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Barriers to Bridges is a new exhibition which was unveiled at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) on November 21, 2008. This artifact case offers glimpses of a rich history of Asian Americans from the 19th century to the present.
The immigration process for Americans of Asian Pacific descent was never easy. Asians were initially tolerated, along with other immigrants, but resentment and racial tensions… Continue

The Smithsonian Asia Pacific America Program hosted Japanese American National Museum’s exhibition From Bento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawaii that explores the evolution of Japanese American identity in multicultural Hawaii as seen through the eyes of the first generation to the present.
From Bento to Mixed Plate was… Continue

Fly to Freedom: The Art of the Golden Venture Refugees is a traveling exhibition hosted by the Smithsonian’s Arts & Industries Building and produced by the New York-based Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA) from June 8-September 30, 2001.
Fly to Freedom traces how the ship, Golden Ven… Continue

Kaho’olawe: Ke Aloha Kupa’a I Ka’Aina (Steadfast Love of the Land), tells a tale of how one of Hawaii’s islands became degraded and was subsequently rescued and revitalized through a sustained spiritual, cultural, and political awakening of the Native Hawaiian people and their allies.
Kaho’olawe traces the culture, spiritual practices and political aspirations of the native Hawaiians by focusing on… Continue

On Gold Mountain: A Chinese American Experience captures the story of the Chinese in America through the six-generation odyssey of a Chinese American family, who originally immigrated to California in 1867 and whose members have lived and worked in Los Angeles from 1897 to the present.
This exhibition is based on a book by Lisa See, whose family has a long and prominent history in Los Angeles. Members of the See fam… Continue