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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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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Taking a Selfie with Fans
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Celebrity Multiracial AA&PIs
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Jason Momoa, H.E.R., Kamala Harris, Bruno Mars, Keanu Reeves, Naomi Osaka, and Juju Smith-Schuster are among the US’s most famous multiracial Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans.
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An Indonesian sailor during World War II.
An Indonesian sailor during World War II. The trial of the detained sailors set the stage for future refugee cases in the US.
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Indonesian men at immigration detention facility in San Francisco to be transported to immigration detention facility in Crystal City, Texas
An archival collection undertaken as a part of the California State University Japanese American Digitization Project shows the transport of the Indonesian maritime workers to Crystal City, Texas, where Japanese Americans were also being incarcerated during World War II.
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Indonesian deportees changing currency
Indonesian workers exchanged currency while undergoing deportation from San Francisco, California, to Jakarta, Indonesia (then called Batavia, Dutch East Indies).
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Hand-drawn map of Crystal City internment camp, Texas.
Indonesian maritime workers were incarcerated alongside Japanese Americans during World War II in Crystal City, Texas, and were ultimately deported to Indonesia. Their important history represents an early chapter of Asian immigrants in the United States, many of whom were likely Muslim, many years prior to the 9/11 era.
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Indonesians boarding a train in San Francisco for the immigration detention facility at Crystal City, Texas
In this 1947 photograph, Indonesian maritime workers carry their possessions for their train ride to a detention facility in Crystal City, Texas.
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Indonesian maritime workers making gamelan instrument
This gamelan instrument, likely made out of discarded materials from the ship, demonstrates the cultural practices of maritime workers in recreating objects that would remind them of their home in Indonesia.
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New York Times, December 21, 1945
This New York Times article from December 21, 1945, chronicles the Indonesian maritime workers who refused to work on ships transporting weapons and other armaments to suppress resistance against Dutch colonizers in Indonesia.
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Indonesian sailor during World War II
An Indonesian sailor at work maintaining a ship. These photos represent the importance of Indonesians as workers in the global economy, as well as the value of the maritime industry worldwide.
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Indonesian maritime workers during World War II
Two Indonesian maritime workers and the Dutch ship they worked on in the background during World War II.
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Indonesian merchant seamen during World War II
Indonesian merchant seamen during World War II. Because they are wearing more formal clothing, it is likely that this picture was taken during their leisure time.
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Bhairavi Desai and yellow-cab drivers, 1998
Co-founders of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, with Indian American Bhairavi Desai (center) and Pakistani American Javaid Tariq (third from left), in a photo from The New Yorker, captured in 1998.
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Photograph by Corky Lee (1947–2021)
Chinese American photographer Corky Lee (1947–2021) photographed his elderly uncle and his wife in their Chinatown apartment in 1981, as part of his project to show Asian Americans in their everyday lives.
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Vietnamese refugees await rescue
In the years following the Fall of Saigon, many refugees left Vietnam secretly in unseaworthy and overcrowded boats. This second wave of refugees became known as the “boat people.”
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Map of previously divided Vietnam
A map of previously divided Vietnam. The Việt Nam-American War (1955–1975), including adjacent wars in the former French colonies of Cambodia and Laos, ended with the withdrawal of US forces and the reunification of Vietnam.
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Map of Korea showing demarcation line and demilitarized zone after Korean War 1950–1953
This map of Korea shows the demarcation line and demilitarized zone (DMZ) established after the Korean War of 1950–1953, in which US troops were heavily involved.
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Pakistani Independence Day Parade, New York City, 2016
Proud Pakistani Americans take part in the Pakistani Independence Day Parade on Madison Avenue in New York City, 2016.
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Amy Uyematsu article, “The Emergence of Yellow Power in America”, pt 2
Amy Uyematsu article, “The Emergence of Yellow Power in America” in Roots: An Asian American Reader examines the social position of Asians in America in 1971.
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Amy Uyematsu article, “The Emergence of Yellow Power in America”, pt 1
Amy Uyematsu article, “The Emergence of Yellow Power in America” in Roots: An Asian American Reader examines the social position of Asians in America in 1971.
