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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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The South Asian Student Association Cultural Show
The South Asian Students Association at the University of Chicago produces their annual cultural show.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 4
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Behind the Dominance of Indian American Spellers
Indian American contestants have dominated the Scripps National Spelling Bee for many years.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 4
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Sikh Community Center Volunteers
Serving hot meals in New York City after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Sikh volunteers exemplify a tradition of seva (service).
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 3
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Devotees at the Sri Venkateswara Temple
Devotees gather at the Sri Venkateswara Temple near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as seen in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 3
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Srila Prabhupada with Hare Krsnas
Srila Prabhupada with Hare Krsnas, Hindu devotees in America.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 3
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Old Vedanta Temple
The Old Vedanta Temple in San Francisco, California, was the first Hindu temple established in the United States.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 3
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Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda, “Guru to the world,” first came to America in 1893. He is often credited with introducing yoga to the United States.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 3
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Indian American Navroze Mody
Navroze Mody (middle), an Indian American who was murdered as a victim of racial violence.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 2
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“In Jersey City, Indians Protest Violence”
The New York Times in 1987 wrote of Indians in Jersey City protesting the anti-Indian violence of the “Dotbusters.”
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Indian Americans, Module 2
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“No Vacancy” Excerpt
Excerpt from short film “No Vacancy,” about an Indian American filmmaker’s experience of growing up in a motel.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 2
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Pratima Patel and Family at Hotel
Pratima Patel takes a photo of her father (at right) and his siblings as her sisters look on. In the early 1970s their Gujarati grandfather bought the Vincent Hotel in San Francisco. The granddaughters now run and own twelve properties.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 2
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In Search of Bengali Harlem
Author and filmmaker Vivek Bald discusses his research of the migration of thousands of South Asian men who worked on British colonial steamships, who then jumped ship after arriving in American ports in order to escape British colonial rule. They married African American and Puerto Rican women, raising interfaith and interracial families.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 2
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An Indian Immigrant Worker Harvests Beets
An Indian immigrant worker harvests beets in Hamilton City, California, in the early twentieth century.
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Indian Americans, Module 2
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Har Gobind Khorana
Har Gobind Khorana arrived in the US from India in 1960, and in 1968 won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 1
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Dalip Singh Saund on First Federal Presents
Dalip Singh Saund became the first Indian American and Asian American elected to Congress, in 1956.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 1
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J. J. Singh with President Harry Truman
J. J. Singh (third from right) observes President Harry S. Truman signing the Luce-Celler Act of 1946, which gave Indian immigrants the right to naturalization.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 1
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Punjabi Mexican Family with Kids
Ernestina and Bishan Singh’s Punjabi Mexican family, photographed in 1932.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 1
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Valentina Alvarez and Rullia Singh
Valentina Alvarez and Rullia Singh, a Punjabi Mexican American couple in Yuba Valley, California. They married in 1917.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 1
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“Millions of Hindus, in India, Waiting for Chance to Swamp Coast with Cheap Labor”
A newspaper clipping from 1913 highlights white America’s racialized anxieties towards Indian Americans by exaggerating their levels of migration.
Featured in:
Indian Americans, Module 1
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“Same Question” Performance
Spoken word duo Steady performs their poem “Same Question” at the 2024 Katipunan Poetry Slam.
Featured in:
Filipinx American Histories, Module 7
