Traced back to Southern China and the clannish nature of Chinese culture, family associations play a unique role in U.S. Chinatowns. During the Chinese Exclusion Act and in times of extreme discrimination, family associations were not simply a social haven. They provided work and housing...

Neil Chin recalls Chinatown during the Depression, when bootlegging was a form of economic survival. He vividly recounts his encounter, at nine years of age, with police who arrived to break up his mother’s moonshine distillery. Using a sensationalistic old-time newsreel aesthetic, the video...

Poem by Louise Borden. I've added images to make a movie illustrating the poem. This is the chapter 1 opener poem for the 4th grade Harcourt Social Studies text.

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