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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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Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California
The full caption for this photograph reads: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. A typical interior scene in one of the barrack apartments at this center. Note the cloth partition which lends a small amount of privacy.
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Nisei soldiers standing at attention
Original caption: Two Color guards and color bearers of the Japanese-American 442nd Combat Team, stand at attention while their citations are read. They are standing on ground, in the Bruyeres Area, France, where many of their comrades fell. 12 November 1944.
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Japanese American Responses to Incarceration
Densho historical video of the Japanese American responses to the World War II incarceration. 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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Issei mother and children
Caption by Homer Yasui: “This is a formal portrait of most of the Yasui family, taken in the Third Street home in Hood River [Shidzuyo] is holding Shu on her lap, Mihci is sitting in an adjustable child’s chair, Roku is sitting on a rectangular leather-topped stool, and the older boys are gathered in front of a piano.”
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President Carter signing legislation
Men standing behind President Jimmy Carter in White House, signing of Commission of Wartime Relocation and Internment of Citizens Act into law. Unknown, Clifford Uyeda, Ted Stevens, Daniel Inouye, Ron Ikejiri, Barbara Ikejiri, Norm Mineta, Spark Matsunaga, George Danielson. President Carter seated. photo front and back. Signed by George Danielson, Congressman from California.
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Redress March, August 1989
Matsuda, Gann. Redress March. Photograph. August, 1989. Los Angeles, California. Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (formerly the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations).
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Righting a Wrong
Densho historical video of the post-World War II rebuilding of the Japanese American community. Learn more at www.densho.org.
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Scene at the Manzanar Pilgrimage
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Japanese Railroad Workers
Japanese contract workers build the railroad [n.d.].
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Masuo Yasui and friend Katsusaburo Tamura preparing for Portland’s Rose Festival
Caption by Homer Yasui: “[Masuo Yasui] and Katsusaburo Tamura, dressed in all-white clothing They must have been so dressed because they were going to take part in Portland’s first Rose Festival parade.” Photograph taken outside the Portland Japanese Methodist Mission.
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The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
Stan Yogi
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Module 1: Overview & Introduction
Stan Yogi
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Module 2: Setting the Stage for Japanese American Mass Incarceration
Stan Yogi
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Module 3: Forced Uprooting and Incarceration
Stan Yogi
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Module 4: Cooperation, Resistance, and Dissent
Stan Yogi
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Module 5: Starting Over
Stan Yogi
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Module 6: Redress and Solidarity
Stan Yogi
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The Tape Family and Chinese American Civil Rights
Mae Ngai
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Module 1: That Chinese Girl
Mae Ngai
