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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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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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Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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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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Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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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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Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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America Is In The Heart
America Is In the Heart’s 1973 and 2014 editions
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Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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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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Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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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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Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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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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Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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Carlos Bulosan in front of door, approximately 1940s
Carlos Bulosan in front of door, ca. 1940
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Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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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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Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 4
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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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Labor & Activism of Filipino Farmworkers, Module 3
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Module 1: Overview
Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton
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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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Module 3: Chinese American Community Formation: The First Generation
Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton
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Module 4: Living in the Era of Chinese Exclusion
Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton
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Module 5: Becoming Chinese American: The Second Generation
Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton
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Module 7: Chinese America Today
Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit-Shelton
