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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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  • Compilation of five ink drawings. Portraits of Charles E. Whitney and Lafcadio Hearn, outdoor oven, vegetables grown on stilt house porch, gamblers.

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    Module 1: If You Want to Know What We Are

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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  • Drawing of a woman and man in "Manilla Costumes": striped dress, shawl with umbrella and striped tunic, pants and straw hat, holding a chicken.

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    Module 2: Telling Stories with Objects

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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  • Exhibit photo of a homemade gun from the Philippines. Wood carved handle with a long, narrow barrel and attached strap.

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    Module 3: Filipino Homemade Rifle

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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  • Round military patch depicts a black volcano and a cloud of smoke with 3 yellow stars above against a yellow background.

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    Module 4: First Filipino Infantry Regiment Insignia

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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  • Round pin with an illustrated grape cluster in the center and A.W.O.C. above and N.F.W.A below.

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    Module 5: Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) and National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) Pin

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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  • Exhibit photo of a white cotton crescent-shaped nursing cap against a black background.

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    Module 6: Nurse’s Cap

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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  • Black jacket signed by Ruby Ibarra with lyrics from "Us" in gold lettering: "Island woman rise / walang makakatigil / BRWN WMN / Nothing on us"

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    Module 7: Ruby Ibarra’s Jacket

    Theodore S. Gonzalves

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    Filipinx American Histories
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  • Twelve people, standing in a row, carry four, large banners bearing the words "Decolonize Oceania, Free Guam" at outdoor festival in Guam.

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    Chapter Overview: Decolonization in the Pacific

    Kenneth Gofigan Kuper

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    Module 1: Overview

    Kenneth Gofigan Kuper

    Chapter:

    Decolonization in the Pacific
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