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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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Barack Obama Giving State of the Union Address
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Barack Obama and Kamala Harris Collage
Throughout their respective presidential campaigns, President Barack Obama (left) and Vice President Kamala Harris (right) were accused of using their multiracial heritage to win voters who shared their racial identities.
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Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage
“Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage” by Maria Root expresses commonalities among multiracial people.
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Book Cover for Hapa Girl
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Book Cover for Redefining Realness
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Book Cover for Speak Okinawa
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Book Cover for Crying in H Mart
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Book Cover for Hapa Tales and Other Lies
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Book Cover for Afakasi Woman
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Multiracial Author Memoirs Collage
Multiracial authors such as Michelle Zauner, Sharon H. Chang, Janet Mock, May-lee Chai, Lani Wendt Young, and Elizabeth Miki Brina have had success sharing their experiences and personal stories through memoirs.
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Romeo Must Die
Actors Jet Li (left) and Aaliyah (right) in Romeo Must Die (2000), an adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy with a martial-arts twist. However, instead of featuring star-crossed lovers, the filmmakers replaced the characters’ romantic scene with one featuring a platonic hug.
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LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen Vogue Cover
Basketball star LeBron James (left) and supermodel Gisele Bundchen (right) pose together on the cover of the April 2008 issue of Vogue. The image generated controversy, as many saw a perpetuation of harmful racial stereotypes featuring James, a Black man, and Bundchen, a white woman.
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Rush Hour
Chris Tucker (left) and Jackie Chan (right) in the 1998 film Rush Hour.
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The “Oxford Fallacy” on TikTok
@maggie_zhou on TikTok explains the harm caused to Asian women by the “Oxford Study” fallacy.
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Pew Research Center Hawaiʻi Multiracial Data
Data from Pew Research Center shows that Hawaiʻi is the US state with the largest share of multiracial Americans by far. (Source: Pew Research Center)
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Operation Babylift
Vietnamese refugee children on an Operation Babylift flight to San Francisco on April 5, 1975. Over three thousand Vietnamese orphans were eventually transported to the US, including the multiracial children of American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers.
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Rullia Singh and Valentina Alvarez
Rullia Singh (right) and Valentina Alvarez (left), a Punjabi Mexican American couple in Yuba Valley, California, pose for their wedding photo in 1917.
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Hawaiʻi’s Multiracial Population
Hawaiʻi is home to the United States’ largest state population of multiracial Americans, with 22 percent identifying as multiracial Pacific Islander. (Source: Pew Research Center)
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2020 US Census of People Selecting More Than One Racial Category
This figure depicts population data based on race collected in the 2020 US Census. In 2020, people who selected more than one racial category increased by 127 percent since the 2010 Census. (Source: US Census Bureau, 2020)
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Illustration of People Indentifying as Multiracial 2010-2020
This figure illustrates the increasing number of people who identify as “Multiracial” compared to other racial categories between 2010 and 2020. (Source: US Census Bureau, 2020)
