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Teaching Guide, Article Ethnic Studies and Student Solidarity Movement

  • Grade Level 3rd-5th Grade
  • Time Period 1950 - 1969
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Introduction

These resources explore the role of ethnic studies and the student solidarity movement at UC Berkeley, leading to the creation of the term “Asian American.” Students will examine the significance of cross-racial solidarity in the 1969 Third World Liberation Front and its impact on identity, civil rights, and activism.

LESSON PLAN
Noreen Naseem Rodriguez: “The Faces of the Asian American Civil Rights Movement” (Grades 4-6). Includes Richard Aoki’s work and UC Berkeley’s AAPA efforts led by Emma Gee and Yuji Ichioka

RESOURCE SET
UC Berkeley: Center for Race & Gender: “Third World Liberation Front”

ARTICLES
KQED: “50 Years Later, Former UC Berkeley Students Celebrate the Asian-American Movement They Began”
NBC News: “After 50 years of ‘Asian American,’ advocates say the term is ‘more essential than ever’”

Essential Questions

  • Who should be represented in what students study?

  • Who should decide this?

  • Why was it important for student groups at UC Berkeley to work together?

  • Why was the term “Asian American” born out of this movement? What does it represent?