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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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  • Yellow bumper sticker with words "Patsy Mink for President" in purple font. "Mink" is stylized in all caps at center of sticker.

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    Module 2: Opposition to the Vietnam War and US Presidential Campaign

    Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

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    Patsy Takemoto Mink: Fierce and Fearless
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  • Cartoon with Uncle Sam, a white man dressed in stars and stripes of U.S. flag, who looms over brown children wearing names of different countries.

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    Module 3: Environmental Justice, Settler Colonialism, and a Pacific Worldview

    Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

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    Patsy Takemoto Mink: Fierce and Fearless
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    Module 4: Title IX: The Patsy Takemoto Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act

    Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink

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    Patsy Takemoto Mink: Fierce and Fearless
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  • I-Hotel supporters link arms to form barricade outside hotel. Above them hangs a banner with partially obscured text reading "No Eviction!"

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    Chapter Overview: Asian American Activism

    Artnelson Concordia, Katherine H. Lee, May C. Fu, and Diane C. Fujino

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  • Black and white photo: Vicci Wong and two other girls sit on a curb while holding signs in support of Huey Newton. Other people with signs stand nearby.

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    Module 1: Overview of Asian American Activism

    Diane C. Fujino

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    Asian American Activism
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  • Woman carrying South Korean flag stands next to member of the National Guard following the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising.

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    Chapter Overview: Korean Americans

    Jane Hong and Kimberly McKee

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  • Two Korean women and child, dressed in traditional clothing, outside of San Francisco's Angel Island Immigration Station.

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    Module 1: Overview

    Jane Hong

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    Korean Americans
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  • Uniformed Korean American men stand in rows outside of building. Flags of the U.S. and South Korea are seen behind last row of men.

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    Module 2: Korean Americans during World War II and the Korean War

    Jane Hong

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    Korean Americans
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  • Six female graduates of St. Paul's Hospital nursing program pose in a formal black and white portrait, dressed in nurse's cap and uniform.

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    Chapter Overview: Filipinx American Histories

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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