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Becoming American Study Guide

This guide to accompany the film Becoming American helps students investigate identity and belonging through the stories of generations of Chinese immigrants in the United States and their paths to "becoming American."

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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience

What does it mean to become American? In interviews with historians, descendants, and recent immigrants, Bill Moyers explores this question through the experience of the Chinese in America.

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Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America

This collection of stories is a tribute to the people, most of them immigrants, who make Queens such a culturally rich community.

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Exploring Civil Rights and Migration: 18-week Curriculum Outline

This outline provides an instructional pathway for educators to teach 18-week curriculum exploring questions of identity, membership and belonging, and the power of their individual and collective choices. Recommended for 7th and 8th-grade educators.

It is based on the following resources: 1) Unit: Choices in Little Rock, 2) Memoir: Warriors Don’t Cry, 3) Unit: My Part of the Story, and 4) Nonfiction Book: Enrique’s Journey.

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I Learn America Viewers' Guide

This guide to the documentary film I Learn America prompts educators, students, and school communities to reflect on the role of schools in welcoming newcomers to the United States.

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No Más Bebés

Immigrant mothers sue county doctors, the state, and the U.S. government after they were tricked into sterilizations in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Outcasts United

Outcasts United is the story of a refugee soccer team, a remarkable woman coach, and a small southern town turned upside down by the process of refugee resettlement.

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Stories of Identity: Religion, Migration, and Belonging in a Changing World

Featuring the personal narratives of young migrants, this resource challenges students to reflect on the ways that migration affects personal identity.

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Teaching Enrique's Journey

This guide provides activities and discussion questions for leading your students through a six-week reading of Enrique's Journey that explores themes of identity, belonging, and choices.

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Pre-war Jewish Life

The Jewish Americans

Tracing the history of Jewish Americans from their first settlement in 1654 to the present, this documentary illustrates the struggles they face in maintaining a sense of their own identity.

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What Do We Do with a Difference? France and The Debate Over Headscarves in Schools

Using a unique mix of scholarly insights, first-person stories, and interviews with school-age students, this resources uses the debate in France over wearing of veils by Islamic girls as a way to develop an educational framework for integration, tolerance, and cultural acceptance. 

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Young, Muslim and French

Focusing on the 2004 decision to ban the wearing of traditional Muslim headscarves in public schools, this program shows how the controversy has played out in Dammarie-les-Lys, a racially diverse community.

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