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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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Exclusion Act
The Exclusion Act (May 6, 1882) banned entry of Chinese migrant laborers into the United States. It was the first piece of significant legislation restricting migration into the U.S. and set precedent for the country’s ongoing discriminatory immigration policies.
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Tape Family Portrait
The Tape family, 1884. Left to right: Joseph, Emily, Mamie, Frank, Mary.
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The Tapes in the late 1920s
The Tape family in the 1920s. From left to right, standing: Gertrude Tape, Frank Tape, Emily Tape; sitting: Mary Tape, Mamie Tape, Joseph Tape.
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Daily Alta California, Volume 38, Number 12690, 10 January 1885
Article “Chinese in Our Schools” from the Daily Alta.
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Mamie, Emily, and Gertrude Tape
Sisters Mamie (left), Emily (right), and Gertrude, Berkeley, c. 1895.
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Joseph and Mary Tape, ca. 1917
Joseph and Mary Tape, c. 1917
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The Tapes in the early 1930s
The Tapes in the early 1930s.
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Ladies Protection and Relief
The Ladies Protection and Relief Society home for abandoned children (c. 1860), where Mary Tape was the only Chinese child resident.
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Mary McGladery
Mary McGladery, assistant matron, Ladies’ Protection and Relief Society, who raised Mary Tape, 1869-1875.
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Reverend Augustus W. Loomis
Reverend Augustus W. Loomis was a Presbyterian missionary who sought to convert Chinese migrants in San Francisco to Christianity throughout the 1860s and 1870s. Prior to his work in California, Loomis worked at an Indian boarding school for Creek children. Indian boarding schools were abusive institutions that abducted Indigenous children from their homes and imprisoned them in residential complexes where students were forcibly ‘civilized’ into white Christianity. Hundreds of Native children died in boarding schools, where they were subjected to attempted cultural genocide, unliveable conditions, and immense violence at the hands of their ‘caretakers.’
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