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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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Book Cover for Crying in H Mart
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Book Cover for Hapa Tales and Other Lies
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Book Cover for Afakasi Woman
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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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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 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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Rush Hour
Chris Tucker (left) and Jackie Chan (right) in the 1998 film Rush Hour.
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The “Oxford Fallacy” on TikTok
@maggie_zhou on TikTok explains the harm caused to Asian women by the “Oxford Study” fallacy.
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Pew Research Center Hawaiʻi Multiracial Data
Data from Pew Research Center shows that Hawaiʻi is the US state with the largest share of multiracial Americans by far. (Source: Pew Research Center)
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Operation Babylift
Vietnamese refugee children on an Operation Babylift flight to San Francisco on April 5, 1975. Over three thousand Vietnamese orphans were eventually transported to the US, including the multiracial children of American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers.
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Conquest and Division: War and Empire in Asia and the Pacific
Jean-Paul deGuzman and Misha Choudhry
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Conquest and Division: War and Empire in Asia and the Pacific
Jean-Paul deGuzman and Misha Choudhry
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Conquest and Division: War and Empire in Asia and the Pacific
Jean-Paul deGuzman and Misha Choudhry
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Conquest and Division: War and Empire in Asia and the Pacific
Jean-Paul deGuzman and Misha Choudhry
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Conquest and Division: War and Empire in Asia and the Pacific
Jean-Paul deGuzman and Misha Choudhry
