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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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    Recipients of redress checks

    Issei women receiving redress checks and formal apologies from the government acknowledging that it was wrong to have incarcerated them and 120,000 other Japanese Americans during World War II.

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    Giving Testimony

    Hear 153 testimonies given to the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, highlighting injustices faced by Japanese Americans during WWII.

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    Noy Thrupkaew’s TED Talk on Trafficking

    Excerpt of a TED Talk by journalist Noy Thrupkaew, dispelling the common misconceptions about human trafficking.

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    Module 3: Building Communities

    Heidi Kim

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    Module 4: The Fight for Civil Rights

    Heidi Kim

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    Module 5: Literature and Identity

    Heidi Kim

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    Chapter Overview: Asian American and Pacific Islanders and the Media

    Lori Lopez

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    Overview

    Lori Lopez

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    Module 2: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Mainstream Media: A History

    Lori Lopez

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    Chapter Overview: New York Chinatown’s Immigrant Garment Workers: Women in Action, 1970 – 2001

    May Ying Chen and Rachel Bernstein

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    Module 1: New York Chinatown and the Garment Industry

    May Ying Chen and Rachel Bernstein

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    Module 2: The Immigrant Women

    May Ying Chen and Rachel Bernstein

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