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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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Nursery school children singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Nursery school children singing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.
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How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs
“How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs” in Time magazine, December 22, 1941 (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 25), p. 33. Photo: Tristan Bravinder, from the collection of the Santa Monica Public Library
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Japanese Relocation Order, 1942
Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland.
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Homer Yasui Interview Segment 9
Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor: “My heart sank down to my toes”
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Axis Spy Groups Smashed in Coast Raids; 300 Jailed
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Pinedale (Calif.) Assembly Center Dining Hall
Photograph shows Japanese Americans young women in waitress uniforms during forced removal of Japanese Americans to temporary concentration camps during World War II.
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Dr. James Goto examining a patient at the Manzanar Concentration camp
Dr. James Goto, a Los Angeles physician and surgeon, examines a patient in the emergency hospital at Manzanar concentration camp, California, April 2, 1942.
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Evacuee stenographers and clerks at work in Administrative Office
Evacuee stenographers and clerks at work in Administrative Office
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White shell corsage pin
Made from seashells at Tule Lake Relocation Center. Tule Lake Relocation Center and Topaz Relocation Center were on or near shell beds. When the surface supply of good shells was eventually exhausted, the internees dug for them in beds from one to four feet below the ground. After gathering, sifting, and sorting, the shells would be washed and bleached in a weak chlorine solution, then assembled and arranged into countless compositions. Shells would sometimes be carried from one camp to another, especially when internees were transferred to another camp.
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The Down Beats
Photograph of the Tule Lake Down Beats. Woodie Ichihashi is identified as the leader and Gordon Chang is identified from the Bancroft Library. No negative is with the file, note included that the negative was from Chang Gordon. Photograph is of the group playing for people, the crowd is visible on the left side. Group has 8 visible members: 4 in the front row and 4 in the back row. Group is directed by Woodie Ichihashi.
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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
