Hallyu since 2000

    Jane Hong

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    Korean Americans
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  • Street life of Ross Alley in San Francisco's Chinatown depicts Chinese men with queue hairstyle, wearing hats, and shanku - shirts and trousers.

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    Module 1: Overview

    Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton

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    Chinese Americans and the Making of American History
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  • A photograph of a three white miners to the left of the sluice box and four Chinese miners to the right of the sluice box.

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    Module 2: Chinese Immigration and Labor from the Gold Rush to the Golden Spike, 1849-1869

    Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton

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    Chinese Americans and the Making of American History
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    Module 3: Chinese American Community Formation: The First Generation

    Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton

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    Chinese Americans and the Making of American History
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  • Two white men and a Chinese man in suits are seated at the table processing immigration papers as a group of Chinese women crowd around them.

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    Module 4: Living in the Era of Chinese Exclusion

    Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton

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    Chinese Americans and the Making of American History
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  • Portrait of Anna May Wong wearing black tophat and holding a glass.

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    Module 5: Becoming Chinese American: The Second Generation

    Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton

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    Chinese Americans and the Making of American History
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  • A Chinese Press ad titled "Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act" shows image of USA and China shaking hands.

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    Module 6: World War II and the Cold War to 1965

    Cecilia M. Tsu, Tamara Venit-Shelton

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    Module 7: Chinese America Today

    Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton

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    Chinese Americans and the Making of American History
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