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The goal of this course is to encourage students to rethink how they understand history. Specifically, students conducted historical or interdisciplinary research to excavate their family's or a specific community's history. The class culminated with each student producing an essay and a digital exhibit that highlights a mosaic of experiences that include themes such as activism, class, education, empire, ethnicity, gender, immigration, intergenerational/interethnic/interracial relations, migration, militarization, racism, refugee status, sexuality, and war. The digital archive you are about to explore serves to capture and preserve the kaleidoscope of experiences that is Asian America.

Bisquera Family Philippine Trip by Chance Bisquera

Family Baby Necklace by Nisha Bhatia

The Table’s Turned: You Sabe Him? Kearney Must Go! by Emily Cao

H-1B Visa by Xingyao Chen

Painting of men observing cloud formations by Veronica Cortes

Sugimoto paints the colors of the relocation camps by Gregory Derecho

Chinese Boy Scouts, circa 1940 by Trevor Fung

China First: A Case Study on Menus and Chinese Food in America by Linda Huang

Mother’s Korean Passport by Jason Kim

Gim Lew Yep: Immigration at Angel Island by Lee Labov

Children’s Blanket by Lilly Liu

First and Second-Generation Hindu Indian Experiences in the U.S. by Nisha Maheshwari

A Vietnamese/Vietnamese-American Experience by Alicia Ngo

Hideo Yamamoto’s chanoyu set: chawan, chashaku, and chasen by Emily Nishimura

The Park and Han Families in Michigan by Celine Park

Letter to Siddavanahalli Krishna Sharma by Neeta Rao

“Sungmin Park’s Master’s Diploma” by Jasmine Seo

Từ điển Anh-Việt (English to Vietnamese dictionary) and Từ điển Việt-An by Kim Tran

Banker at Coast Federal Bank by Brittany Wang

Grandfather’s autobiography (路漫漫兮有尽期) by Christopher Ye