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Issues of identity and belonging are inseparable from the experience of immigration. Stories of immigrants, past and present, illuminate the human lives behind the ever-shifting global landscape we inhabit today.

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Democracy & Civic Engagement

Civic Dilemmas

The readings in this collection explore the nature of identity, belonging, tolerance, and difference in our increasingly global society.

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Antisemitism & Religious Intolerance

Standing Up to Hatred and Intolerance

Address today's global challenges with lesson plans focused on current events including the refugee crisis and contemporary antisemitism.

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Democracy & Civic Engagement

Finding Your Voice

Students reflect on what "American" means to them and are introduced to the idea that the United States is the product of many individual voices and stories.

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Justice & Human Rights

Understanding the Global Refugee Crisis

Students use videos and readings featuring US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power to develop a historical and human understanding of today’s global refugee crisis.

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Becoming American Study Guide

Help students investigate identity and belonging through a film about 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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Chicano!

The Mexican-American civil rights movement (1965-1975) is recorded in this four-part series. Pivotal events concerning land, labor, education, and political empowerment are examined.

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Enrique's Journey

A Honduran boy goes on an unforgettable quest looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States.

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Global Immigration

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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Global Immigration

Farmingville

In Farmingville, New York, tensions rise in the community after an influx of Mexican immigrants move there for work, which ultimately results in vicious hate crimes.

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Well-Founded Fear

What goes on behind the doors of the asylum office at the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service? If a well-founded fear of persecution is discovered, asylum can be offered.

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Global Immigration

Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Part One - Gold Mountain Dreams

The first of a 3-part series explores the early years of Chinese immigration to the U.S.

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