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Ideas This Week
How AAPI Thinkers are Redefining Asianness
Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) thought leaders reveal their experiences with “single stories” to demonstrate what it can look like to push back against restrictive narratives that dominate American society.
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Teaching About Anti-Asian Violence: Start with Yourself and Your Community
Most school curriculum fails to adequately address Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) histories and identities, which contributes to a widespread lack of understanding that fuels the anti-AAPI hate we see today. Facing History provides suggestions and resources for educators to better address AAPI histories so as to avoid continuing this damaging trend.
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Identity, Literature, and Possibility: A Conversation with Nicole Chung
Facing History's Franklin Stebbins sits down with Nicole Chung as she recounts her experience growing up navigating anti-Asian racism as a transracial adoptee of Korean descent within a white family in small-town Oregon.
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Remembering Little Rock
Facing History shares on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 and provides resources for educators to use with their students to promote historical understanding, critical thinking, social-emotional learning, and civic agency.
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Helen Zia on the Asian American Movement
This article examines the rise of the Asian American movement through the leading voice of Helen Zia, a Chinese American author and activist working at the intersections of struggles for racial and LGBTQ justice, who helped provide a foundation for AAPI-led resistance against racism and violence.
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Recap: Digging Deeper at Facing History's Immigration Summit
Facing History reflects on Identity, Membership, and Belonging: A Summit on Teaching Immigration.
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Reflections on the Teaching for Equity and Justice Summit 2021
Facing History shares core themes explored in the Teaching for Equity and Justice Summit.
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Teaching Coming-of-Age Literature
Facing History explores examples of coming-of-age literature and its connection to our resources.
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Back to School: Co-Create Your Space to Build Community
Learn about including your students in imagining their classroom community in the first days of school.
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A Conversation with Dr. Kimberly Parker on Movements to Create More Readers
Facing History speaks with Dr. Kimberly Parker, co-founder of #DisruptTexts.
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Embrace SEL and Trauma Informed Teaching This Year
Facing History explores the meaning and mechanics of trauma-informed teaching.
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