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  • Map of the Pacific Islands in Oceania. The map highlights the land masses of the smaller and larger island states.

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    Map of the Pacific Islands

    Map of the Pacific Islands, from the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Reproduced with permission.

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    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
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  • A Google Doodle of Bangladeshi American Fazlur Rahman Khan. He is dressed in a suit and tie with his hands raised looking at the John Hancock Center.

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    Google Doodle of Fazlur Rahman Khan

    Google celebrated what would have been Khan’s eighty-eighth birthday in 2017 with a Google Doodle that shows Chicago’s John Hancock Center, designed by Khan.

    Featured in:

    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 5
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  • Skyline view of the Sears Tower and other buildings in Chicago, Illinois on a clear and cloudless day.

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    Chicago Loop Skyline

    The iconic Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Fazlur Rahman Khan. Originally known as the Sears Tower, it was the tallest building in the world for over twenty-five years.

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 5
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  • Bangladeshi American Fazlur Khan in a suit and tie sits behind his office desk covered with piles of paper and holds his hands spread apart.

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    Fazlur Khan Sitting At His Desk

    Bangladeshi architect Fazlur Rahman Khan revolutionized the modern skyscraper with his use of tubular systems.

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 5
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  • Bangladeshi Americans gather outside on a snowy day behind a yellow ribbon in anticipation of the ceremonial unveiling of the Shaheed Minar replica.

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    Unveiling the Replica of the Shaheed Minar

    Bangladeshi Americans unveil a replica of the Shaheed Minar in Paterson, New Jersey, in 2015.

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 5
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  • Mural depicts a young girl wearing a saree on a boat floating in the water amongst lily pads as she handpicks another shapla for her collection.

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    Memory of Bangladesh Mural

    A young girl picks “shapla”, a water lily and the national flower of Bangladesh, in a mural by artist Zeehan Wazed in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York.

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 5
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  • Bangladeshi Americans gather on the street corner to celebrate the naming of Little Bangladesh. A man holds a Bangladeshi flag and an American flag.

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    Naming of Little Bangladesh in Brooklyn

    Bangladeshi Americans in 2022 celebrate the naming of the neighborhood “Little Bangladesh” in Brooklyn, New York.

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 5
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  • Bangladeshi Americans dressed in salwar kameez, kurta, and panjabi parade through the streets carrying colorful handmade masks during Pohela Boishakh.

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    Pohela Boishakh Parade

    Bangladeshi Americans celebrate Boishakh, the Bengali New Year, near Avenue C Plaza in Kensington, Brooklyn, New York.

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 5
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  • Headshot of Bangladeshi American Shahana Hanif wearing glasses and dressed in a wrap-style top, in front of an American flag and New York City flag.

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    Headshot of Shahana K. Hanif

    Shahana K. Hanif, a Bangladeshi American member of the New York City Council since 2022 for the 39th district, which covers neighborhoods in central Brooklyn including “Little Bangladesh.”

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 5
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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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    “Bangladesh, Coming To America” Mural

    A large mural titled “Bangladesh, Coming to America,” painted by artist Victor “MARKA27” Quiñonez in 2018, as part of the OneHamtramck mural project in Detroit, Michigan.

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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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