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Throughout history, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have contributed to the growth and incredible diversity of this country; they have continually inspired generations with their resilience and creativity. Understand the long road and hurdles they've traversed to make a new life on foreign shores, and explore the many ways that Asian Americans have become integral parts of this nation's social fabric, from arts and culture to politics and governance.

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Syed and Qaiser with their children Qamar and Faozia in front of a home in Los Angeles. | Shades of L.A. Collection / LAPL

Syed and Qaiser with their children Qamar and Faozia in front of a home in Los Angeles. | Shades of L.A. Collection / LAPL

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Asian Americans

Multifaceted: The Cultural Diversity of Asian America

Arts & Culture

Artbound

Animated Series 'City of Ghosts' Explores L.A.'s Rich Histories for Kids

Artbound

Masters of Modern Design

ICE Not Welcome poster | Audrey Chan, ACLU SoCal

ICE Not Welcome poster | Audrey Chan, ACLU SoCal

Southland Sessions

ACLU SoCal’s First Artist-in-Residence on Creating Art During a Fraught Time

Artbound

Isamu Noguchi: A Voluntary Stay at the Japanese American Internment Camp

Adult art classes learning freehand brush strokes. | Dorothea Lange, War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement / National Archives ABs10 MMD

Adult art classes learning freehand brush strokes. | Dorothea Lange, War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement / National Archives ABs10 MMD

Artbound

Art and the Creation of a Resilient Japanese American Spirit

Swank One at "Don't Believe the Hype"

Swank One at "Don't Believe the Hype"

Artbound

Hip-Hop as Resistance: Exhibition Explores Contributions by Asian-Americans

Ahree Lee, "Permutation" still

Ahree Lee, "Permutation" still

Artbound

We Are More Similar Than We Realize: Interconnecting Identities in the Work of Ahree Lee

Something in the Water: Hip Hop History in Cerritos

Judy Sugita and other Nisei Week Queen candidates at a campaign event in 1953 | Photo courtesy of Judy Sugita

Judy Sugita and other Nisei Week Queen candidates at a campaign event in 1953 | Photo courtesy of Judy Sugita

Departures

Photographs of Nisei Queens Through the Years

A young man holds his hands up in a portrait drawn on wood by Shizu Saldamando.

A young man holds his hands up in a portrait drawn on wood by Shizu Saldamando.

Artbound

Counter Cliché: The Asian and Latino Bi-Cultural Experience

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Departures

Tuesday Night Cafe: A Night Born Out of Activism

Community

Syed and Qaiser with their children Qamar and Faozia in front of a home in Los Angeles. | Shades of L.A. Collection / LAPL

Syed and Qaiser with their children Qamar and Faozia in front of a home in Los Angeles. | Shades of L.A. Collection / LAPL

Asian Americans

Multifaceted: The Cultural Diversity of Asian America

Uncle Van Huynh's mother sews masks for the Auntie Sewing Squad. | Courtesy of Van Huynh

Uncle Van Huynh's mother sews masks for the Auntie Sewing Squad. | Courtesy of Van Huynh

Southland Sessions

Auntie Sewing Squad Bonds Multiple Generations Together to Fight COVID-19

Jocelyn Yow with her family in Malaysia. | Courtesy of Jocelyn Yow

Jocelyn Yow with her family in Malaysia. | Courtesy of Jocelyn Yow

Asian Americans

The Changing Demographics of Asian Americans

A volunteer delivered a supply bag under social distancing guidelines. | Sophat Phea/CCED Organizer via LAist

A volunteer delivered a supply bag under social distancing guidelines. | Sophat Phea/CCED Organizer via LAist

A Grassroots Chinatown Group Looks Out For Its Seniors

A customer at Vicky's Nail Salon receives a manicure in Alameda, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. | Alison Yin for KCET

A customer at Vicky's Nail Salon receives a manicure in Alameda, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. | Alison Yin for KCET

City Rising

When Nail Salon Workers Organize, Customers Also Benefit

Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, STS-107 mission specialist, prepares to simulate a parachute drop into water during an emergency bailout training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. | Flickr/NASA Johnson/Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, STS-107 mission specialist, prepares to simulate a parachute drop into water during an emergency bailout training session in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. | Flickr/NASA Johnson/Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0)

A Woman's Place is in Space: Meet Eight Asian American Women Reaching for the Stars

Departures

How Chinese Entrepreneurs Transformed the San Gabriel Valley

From Villa to Pacquiao: Filipino Boxing in L.A. and the Power of a Transnational Punch

Filing the Lane, Here and Abroad: Filipino American Identity and Basketball

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Masculinity, Femininity, and Asian American Basketball in 20th Century California

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Departures

Anzen Hardware in Little Tokyo a Winning Institution

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Departures

Bunkado: First and Last Record Store in Little Tokyo

Human Profiling-Annex One, 2010.

Human Profiling-Annex One, 2010.

Samoan Angeleno: Culture & Identity in Los Angeles

Food

Broken Bread

Making vegetarian bánh chưng with peanuts | Sri Panchalam

Making vegetarian bánh chưng with peanuts | Sri Panchalam

The Migrant Kitchen

Keeping A Tasty Lunar New Year Tradition Alive with The Bánh Chưng Collective

Mister Jiu's Waverly entrance | Courtesy of Mister Jiu's featured

Mister Jiu's Waverly entrance | Courtesy of Mister Jiu's featured

The Migrant Kitchen

The Ever-Shifting Future and Flavor of San Francisco’s Chinatown

Chef Brandon Jew | Antonio Diaz MKs3

Chef Brandon Jew | Antonio Diaz MKs3

The Migrant Kitchen

Mister Jiu's Chinatown

Pho | Pho Hoa

The Migrant Kitchen

Vietnamese Immigration and Its Culinary Influence on the United States

China Cafe sign at Grand Central Market | Samanta Hernandez Helou

China Cafe sign at Grand Central Market | Samanta Hernandez Helou

The Migrant Kitchen

One of the Best Wonton Soups in the City is Hiding in Plain Sight

Chase Valencia: LASA Unit 120

Chase Valencia: LASA Unit 120

The Migrant Kitchen

How Traders, Travelers and Colonization Shaped Filipino Cuisine

History

Japanese American internment (featured)

Japanese American internment (featured)

Artbound

'No More Japanese Wanted Here': When Japanese Americans Were Forced Into Internment Camps

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Chinese Massacre thimbnail

Lost LA

The Chinese Massacre: One of Los Angeles' Worst Atrocities

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The Magic Washer (thumbnail)

Lost LA

Before It Embraced Immigrants, California Championed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Former WWII Era Internment Camp Preserved As Manzanar National Historic Site

Former WWII Era Internment Camp Preserved As Manzanar National Historic Site

Link Voices

Internment, Immigrant Detention, and the Imagined Imperiled Whiteness of U.S. Citizenship

A Community Erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the San Gabriel Valley

Asian Americans

Exclusionary Laws and the Chinese-American Experience

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FilipinoAmericanHistory1

Filipino American History, 425 Years and Counting

Black and white photo of Chinese squid fishermen drying out squid in Monterey, California.

Black and white photo of Chinese squid fishermen drying out squid in Monterey, California.

Olfactory Racism in the United States Has a Very Old Stench

The working conditions of the El Monte sweatshop operation in 1995, following a raid by state and federal agencies. | Photo: Philip Bonner

The working conditions of the El Monte sweatshop operation in 1995, following a raid by state and federal agencies. | Photo: Philip Bonner

20 Years Later, Thai Ex-Sweatshop Workers Reflect on Freedom From Slavery

House Expresses Regret for Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882