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    Book Cover for Hapa Girl

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    Multiracial Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans, Module 4
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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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  • Black and white photo of a young Ruby Tape dressed in a hat and a fur scarf while holding a leather purse standing on sandy ground.

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    Module 5: A Modern Chinese American Woman

    Mae Ngai

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    The Tape Family and Chinese American Civil Rights
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  • Samoan American Laulauga Tausaga-Collins stands in the National Athletics Centre. She poses with her gold medal and the U.S. flag wrapped around her.

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    Chapter Overview: Samoans in the United States

    Lana Lopesi

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  • Sunrise on the beach of Ofu, American Sāmoa. Mountains are on the left with palm trees at the base and large rocks on the shore.

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    Module 1: Overview: Samoans in the United States

    Lana Lopesi

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    Samoans in the United States
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  • Mural on the side of Bridge West Academy depicts a girl dressed in the Bangladeshi flag with a Bengal tiger, Bengali script, Shaheed Minar and hills.

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    Chapter Overview: Bangladeshi Americans

    Nazli Kibria, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Fariba S. Alam, and Sharbari Ahmed

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  • A sign with concrete footings placed on a lawn that reads "Welcome to Banglatown". Images of a Bengali flag and an American flag are next to the text.

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    Module 1: Bangladeshi Migration and Settlement in the US

    Nazli Kibria, Elora Halim Chowdhury, Fariba S. Alam, and Sharbari Ahmed

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    Bangladeshi Americans
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  • Refugees carry their belongings while trekking across a dry riverbed in the Ganges Delta at Kushtia.

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    Module 2: Bangladeshi Americans and the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War

    Elora Halim Chowdhury, Fariba S. Alam, Nazli Kibria, Sharbari Ahmed

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    Bangladeshi Americans
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  • A Chinese man holds a carrying pole with two buckets on either end over his shoulders standing between a mountainside and piles of rubble.

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    Chapter Overview: Chinese Americans and the Making of American History

    Cecilia M. Tsu and Tamara Venit Shelton

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  • Magazine cover of Patsy Mink, a Japanese American woman wearing sleeveless dress. Mink poses holding a bill with U.S. Capitol Dome in background.

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    Patsy Takemoto Mink: Fierce and Fearless

    Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

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  • Cover page of an educational comic book on Patsy Takemoto Mink

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    Module 1: Overview

    Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

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    Patsy Takemoto Mink: Fierce and Fearless
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