Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans: Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and CommunitiesThe number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student population. However, classroom material often does not include their version of the American experience. Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans was created to address this void. This resource guide provides interactive activities, assignments, and strategies for classrooms or workshops. Those new to the field of Asian American studies will appreciate the background information on issues that concern Asian Pacific Americans, while experts in the field will find powerful, innovative teaching activities that clearly convey established and new ideas. The activities in this book have been used effectively in classrooms, workshops for staff and practitioners in student services programs, community-based organizations, teacher training programs, social service agencies, and diversity training. Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans serves as a critical resource for anyone interested in race, ethnicity, and Asian Pacific American communities. |
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Addressing Redress Japanese Americans Reparations for Their Incarceration during World War II | 163 |
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Bridging Generations Bringing the Experiences of Illness Health and Aging into the Classroom | 215 |
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Generative Thinking Using a Funding Proposal to Inspire Critical Thinking | 261 |
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Page 56 - January 1951 and owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country...
Page 12 - Despite these figures, at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, the^ reforms had produced what many economists called the "Chilean economic miracle".
Page 131 - Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1980s (New York: Routledge, 1994).
Page 160 - Dear Sir: I have not had any fighting to do since I have been here and don't care to do any. I feel sorry for these people and all that have come under the control of the United States. I don't believe they will be justly dealt by. The first thing in the morning is the "Nigger" and the last thing at night is the "Nigger.
Page 76 - transnationalism" as the processes by which immigrants forge and sustain multi-stranded social relations that link together their societies of origin and settlement.
Page 148 - My father's own father he waded that river; They took all the money he made in his life; My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees And they rode the truck till they took down and died.
Page 148 - Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted, Our work contract's out and we have to move on; Six hundred miles to that Mexican border, They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.
Page 155 - I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn; the more you kill and burn the better you will please me.
Page 149 - You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane All they will call you will be deportees.
Page 65 - Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990), p. 202. 38. See Lisa Belklin. "Bars to Equality of Sexes Seen as Eroding Slowly," New York Times, August 20, 1989, p.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans: Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities Volume 15 of Critical perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans series G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Authors | Edith Wen-Chu Chen, Glenn Omatsu |
| Editors | Edith Wen-Chu Chen, Glenn Omatsu |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0742553388, 9780742553385 |
| Length | 316 pages |
| Subjects | › › Education / Multicultural Education Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Social Science Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies |
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