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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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  • Advocates of Hawaiian independence, dressed in matching Kū I Ka Pono t-shirts, march down the street holding Hawaiian flags.

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    Module 5: Aloha ʻĀina: Pathways of Sovereignty and Independence

    Davianna Pōmaikaʻi McGregor

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    Kānaka ’Ōiwi: Indigenous Hawaiians
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  • Uniformed Fita Fita Guardsmen stand on the Naval station dock in Tutuila, Amerika Sāmoa, as they prepare lines for the coming USS Trenton warship.

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    Module 2: Friends or Foes: Making American Sāmoa

    Lana Lopesi

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    Samoans in the United States
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  • Samoan American Liz sits on the hood of a car while holding her baby. Her cousin Vaisola sits next to her and leans over to see the baby.

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    Module 3: Toloa or Eagle: Flights of Migration

    Lana Lopesi

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    Samoans in the United States
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    Module 4: Culture and Cheehoos: Samoan Diasporic Identities

    Lana Lopesi

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    Samoans in the United States
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  • Dressed casually, wrestlers Leati Joseph Anoaʻi, known as Roman Reigns (left), and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson (right) pose together at WrestleMania.

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    Module 5: The Samoan Dynasty: Samoans in Sports

    Lana Lopesi

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    Samoans in the United States
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    Module 6: Social Issues in the Diaspora and Youth Activism

    Lana Lopesi

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    Samoans in the United States
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  • Brick exterior of grocery store with market's name painted in white at the top of the building. Patrons sit and stand by benches near entrance.

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    Chapter Overview: Asian Americans in the United States South

    Heidi Kim

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  • A lithograph of Eng and Chang Bunker surrounded by idyllic scenes of family life, leisure, labor, and assimilation to the American lifestyle.

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    Module 1: Overview

    Heidi Kim

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    Asian Americans in the United States South
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  • Chinese Americans Edward Woo, wearing a t-shirt and pants, and Nancy Gee, wearing a dress, stand inside his grocery store, Eddie’s Lucky Leadway.

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    Module 2: Labor and Migration

    Heidi Kim

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    Asian Americans in the United States South
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