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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution is an online exhibition that explores the forced internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II in the wake of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor became the catalyst for challenging the loyalty of all Japanese people living in the US.
Almost 120,000 people of Japanese ancestr…
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Gateway to Gold Mountain traces the experience of more than 175,000 Chinese immigrants who journeyed into America through the Angel Island between 1910 and 1940. These Chinese immigrants were ferried from ships to the insulated Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay, and were greeted by an America far different from the land of opportunity many called “Gold Mountain.”…
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Dreams and Reality: Korean American Contemporary Art Exhibition to Celebrate 100 Years of Korean Immigration to the US is a historic art exhibition that threw open to the audience the impressive works of 18 renowned Korean American artists. These artists were meticulously chosen to share their unique and unparalleled artistic style, reflecting both their Korean heritage and their modern day American and global lif…
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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center presented an exhibition with a display of memorabilia and period photographs, remembering the key role
Japanese American stewardesses played in launching the Jet Age. These Japanese American women were recruited by the Pan American World Airways in 1955 when the airlin…
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Singgalot (The Ties That Bind). Filipinos in America, from Colonial Subjects to Citizens showcases the challenges and issues that confronted Filipinos following the annexation of the Philippines as a U.S. territory in 1898. The Singgalot (The Ties That Bind) was developed by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and was first presented in 2006 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Filipino immigra…
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Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon is a prestigious exhibition dedicated to Vietnamese Americans. It is the first Vietnamese American historical exhibition developed by
Smithsonian Institution Asian Pacific Program and organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service that recounts the Vietnamese American experience in A…
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South Asian Literary and Theater Arts Festival (SALTAF) has emerged as a widely anticipated event at the Smithsonian. The annual festival is jointly presented by the
Smithsonian Asia Pacific American Program and the Washington, DC, chapter of the Network of South Asian Professionals (NetSAP-DC) to celebrate the diversity o…
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Through My Father's Eyes: The Filipino American Photographs of Ricardo Ocreto Alvarado offers a rare collection of 51 black-and-white photographs taken by Ricardo Alvarado (1914-1976) during the 1940s and 50s. These photographs, selected from more than 3,000 negatives, provide an intimate view of Filipino life and history in the United States.
The exhibition offers a visual tour of the Filipino communities in…
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The exhibition,
Miracle Under the Waves: Photographic Art of Akiyoshi Ito puts on view Ito’s impressive collection of color photos of coral reefs from many parts of the world which serve as an inspiration to at least two separate worlds: one is the artistic realm of photography, especially of the world within our oceans; the second is the absolutely critical nature of coral reefs in the world’s ecosystem.
A…
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The
Smithsonian Asia Pacific American Program seeks to build more awareness about the nation's richly diverse
Asian Pacific American communities and provides leadership, vision and support to all its activities. The Smithsonian has hundreds of interesting, photos, objects, artifacts and documents related to
Asia Pacific Americans on display. It also h…
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Added by Chris Harris on June 29, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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