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“Negrito Boy”
Drawings from the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. The following are drawings by Smithsonian naturalists of Filipinos.
Featured in:
Filipinx American Histories, Module 2
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“Manilla Costumes”
Drawings from the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. The following are drawings by Smithsonian naturalists of Filipinos.
Featured in:
Filipinx American Histories, Module 2
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“Native of Luzon”
Drawings from the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. The following are drawings by Smithsonian naturalists of Filipinos.
Featured in:
Filipinx American Histories, Module 2
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Atlas of the Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition
This map of the Straits of Basillan and Islands was included in Charles Wilkes’ “The Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition.”
Featured in:
Filipinx American Histories, Module 2
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“We Are the Children”
Listen to a sample from Chris Iijima, Nobuko Miyamoyo, and Charlie Chin’s A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America (New Paredon Records, 1973), PAR01020. This was an album that expressed the political and cultural values of the Asian American Movement.
Featured in:
Filipinx American Histories, Module 1
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International Day of Protest: September 21, 1985
This 1985 International Day of Protest against the US-Marcos dictatorship was organized by a coalition of several international student groups on the anniversary of Marcos’ declaration of martial law.
Featured in:
Filipinx American Histories, Module 1
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Diary entries from Angeles Monrayo’s Tomorrow’s Memories Page 17
Read the first few entries of Angeles Monrayo’s diary, published in Tomorrow’s Memories: A Diary, edited by Rizaline R. Raymundo (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003), pp. 15-17.
Featured in:
Filipinx American Histories, Module 1
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Diary entries from Angeles Monrayo’s Tomorrow’s Memories Page 16
Read the first few entries of Angeles Monrayo’s diary, published in Tomorrow’s Memories: A Diary, edited by Rizaline R. Raymundo (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003), pp. 15-17.
Featured in:
Filipinx American Histories, Module 1
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Diary entries from Angeles Monrayo’s Tomorrow’s Memories Page 15
Read the first few entries of Angeles Monrayo’s diary, published in Tomorrow’s Memories: A Diary, edited by Rizaline R. Raymundo (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003), pp. 15-17.
Featured in:
Filipinx American Histories, Module 1
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Illustration of Saint Malo, Louisiana
Drawings of the first permanent Asian settlement in the Americas, circa 1883. The illustrations included in this article are rare depictions of an Asian Pacific American community outside of more familiar locations such as the Chinatowns of New York and San Francisco.
Featured in:
Filipinx American Histories, Module 1
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Census Data on Filipino Population, 1910 to 2020
US Census data on Filipino populations in Hawaiʻi combined with Filipino populations on the continental United States. (Source: 2002 US Census)
Featured in:
Filipinx American Histories, Module 1
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Alysa Liu
In 2026 UCLA Bruin Alysa Liu won two Olympic gold medals at the Milano Cortina games, becoming the first female American figure skater to win an individual gold in twenty-four years.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 7
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Michelle Kwan
Michelle Kwan, the most decorated figure skater in US history, performing her signature spiral at a 2002 practice session in Los Angeles, California. She has called Yamaguchi her skating role model.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 7
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Kristi Yamaguchi
At the 1992 winter Olympics, Japanese American figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi became the first Asian American in history to bring the United States an Olympic gold in skating. Her achievement was still not immune from racist American sportswriting back home.
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 7
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Sunisa Lee
Gymnast Sunisa Lee, the first Hmong American to compete in the Olympic Games. Her six Olympic medals include two golds: the 2020 individual all-around and the 2024 Team competition.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 7
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Tiger Woods
Arguably the most successful pro golfer of all time, Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods, is the son of an African American father and Thai-Chinese American mother. Woods coined the term Cablinasian to reference his identity, emphasizing his array of different cultural roots.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 7
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Michelle Wie
Korean American golfer Michelle Wie was the first Asian American woman golfer to achieve mass recognition. She went pro just before her sixteenth birthday in 2005, and won her first and only Major, the US Women’s Open, in 2014.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 7
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Michael Chang
Michael Chang collapses after defeating world number one Ivan Lendl while cramping at the 1989 French Open, where he famously used an underarm serve. At age seventeen, Chang would become the youngest men’s Grand Slam singles champion in history.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 7
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Dave Roberts and Shohei Ohtani
Dave Roberts (left), who is Black and Japanese American and Major League Baseball’s only Asian American manager, with Japan’s Shohei Ohtani (right), whose ability to pitch and hit at elite levels have made him the most popular baseball player on earth.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 6
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Linsanity!
In 2012 Taiwanese American basketball player Jeremy Lin, an unheralded, undrafted bench player for the New York Knicks, was catapulted from anonymity to superstardom while fueling an exhilarating cultural moment dubbed “Linsanity.”
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Asian American Popular Culture, Module 6
