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A story about how immigrants go through coyotes and snakeheads - people who smuggle you in from Mexico and China - to get to the US.
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Chinese workers on the transcontinental railroad went on strike to protest dangerous work at low pay. Lots of photos, including the famous one of placing the last spike. Notice what's missing?
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| CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT |
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The first immigration law to specifically exclude one ethnic group. From Sara Shourd.
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Paper Sons were a way for Chinese immigrants to come to the US after the 1906 SF Earthquake. A good lesson on American-style hustling.
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The Oxnard Strike of 1903 was started by the first interracial farm workers' union in the US, composed of Mexican and Japanese farmworkers.
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The US government sent over 100,000 Japanese-Americans to internment camps in 1942. With a teacher's guide and half page on the back about draft resisters in the camps.
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A short history of Hawaii; how did this island nation deep in the Pacific become a US territory (not state)? With maps.
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| LIFE HERE IS DIFFERENT |
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Life here is different for one Laotian Hmong refugee; compare her life in the US and in rural Laos. From The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.
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