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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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Map pinpointing the area from which Masuo and Shidzuyo immigrated and also pinpointing the Hood River Valley
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“Japs Bringing Frightful Disease”
Full headline: “Japs Bringing Frightful Disease. Danger Now is in the School. Unwise Law Gives Diseased Asiatic Place as Pupil. Many Come in on Each Ship.”
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City Market of Los Angeles
Chinese and Japanese farmers and businessmen founded the City Market of Los Angeles in 1909 to sell and promote the produce immigrant farmers raised. Similarly, Issei growers established the Southern California Flower Market in 1912, the first major wholesale flower market in Los Angeles.
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Japanese cannery workers on Terminal Island (Calif.)
Female employees of a Japanese fishing cannery on Terminal Island leave work for the day Terminal Island, an artificial island in the Los Angeles Harbor and Long Beach Harbor, was the American base of the Japanese fishing industry until residents were forcefully arrested or evacuated between 1941 and 1942
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Christmas pageant at Japanese Community Hall
Caption in Japanese at top of photograph: “Iwa Kurisumasu [Christmas celebration].” Caption by Homer Yasui: “A Christmas pageant which was performed by the Nisei members of the Hood River Japanese Methodist Church The girl second left looks like Mika Asai to mel and it might have been Jessie Iwatsuki holding the star on the stick. I don’t recognize the person playing Mary, but Ches [Tsuyoshi Yasui] is the first magi to her left. Next to him looks like…Taro Asai; next after him is George Tamura with the white headpiece and who is holding the white sheep. I don’t recognize the next two boys, but standing at the extreme right, holding the white shepherd’s crook is Bill Yamaki.”
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Nisei girls wearing kimono
Caption by Homer Yasui: “Yuka and Michi [Yasui] sitting, and wearing kimono. Michi is holding a cloth parasol. This is a very cute picture, and I’d guess that Yuka was around 3 years old then.”
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Matsuura Company Tailors
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Rafu Yossai Gakuen
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Family during mass removal
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Men working in weeding field at Tule Lake Segregation Center
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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
