OBJECTIVES: Teachers will be encouraged to use these cases to provide a wider context to the history of the civil rights movement and constitutional issues such as citizenship and equal protection under the law. Students will be able to explain how Asian Americans came to play significant roles in civil rights history and in the…
OBJECTIVES: Recognize and understand the power of language: that words can be used to hurt and that they have a responsibility to choose words that support and promote human dignity. Students will be able to employ respectful vocabulary to discuss circumstances surrounding immigration, displacement, and human migration, and do so with empathy, compassion, and which…
OBJECTIVES: Explain who Frederick Douglass is and what he is best known for. Expand their understanding of his life through expressing how he viewed other people who made up the “composite “nation” including Chinese immigrants. Connect, compare, and contrast Douglass’ views to issues of today.
OBJECTIVES: Create a fuller, more complete picture of the building of the Transcontinental Railroad and the important role Chinese workers played in its construction. To provide insight into the lives of the Chinese workers: how they lived and worked to overcome both. Cultural and physical obstacles to help build one of the most monumental engineering…
OBJECTIVES: Describe the achievements of Asian Americans, individually and collectively, to advance the cause of workers’ rights which also strengthened the American labor movement. Describe the backstory for each of the people or groups and explain how they became activists for the cause of workers’ rights. Assess the outcome of these individuals and groups in…
OBJECTIVES: Students will learn about the immigration experience of the Chinese who entered the United States on the West Coast through Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay, between 1910 and 1940. Students will understand the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the processing of Chinese immigrants at the station on Angel Island. Students will…
OBJECTIVES: Analyze the relationships between family, culture, beauty, and wealth. Understand the value of cultural wealth. Understand the history of the Hmong people and how it impacts us today.
OBJECTIVES: Understand the origins of Sikh immigration in the United States Analyze the historical context that proceeded the 1907 Bellingham Riots Discover the connection between Sikh history and US Immigration Acts
OBJECTIVES: Through the analysis of primary and secondary sources, students will be able to: Provide a summary of the historical context surrounding the Angel Island Immigration Station. Compare and contrast the experiences of immigrants at Ellis Island and immigrants at Angel Island. Analyze the development and application of different policies and opinions regarding Asian immigration…
OBJECTIVES: Understand the history behind the 1965 Immigration Act and its impact on demography, politics, and historical development. Rethink the notion of “shame” in relation to the Asian-American identity and to the end of white innocence. Recognize how the author uses personal anecdotes to support her argument on racial trauma.