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Asian American and Pacific Islander studies resources for the classroom
All chapters of Foundations and Futures include lesson plans and curricular tools that are designed for high school students and grounded in ethnic studies pedagogy. Feel free to search our repository of primary sources and material that helps bring Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and experiences into the classroom.
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Portrait of Masuo Yasui
Portrait of Masuo Yasui as a young man wearing Western clothing. Caption by Homer Yasui: “Masuo Yasui came to the United States alone, departing from Yokohama, Japan on the Ryojun Maru, at the age of 16-1/2 years. He arrived in Seattle on June 4, 1903.”
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Japs Keep Moving
Woman pointing to sign displayed above porch: “Japs Keep Moving – This is a White Man’s Neighborhood.” Signs in front window: “Japs Keep Out” and “Member Hollywood Protective Association”
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Hood River Japanese community welcoming dignitaries
Caption by Yuka Yasui: “Hood River Japanese community welcoming dignitaries.” Caption by Homer Yasui: “A very large gathering of Nikkei in front of the Hood River Japanese Community Hall I will guess that the couple in the center was the Japanese ambassador to the United States, Debuchi Kakka and Mrs. Debuchi. According to Corky Kawasaki, Kakka is an honorific title equivalent to ‘Excellency’ in English.”
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G-men, sheriff aides, hunt Jap spies Los Angeles, California, Calif.
G-men, sheriff aides, hunt Jap spies Los Angeles, Calif. – Searching for short wave radios, signal lights, guns and cameras, G-men and deputy sheriffs raided 40 Japanese owned farms on the rugged Palos Verdes coast, south of Los Angeles. An officer searches for contraband as farm owners (Japanese-American citizens) watch in background, but found the place “clean” of any signaling devices of forbidden radios.
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American Concentration Camps
Densho historical video of the World War II Japanese American incarceration. Learn more at www.densho.org.
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Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry
Instructions for relocation in accordance with Civilian Exclusion Order No. 5 as ordered by John L. DeWitt
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Kimiko Kitagaki waits for an “evacuation” bus.
Kimiko Kitagaki waits for an “evacuation” bus that is due in 30 minutes. Her father was in the cleaning and dyeing business before the “evacuation” order.
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Looking Like the Enemy
Densho historical video of the aftermath of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Learn more at www.densho.org. Funding for this video was provided, in part, by an award from 4Culture, and by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program.
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Combined map of Temporary Detention Centers, War Relocation Authority Camps, and Areas Where Japanese Americans Could Not Live Freely.
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Poston, Arizona. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are filling straw ticks for mattresses upon arrival
The full caption for this photograph reads: Poston, Arizona. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are filling straw ticks for mattresses upon arrival at this War Relocation Authority center.
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