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  • A white, circular badge features a red triangle with a conch shell in the center. Surrounding it is text that reads, "Kanak Maori Independence."
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    Kanak Independence Badge

    This badge from the 1980s calls for Kanak independence in New Caledonia, a French territory where Kanak are Indigenous peoples, in solidarity with Māori of Aotearoa New Zealand, a former British Crown colony.

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    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
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  • A map of Oceania. The subregions of Micronesia, Melanesia, Australasia, and Polynesia are highlighted in various colors.
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    Map of Oceania

    Another map of Oceania with the subregions Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia identified. Compared to the map above, how might categorization be used to both divide and unite?

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    Pacific Islanders, Module 1
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  • Map of the Pacific Islands in Oceania. The map highlights the land masses of the smaller and larger island states.
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    Map of the Pacific Islands

    Map of the Pacific Islands, from the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Reproduced with permission.

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  • A Google Doodle of Bangladeshi American Fazlur Rahman Khan. He is dressed in a suit and tie with his hands raised looking at the John Hancock Center.
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    Google Doodle of Fazlur Rahman Khan

    Google celebrated what would have been Khan’s eighty-eighth birthday in 2017 with a Google Doodle that shows Chicago’s John Hancock Center, designed by Khan.

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 5
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  • Skyline view of the Sears Tower and other buildings in Chicago, Illinois on a clear and cloudless day.
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    Chicago Loop Skyline

    The iconic Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Fazlur Rahman Khan. Originally known as the Sears Tower, it was the tallest building in the world for over twenty-five years.

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  • Bangladeshi American Fazlur Khan in a suit and tie sits behind his office desk covered with piles of paper and holds his hands spread apart.
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    Fazlur Khan Sitting At His Desk

    Bangladeshi architect Fazlur Rahman Khan revolutionized the modern skyscraper with his use of tubular systems.

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  • Bangladeshi Americans gather outside on a snowy day behind a yellow ribbon in anticipation of the ceremonial unveiling of the Shaheed Minar replica.
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    Unveiling the Replica of the Shaheed Minar

    Bangladeshi Americans unveil a replica of the Shaheed Minar in Paterson, New Jersey, in 2015.

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  • Mural depicts a young girl wearing a saree on a boat floating in the water amongst lily pads as she handpicks another shapla for her collection.
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    Memory of Bangladesh Mural

    A young girl picks “shapla”, a water lily and the national flower of Bangladesh, in a mural by artist Zeehan Wazed in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York.

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  • Bangladeshi Americans gather on the street corner to celebrate the naming of Little Bangladesh. A man holds a Bangladeshi flag and an American flag.
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    Naming of Little Bangladesh in Brooklyn

    Bangladeshi Americans in 2022 celebrate the naming of the neighborhood “Little Bangladesh” in Brooklyn, New York.

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  • Bangladeshi Americans dressed in salwar kameez, kurta, and panjabi parade through the streets carrying colorful handmade masks during Pohela Boishakh.
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    Pohela Boishakh Parade

    Bangladeshi Americans celebrate Boishakh, the Bengali New Year, near Avenue C Plaza in Kensington, Brooklyn, New York.

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  • Headshot of Bangladeshi American Shahana Hanif wearing glasses and dressed in a wrap-style top, in front of an American flag and New York City flag.
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    Headshot of Shahana K. Hanif

    Shahana K. Hanif, a Bangladeshi American member of the New York City Council since 2022 for the 39th district, which covers neighborhoods in central Brooklyn including “Little Bangladesh.”

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  • Mural on the side of Bridge West Academy depicts a girl dressed in the Bangladeshi flag with a Bengal tiger, Bengali script, Shaheed Minar and hills.
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    “Bangladesh, Coming To America” Mural

    A large mural titled “Bangladesh, Coming to America,” painted by artist Victor “MARKA27” Quiñonez in 2018, as part of the OneHamtramck mural project in Detroit, Michigan.

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    The Little Bangladesh Neighborhood in Los Angeles

    Murals of prominent historic Bangladeshi leaders in Little Bangladesh, Los Angeles, California.

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  • Bangladeshi American Tanzila Ahmed wearing a polka dot dress kneels in front of hand-painted alponas on the sidewalk.
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    Tanzila Ahmed Posing with Hand-Painted Alponas

    Tanzila Ahmed, a political activist born and raised in Los Angeles, California, poses with hand-painted alponas (traditional Bengali folk art) in the neighborhood of Little Bangladesh in Los Angeles.

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  • Bangladeshi artist Tara Asgar wearing a long wig is seated under the spotlight with a microphone in hand and surrounded by people sitting in a circle.
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    Tara Asgar in Performance

    Tara Asgar during a performance in the US: “Coming to the US was a loss, and I had to start from zero, reshape my work.”

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    Bangladeshi Americans, Module 4
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  • Bangladeshi artist Tara Asgar sits on the lawn with one arm propped to the side and the other arm resting on her leg while wearing a tie dye saree.
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    Portrait of Tara Asgar

    Tara Asgar, a Bangladeshi artist, is deeply influenced by her connections to African American and Latinx communities in New York.

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  • Bangladeshi Chaumtoli Huq on the left speaks with ten female garment workers and organizers who are wearing salwar kameez inside small storage room.
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    Chaumtoli Huq with Garment Workers and Organizers

    Huq (left) with women workers and organizers in the apparel industry in Bangladesh, filming for her documentary Sramik Awaaz: Workers Voices (2017).

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  • Seven Bangladeshi American female organizers pose wearing saree on a sidewalk in New York, surrounded by brick buildings and parked cars.
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    Shahana K. Hanif and Sharmin Hossain with Organizers

    Bangladeshi American organizers in New York, including Huq (far right), alongside NYC Council member Shahana K. Hanif (third from right), and Sharmin Hossain of 18 Million Rising (far left).

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  • Bangladeshi Chaumtoli Huq with her husband and three daughters wearing winter coats at the train station.
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    Chaumtoli Huq and Family in New York City

    Chaumtoli Huq and her family moved in the early 1970s to the Bronx, New York, after the Bangladesh Liberation War.

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  • Bangladeshi American English professor and author Nadeem Zaman holds a stack of his books "The Inheritors" wearing glasses and a jacket inside a home.
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    Nadeem Zaman Holding a Stack of His Book The Inheritors

    Author Nadeem Zaman with his book, The Inheritors (2023). An English professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Zaman arrived in the US in 1991 at fifteen. The legacy of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War features heavily in his writing.

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