Approach to the Bridge of Spain in the New Town, Manila, 1899
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The Crime That Wasn't Called Sodomy

In the American Philippines, officials used vagrancy laws to police same-sex relations while avoiding explicit bans.
Mei Lan-fang in stage costume, dressed as a woman.
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How Race Shaped New York’s View of Chinese Opera

In 1930s New York, Chinese opera was praised uptown but mocked in Chinatown.
Vietnamese child on the cover of "Vietnam: The Boat People Search for a Home."
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How 1980s Children’s Books Framed Vietnamese Refugees

Children’s books introduced Vietnamese refugees to US readers, often simplifying their histories and experiences.
A Chinese American woman riveter at work.
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Could “Rosie the Riveter” Be Chinese American?

Despite having their citizenship withheld before the war, Chinese American women in the Bay Area made significant contributions to the wartime labor force.
Battleship NEW YORK at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard dry dock, Bremerton, Washington, 1914
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Postcolonial Pacific: The Story of Philippine Seattle

The growth of Seattle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is inseparable from the arrival of laborers from the US-colonized Philippines.
Mexican-American wife standing with her hand on the shoulder of her seated Punjabi husband.
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The “Mexican-Hindus” of Rural California

Anti-Asian immigration restrictions led male Punjabi farm workers in California to marry Mexican and Mexican American women, creating new cultural bonds.
Painting of abstract lines obscuring faces on the cover of "Feeling Asian American" by Wen Liu.
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Racial Hierarchies: Japanese American Immigrants in California

The belief of first-generation Japanese immigrants in their racial superiority over Filipinos was a by-product of the San Joaquin Delta's white hegemony.
"A Grain of Sand" record
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Charting the Music of a Movement

Galvanized by an act of racial violence, the band A Grain of Sand brought a new version of Asian American activism and identity to the folk music scene.