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Asian American and Pacific Islander studies resources for the classroom
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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Written apology which accompanied reparations checks
This written apology from former U.S. President George Bush accompanied redress checks for former camp inmates.
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Righting a Wrong
Densho historical video of the post-World War II rebuilding of the Japanese American community. Learn more at www.densho.org.
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Scene at the Manzanar Pilgrimage
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Karen Korematsu, Holly Yasui, and Jay Hirabayashi
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Japanese Railroad Workers
Japanese contract workers build the railroad [n.d.].
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Masuo Yasui and friend Katsusaburo Tamura preparing for Portland’s Rose Festival
Caption by Homer Yasui: “[Masuo Yasui] and Katsusaburo Tamura, dressed in all-white clothing They must have been so dressed because they were going to take part in Portland’s first Rose Festival parade.” Photograph taken outside the Portland Japanese Methodist Mission.
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Map pinpointing the area from which Masuo and Shidzuyo immigrated and also pinpointing the Hood River Valley
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“Japs Bringing Frightful Disease”
Full headline: “Japs Bringing Frightful Disease. Danger Now is in the School. Unwise Law Gives Diseased Asiatic Place as Pupil. Many Come in on Each Ship.”
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City Market of Los Angeles
Chinese and Japanese farmers and businessmen founded the City Market of Los Angeles in 1909 to sell and promote the produce immigrant farmers raised. Similarly, Issei growers established the Southern California Flower Market in 1912, the first major wholesale flower market in Los Angeles.
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Japanese cannery workers on Terminal Island (Calif.)
Female employees of a Japanese fishing cannery on Terminal Island leave work for the day Terminal Island, an artificial island in the Los Angeles Harbor and Long Beach Harbor, was the American base of the Japanese fishing industry until residents were forcefully arrested or evacuated between 1941 and 1942
