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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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T Kira Māhealani Madden Interview, Clip 2
T Kira Māhealani Madden describes how her slowly growing understanding of race and sexuality emerged in her adolescence and adulthood, and how she tried to echo that evolution in her memoir.
Featured in:
Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 5
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T Kira Māhealani Madden Interview, Clip 1
T Kira Māhealani Madden describes how her slowly growing understanding of race and sexuality emerged in her adolescence and adulthood, and how she tried to echo that evolution in her memoir.
Featured in:
Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 5
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T Kira Māhealani Madden
Writer T Kira Māhealani Madden explores race, sexuality, trauma, and belonging through her experiences as a mixed-race girl growing up in Florida in her 2019 memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls.
Featured in:
Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 5
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Abraham Verghese Interview
In this 2009 interview, Dr. Abraham Verghese discusses his experience of treating HIV+ and AIDS patients in Tennessee, including his observation of what he calls a migration to and from rural areas.
Featured in:
Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 5
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Abraham Verghese
Dr. Abraham Verghese, whose 1994 memoir, My Own Country, reflected on his experiences treating HIV/AIDS patients in Tennessee during the 1980s, and how his identity as an outsider shaped his medical and emotional connection to them.
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Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 5
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Monique Truong Oral History
Watch this excerpt of Monique Truong’s oral history interview from Houston Asian American Archives at Rice University.
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Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 5
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Monique Truong
Novelist Monique Truong, author of Bitter in the Mouth, about a Vietnamese American adoptee in North Carolina whose hidden identity and synaesthesia shape her experience of race, language, and belonging in the South.
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Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 5
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“When Texas Students Campaigned for a More Diverse History Course, They Got a Lesson in Politics”
In 2022, Ayaan Moledina, then thirteen years old, was one of many community members who advocated for the inclusion of Asian American histories in Texas social studies curricula. After the initiative ran into heated opposition, its formal consideration was deferred for years.
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Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 4
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Kiyoshi Kuromiya Interview
In a 1997 oral history, Kiyoshi Kuromiya describes his involvement with civil rights activism in the 1960s, including his close relationship with Martin Luther King, Jr. and his injury and confrontation with law enforcement in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 4
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An Ordinary Hero, Clip 4
Hamid Kizilbash and fellow activists Reverend Ed King and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland recall their narrow escape from lynching when returning from a civil rights meeting in Mississippi during the “Freedom Summer” of 1964.
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Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 4
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An Ordinary Hero, Clip 3
Hamid Kizilbash and fellow activists Reverend Ed King and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland recall their narrow escape from lynching when returning from a civil rights meeting in Mississippi during the “Freedom Summer” of 1964.
Featured in:
Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 4
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An Ordinary Hero, Clip 2
Hamid Kizilbash and fellow activists Reverend Ed King and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland recall their narrow escape from lynching when returning from a civil rights meeting in Mississippi during the “Freedom Summer” of 1964.
Featured in:
Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 4
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An Ordinary Hero, Clip 1
Hamid Kizilbash and fellow activists Reverend Ed King and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland recall their narrow escape from lynching when returning from a civil rights meeting in Mississippi during the “Freedom Summer” of 1964.
Featured in:
Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 4
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Mary Harrison Oral History
Mary Harrison Lee recollects how she became involved in the civil rights actions against segregated transportation, and her experience of being arrested and jailed in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 4
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Mary Harrison Lee Mug Shot
A mug shot of Freedom Rider Mary Harrison (later Lee), a Tougaloo College student, after she and three other activists were arrested in 1961 in a bus waiting room in Jackson, Mississippi for violating segregation laws.
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Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 4
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Divorce Decree Between Ruby and Ham Say Naim
This document annulling the marriage of Ruby and Ham Say Naim lists his “color” as Chinese, and the cause of divorce as “one party not of white race, marriage not legal.” Interracial marriages were explicitly prohibited in many Southern states.
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Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 4
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Pershing Wong Standing in Front of Automobile
Pershing Wong stands in front of a car in 1938 in Rosedale, Mississippi. As for African Americans, cars provided a means for transportation that avoided segregated waiting rooms and transport and often, for Asian Americans, the very localized question of which room or seats to use.
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Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 4
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Chinese American Dance Event
This all-Chinese American dance in 1946 was a safe space for young Chinese Americans to dance together and perhaps look for future partners during the era of segregation.
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Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 4
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The Lum Family
Martha and Berda Lum with their parents, date unknown, but presumed to be a year or two before the 1924 Supreme Court decision Lum v. Rice that determined that Mississippi could exclude Chinese from whites-only schools.
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Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 4
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A Village Called Versailles, Clip 2
The people of Versailles and New Orleans East protest the lack of inclusion by the Bring New Orleans Back Commission. This was just one step in the community’s long fight for representation and community rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, which included a Lunar New Year (Tet) celebration with twenty thousand people.
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Asian Americans in the United States South, Module 3
