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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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Wat Misaka
Wat Misaka, barrier-breaking NBA player, suited up to play for the NCAA champion University of Utah in 1944.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 6
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“Gold”
“Gold” (2021), a collaboration between actor and singer-songwriter Ella Jay Basco and rapper Ruby Ibarra, explores the path to overcoming shame in how you look and where you come from to feeling pride in yourself — and in your skin.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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DJ Q-Bert
DJ Q-Bert at the Nuits Sonores festival (Lyon, France) in May 2006. The rise of hip hop in the Philippines paralleled and accelerated its popularity in Filipino communities back in the States.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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Japanese Breakfast
Michelle Zauner, AKA Japanese Breakfast, at the Day In Day Out Festival in Seattle Washington, August 2022.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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“Dynamite”
“Dynamite,” the first all-English song recorded by Korean band BTS, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2020. A massive global phenomenon transcending music, BTS’s cultural influence has been compared to that of the Beatles.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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“Gangnam Style”
Comedy rapper Park Jae-sang, better known as PSY, with his viral mega-hit “Gangnam Style”—the first video on YouTube to reach one billion views.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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Far East Movement
Far East Movement at the 2011 MuchMusic Video Awards. The all-Asian American hip hop / electronic dance group pushed Bruno Mars out of the top spot on the Billboard charts, marking the first and still the only time in history that Asian American acts occupied the two top spots.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars performing live during his 24K Magic World Tour. It wasn’t until the early 2000s that an Asian American performer would find superstardom in pop music—though many didn’t know about his Filipino American roots.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn
Linkin Park performing at the O2 Arena, London, during their 2024 Zero World Tour. The group includes Japanese American rapper Mike Shinoda (center), and Korean American DJ Joe Hahn (right).
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
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Fanny: The Right To Rock Clip
In this clip from “Right to Rock,” B-52s vocalist Kate Pierson explains how the band Fanny influenced her as a female musician. In 1970, the rock-funk group co-founded by the Filipino American Millington sisters, June (guitar and lead vocals) and Jean—became the first all-woman group to release an album on a major label.
Featured in:
Asian American Popular Culture, Module 5
