They Called Us Enemy
This graphic memoir from actor, author, and activist George Takei recounts his childhood incarcerated in Japanese American internment camps during World War II.
![Little boy holding a suitcase while waiting in line at an intermittent camp](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-10/They-Called-Us-Enemy_cover%20%281%29%20%281%29_0.jpeg?h=1353eda4&itok=dXv08QSl)
Global Migration Vocabulary Terms
Use this vocabulary list to help students better understand and talk about global migration.
![Venezuelan citizens wait to receive their temporary residence status at the immigration office in Lima, Peru.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/2018_ImmigrationOfficeinLima_FH289808.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=h5QGJSZm)
Six Questions for Jose Antonio Vargas
Students use these questions to guide their viewing of a TED Talk about the experience of an immigrant from the Philippines.
![Venezuelan citizens wait to receive their temporary residence status at the immigration office in Lima, Peru.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/2018_ImmigrationOfficeinLima_FH289808.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=h5QGJSZm)
Responses to Migrants in Chiapas and Veracruz
Students analyze the actions of a character in the memoir Enrique's Journey.
![Photo of Central American Migrants.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/WhyDoPeopleMigrate_RTX70WND_fullres_Medium_res.jpg?h=958cf23b&itok=KYhL_IVP)
Challenging the Single Story of Migrants
Students use the ideas in Chimamanda Adichie’s TED Talk to reflect on the stories told about migrants.
![A woman sitting in a full waiting area looks at her passport.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/2018_ImmigratioinOfficeinLima_FH289808.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=j9-Gqh5y)
Civic Agency and the Pursuit of Democracy
This elective, designed for New York’s Seal of Civic Readiness, intertwines the history of US Reconstruction, current events, and civic participation.
![Student speaking into microphone](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-08/IMG_2589.jpg?h=7d6ffc47&itok=GDIn4Fpw)
Empire of Dreams (1880-1942)
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Part two of Latino Americans documents how the American population begins to be reshaped by the influx of Cubans, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans from 1880 into the 1940s.
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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
Watch the 3-part series that explores the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act
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Excerpts from “Board of Education: Chinese Mother Letter”, Daily Alta California, 1885
Mary Tape, a Chinese American who fought in court for her children to go to school with white children, wrote this letter to the San Francisco Board of Education in 1885.
![This photograph of the Tape family shows Mamie in the center.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-06/Tape_family.jpg?h=f58e46b7&itok=KNSF5ACq)
Excerpts from “Board of Education: Chinese Mother Letter”, Daily Alta California, 1885 (en español)
Mary Tape, a Chinese American who fought in court for her children to go to school with white children, wrote this letter to the San Francisco Board of Education in 1885.
![This photograph of the Tape family shows Mamie in the center.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-06/Tape_family.jpg?h=f58e46b7&itok=KNSF5ACq)
Excerpts from “Andrew G. Imutan 1965-1974,” Essays by UFW Volunteers Collection
Andrew Imutan recounts the proceedings of a 1965 Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee meeting that led to the Delano grape workers strike.
![Photograph shows farm workers and supporters of the United Farm Workers (UFW) during the Peregrinacion (Pilgrimage), a 340 mile march from Delano to the steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento, California.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-03/MarchDelano.jpg?h=1d36f27a&itok=anUjEBgC)