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History is more than just text on a page; it is the photographs, voices, and artifacts of the people who lived it. The images and recordings featured across Foundations and Futures are part of a meticulously curated media repository. Whether you are building a lesson plan or investigating an artifact, you can use this database to trace the provenance of our media: discover who created an asset, the historical context behind it, and how it can be used to bring Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences into your classroom.
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Map of Micronesia
Map of Micronesia, a subregion in the Pacific Ocean that includes: Belau (Palau), Yap, Guåhan (Guam), and the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Marshall Islands, Nauru, and Kiribati. Not included in the map is Wake Island.
Featured in:
Micronesians in the United States, Module 1
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SAALT Members, Staff, and Colleagues
Members, staff, and colleagues of SAALT (South Asian Americans Leading Together), a panethnic South Asian American coalition that existed from 2000-2024.
Featured in:
Pakistani Americans, Module 5
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Pakistani American Political Action Committee Volunteers
Pakistani American volunteers from the Pakistani American Political Action Committee (PAKPAC) gather in 2020 to mobilize voting in Nevada.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 5
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IBN Sina Foundation
The staff at a clinic of the Ibn Sina Foundation, founded by Pakistani Americans. The Foundation provides medical, dental, diagnostic, specialty, mental health, and well-being programs throughout areas around Houston, Texas.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 5
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Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) Volunteers
Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) volunteers prepare food packages for free distribution through their food pantry. Pakistani Americans are often involved in charitable community efforts.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 5
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“Stages Of Getting ‘Randomly’ Selected”
A 2014 Buzzfeed article by Pakistani American reporter and podcaster Ahmed Ali Akbar reports on the difficulties of “flying while brown.”
Featured in:
Pakistani Americans, Module 4
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“We The People”
This 2016 “We the People” poster by artist Shepard Fairey from 2016, recasts Adhami’s photo as a symbol of protest.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 4
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“I Am America”
“I am America” photo by Ridwan Adhami, taken at Ground Zero in New York City 2007, in which a Muslim woman wears an American flag draped as a hijab.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 4
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King of the World Podcast
Shahjehan Khan’s podcast, King of the World (2021), is a seven-part series about a Pakistani American Muslim teenager who comes of age post-9/11 and tries to make sense of it twenty years later.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 4
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Protestor with “No More Mosque” Sign
A protestor in Temecula, California, opposing the building of mosques in 2010. Such anti-Muslim hostility can be described as Islamophobia or as anti-Muslim racism.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 4
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NYPD Muslim Surveillance Program
Student-activist Rabia Ahsan Tarar details how the effects and ramifications of the NYPD Muslim Surveillance Program were greatly detrimental to the lives of Pakistani Americans in the New York area for over a decade.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 4
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“A Burning Hate”
Drawings by Humberto Ramos and Sandra Hope for “A Burning Hate,” a DC Comics story in the graphic novel, 9/11: September 11th 2001, about the bullying of Pakistani American children by other American children following the 9/11 attacks.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 4
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The Chicago Tribune Reports on the Patriot Act
The Chicago Tribune reports on President George W. Bush signing the USA Patriot Act, just a few weeks after the events of 9/11. The Patriot Act became infamous for expanding surveillance and profiling of American Muslims, including Pakistani Americans.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 4
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President Bush Signs Patriot Act
President George W. Bush signed the USA Patriot Act into law on October 26, 2001. The act enabled the targeting, detention, and deportation of American Muslims, including Pakistani Americans.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 4
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The Islamic Center of Yuba City, California
This Muslim Guide image of the Islamic Center of Yuba City in California was built on acres of land owned by Pakistani American farmers. Just after its completion, it was burned down by arsonists in 1994. The mosque was rebuilt in 2000.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 3
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Breakdown of American Muslim Population
A breakdown of the American Muslim population (both native- and foreign-born). Source: Pew Research Center.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 3
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Pakistani American Community in Houston
In this clip from an AJ+ video, a visit to a commercial strip mall in the Hillcroft neighborhood of Houston, Texas highlights Pakistani American economic presence and consumer power to establish an ethnic economic enclave.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 3
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South Asian Clothing For Sale
A number of shalwar kameez and other South Asian clothing for sale at a store in Queens, New York.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 3
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2004 Pakistan Independence Day
Pakistani Americans in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York, celebrate Pakistan Independence Day in 2004.
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Pakistani Americans, Module 3
