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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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Kimiko Kitagaki Waiting for a Bus
Young Kimiko Kitagaki waits in Oakland for a bus to transport her to a government camp. Like all other Japanese Americans, the Kitagaki family attached tags with their names and government-assigned family numbers to their suitcases. They tied the same tags to the clothing they wore.
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Instructions to Japanese Americans Poster
Signs like this appeared in Japanese American communities along the West Coast in the spring of 1942 ordering them to leave their homes.
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American Concentration Camps
In this short video, Japanese Americans’ accounts of life in the camps contrast with the government’s depiction of them.
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FBI House Raid
FBI agents searched the homes of many Japanese American families, like this one, and the Yasui family in Hood River, Oregon.
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Hood River Community Welcome
Masuo Yasui led a successful effort to create a Japanese Community Hall in Hood River, Oregon, where local Issei held cultural events, holiday gatherings, and Japanese language classes for children.
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Signs Discriminating Against Japanese Americans
In the decades before World War II, Japanese Americans along the West Coast faced discrimination in their daily lives: Restaurants denied them service. Barbers refused to cut their hair. Landlords would not rent to them. This woman in Hollywood, California, made clear that Japanese Americans were unwelcome.
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Masuo Yasui Portrait
Masuo Yasui immigrated to the US from Japan when he was sixteen years old. He settled in Oregon’s Hood River Valley, where he became a successful farmer and businessman.
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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
