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Book Meet the Chin Family

  • Grade Level 6th-12th Grade
  • Time Period Late 1800s - Early 1900s, 1970 - Present
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Introduction

This comic was created in 2014 for the New York Historical Society exhibition Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion. _Meet the Chin Family _has been made available digitally by the _Civics for All Comics Group _as part of the _Hidden Voices: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in United States History _project for the school year 2023–2024.This graphic history uses the comic medium to present the story of the Chin family, from the 1850s to the present. It is told from the perspective of Amy Chin, who was born in New York in 1962 and grew up in one of the few Chinese families living in her Bronx neighborhood. It is the story her mother told her, the family history as she understood it for most of her life until she began to dig deeply into genealogical records and immigration files.

Essential Questions

  • How have Asian Americans pursued and fought for full citizenship and equality in United States history?