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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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Protest On Muslim Registry
Activists in Washington, DC, protest the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), which racially profiled South Asian, Muslim, and Arab American communities.
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Posted Exclusion Orders
Posters displayed in San Francisco, California, in 1942 ordered the mandatory “evacuation” of Japanese Americans from the Western United States during WWII. Citation: Unknown, “Posted Exclusion Orders,” photograph, April 11, 1942, Densho.org.
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Leading Races of Man Map
German naturalist and physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach claimed there were five human races and attempted to indicate the boundaries of each racialized group as shown in this map from 1889.
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Wong Kim Departure Statement
In 1894, Wong Kim Ark traveled to China to see his family. Despite these notarized re-entry papers, Wong was detained and denied reentry.
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Wong Kim Ark ID
A photo of Wong Kim Ark from a federal investigation case
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Of Course He Wants to Vote the Democratic Ticket!
An illustration from Harper’s Weekly (1876) illustrates the intimidation, suppression, and outright violence that Black voters faced during the Reconstruction Era and after.
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The First Duty
The cover of Puck magazine from 1900 reads, “That dragon must be killed before our troubles can be adjusted. If you don’t do it I shall have to.”
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The Yellow Terror in all His Glory
“The Yellow Terror in All His Glory,” an 1899 cartoon about the Boxer Rebellion in China, helped to inflame Western rhetoric about a “Yellow Peril.”
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SF Mayor Wants Exclusion
San Francisco mayor Eugene Schmitz ran on an anti-Japanese campaign. The segregation of Japanese American students in separate schools led to the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907.
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What Shall We Do With Our Boys?
Political cartoons in the late nineteenth century depicted Chinese migrants as diseased, dangerous, and sinister. This cartoon by George Frederick Keller was created in the same year as the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act and shows a caricatured Chinese labor as an economic threat.
