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Cultures
of the United States: Asian Americans |
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A FENCE AWAY FROM FREEDOM: JAPANESE
AMERICANS AND WORLD WAR II. By Ellen Levine. Speaking poignantly, 35 former
detainees recall life at manzanar and other camps.
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ASIAN AMERICAN CURRICULUM GUIDE:
Secondary. St. Paul Public Schools, 360 Colbourne St., St. Paul,
MN 55102. This guide is also designed to help students gain understanding
of Asian Americans. Activities include examining Asian-Americans in the
media, the Chinese New Year, Vietnamese lessons, Korean immigrant families
and the Japanese-American Relocation.
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ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCES: An Annotated
Bibliography. St. Paul Public Schools, 360 Colbourne St., St. Paul,
MN 55102. An exhaustive listing of resources available about Asian-Americans.
Includes journals, books, and folktales and is divided into cultures.
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ASIAN
AMERICAN HISTORY. By Lan Cao and Humilice Novas. Using a lively
question-and-answer format, the authors survey seven Asian- American groups
and subgroups.
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IN MY HEART, I AM A DANCER by
Chamroeun Yin.Philadelphia Folklore Project, 1996. A Cambodian dancer
tells the story of his life. Children learn that not only does he
dance, but he also sews, gardens, cooks, spends time with friends and is
a teacher. This is a model for teaching about cultural traditions.
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INDOCHINESE ACTIVITIES HANDBOOK.
Title VIII Multilingual Project, Portland Public Schools, Portland, Me.,
1982. Designed to provide English-speaking teachers with information,
techniques and evaluation instruments to help meet the needs of Indochinese
students.
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JAPANESE AMERICANS: Relocation.
Mount Dura, Florida: Documentary Photo Aids. Fifteen photographs (11x14)
dealing with the internment of Japanese-Americans in relocation camps during
World War II.
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PHOTO AIDS ON JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELOCATION.
Zenger, 1978. A set of 10 photographs (11x14) depicting a period
of U.S. history when 110,000 Japanese-Americans were relocated from the
West Coast into inland camps.
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PORTRAITS OF ASIAN-PACIFIC AMERICANS:
By Kim Sakamoto Steidl. Good Apple, Carthage, IL, 1991.
Collection of hands-on activities combined with easy-reading biographical
sketches of Asian-Pacific Americans such as Daniel Inouye, Amy Tan, "Sox"
Kitashima, and astrophysicist Subrahamanyan Chandrasekhar. Word searches,
creative writing, mapping, and artwork are among the highly engaging activities.
Grades 4-8. Illustrated. 8 1/2" x 11". 92 pp.
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THE INDOCHINESE. Brigham Young
University Language Research Center, Provo, Utah, 1981. This 36-page
booklet is an attempt at bringing together some of the best resources and
guidelines as a basic handbook for sponsors, teachers, employers, and friends
of Southeast Asian refugees. The resource section at the end of the
booklet can be as important as the text.
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WHO BELONGS HERE? An American
Story. By Margy Burns Knight, illustrated by Anne Sibley O'Brien.
Challenges students to explore the human implications of intolerance.
Readers follow a young Cambodian boy's journey from the brutality of Pol
Pot and Khmer Rouge, to a refugee camp in Thailand, to America where, his
Grandmother said, " life would be better than heaven." Uses questions
posed in the narrative to open discussions on the issue of immigration
law, racism, and the diversity of cultures. Grades 3-8. 40-pp.
hardboard book plus 80-pp. activity guide.
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