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[wd_asp id=1]#Docuhistory: Asian Americans
PBS's Asian Americans
#Docuhistory with Michael Salgarolo
Join us Thursday, May 21, 2020, for a screening and Twitter discussion of Part 1 of the PBS documentary, Asian Americans (2020). Part I of the documentary, entitled Breaking Ground & A Question of Loyalty, chronicles how new immigrants from China, Japan, and beyond adapted to life in America, building railroads, impressing in Hollywood, and fighting for equality. The first generation of U.S.-born Asian Americans then have their loyalties tested during World War II ... More Info
At 5 pm EDT, we'll all stream Part 1 of the documentary online. While streaming, we invite you to browse and join the discussion on Twitter by searching the #docuhistory hashtag or by checking in with discussion moderator Michael Salgarolo (@mlsalgarolo).
The #docuhistory series aims to create an informal space where teachers, students, and historians can join together to watch a documentary and discuss teaching and learning about the film's subject matter. The series is organized by Joe Schmidt, New York City Department of Education, @HSGlobalHistory, in collaboration with the Forum for Scholars and Publics.
Resource List
Part I, Asian Americans (2020) | Watch online
Angel Island Lesson Plans
The QKED Asian Education Initiative
Resources for teaching the history of Chinese Exclusion based on poems written on the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station.
Welga Digital Archive
The Bulosan Center for Filipinx Studies
Resources and lesson plans for teaching Filipino American migration history, as well as Filipinos' role in the Delano Grape Strike and United Farm Workers Movement.
Southeast Asian Digital Archive
UMass-Lowell
Resources for teaching histories of colonialism and displacement among refugee populations from mainland Southeast Asia in the United States.
Teaching Japanese-American Internment Through Primary Resources
By Marjorie Backman and Michael Gonchar | New York Times
Students use original Times reporting and other resources to investigate the forced internment of Japanese-Americans.
Chinese Exclusion/Inclusion: Share Your Story
New-York Historical Society
The Chinese experience in America has too rarely been told as a story at the center of American history, until now.
Asian Americans and Moments in People’s History
Zinn Education Project
Brief profiles of people and events from Asian American and Pacific Islander people’s history.
Speakers
Michael Salgarolo
Michael Salgarolo is a Ph.D. candidate in History at New York University and a Global South Fellow at the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University. His dissertation, "Manila Bayou," is a history of Filipino communities in Louisiana from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, focusing on…...
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