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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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    Filipino farmworker group photo near car

    Filipino farmworkers with their shared vehicle in 1943. Many Filipino farmworkers would take pictures in their best suits near their cars, despite their harsh working and living conditions, to show their families in the Philippines that they were doing well.

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    Cook house and living quarters, Filipino Strikers Camp, 1925

    A cook house and living quarter at the Filipino Strikers Camp in Kapaa, Kauai, 1925. Camp life was often without running water and electricity. Most of the upkeep of such living spaces were done by the Filipino farmworkers.

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    Our Pilipino Pioneers

    Filipino farmworkers gather for a group photograph in the cabbage fields of the Salinas River Valley, Salinas, California, ca. 1930.

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    Technical Sergeant Ruby Tape

    Technical Sergeant Ruby Tape of the Women’s Army Corps, World War II.

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    Ruby and Her Mom, Woo Que

    Ruby and her mother, Woo Que, in Marysville, California, circa 1931.

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    Ruby hunting

    Ruby and her quarry at the family lodge.

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    Frank Hunting

    Frank with his hunting dogs. Both he and Ruby hunted game at the family’s lodge near Ukiah, California during the 1920s.

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    Frank and Ruby Hunting with Joseph and Mary

    Frank (left), Mary, Joseph, and Ruby (right) pose after a day of hunting in the country, circa 1925.

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    Frank Tape and Ruby Kim

    Frank Tape poses with Ruby Kim. The two were married in 1921.

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    Ruby Tape

    Portrait of Ruby Tape, circa 1922.

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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: Maya Soetoro and the Making of Indonesian America

    Dorothy Fujita-Rony with Maya Soetoro

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    Module 1: Maya Soetoro: A Biographical Overview

    Dorothy Fujita-Rony with Maya Soetoro

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    Module 2: Indonesian American History

    Dorothy Fujita-Rony with Maya Soetoro

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