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Interview with Shannon Yip, retired Oakland educator, bilingual education champion, and Chinese folk dance proponent
Part One: Making Bilingual Education a Reality in Oakland, California, Public Schools Introduction. Shannon is a multi-generational Chinese American. Born in San Francisco, she attended Oakland Senior High School and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. Brought up in the ‘50s/’60s within a community of Chinese immigrants supporting…
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NO! THERE WERE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN AMERICA, THAT IS THE TRUTH!
I was in the first or maybe second grade; 6 or 7 years old. A group of us in the schoolyard. My parents and other relatives moved from Poston, Arizona to the inner city of Denver. So, this group in the playground was lower working class made-up with Blacks, Mexicans,…
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Richard Aston’s Views From Gold Mountain: History, Memory and Voices
Views From Gold Mountain: History, Memory, Voices Richard Aston | 2019 / Sixth Avenue Books Review by Steve Yip | Originally published April 20, 2022 | MainlyPiano.com Views From Gold Mountain by Richard Aston is self-published and it’s clearly a labor of love. The book is both a brief, though incomplete memoir…
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Interview with Richard Aston
Interview conducted by Steve Yip with Richard Aston, author of the book Views from Gold Mountain.
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Introducing “Not Fade Away”
The Not Fade Away Preserving Overlooked AAPI Experiences Project works to ensure potentially forgotten Asian American history and social movements’ stories are adequately preserved and accessible through oral history documentation. Please Note: This project is currently NOT funded. Contact Us: E-mail: aapihistory@email.com Phone: 347-674-0924 Volunteers and Interns are…
Latest Posts:
- Interview with Shannon Yip, retired Oakland educator, bilingual education champion, and Chinese folk dance proponent
- NO! THERE WERE CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN AMERICA, THAT IS THE TRUTH!
- Richard Aston’s Views From Gold Mountain: History, Memory and Voices
- Interview with Richard Aston
- Introducing “Not Fade Away”
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