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ERIC Number: EJ1452331
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 8
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1056-0300
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Who's behind the Camera? Frank Matsura, Shoki Kayamori, and Anticolonial Visualization of "Westward Expansion"
Sohyun An
Social Studies and the Young Learner, v37 n2 p11-18 2024
In this article, Sohyun An presents a lesson that she was invited to teach at an elementary school in Georgia for the celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. As a social studies teacher educator and mother of Asian American children attending the school, she has worked with some of the teachers to advance critical social studies education. The lesson she designed and taught centered on two Japanese immigrants, Frank Matsura (1873-1913) and Shoki Kayamori (1877-1941). Matsura and Kayamori migrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s and settled in Washington and Alaska, respectively. They embedded themselves in the communities of Indigenous peoples, white settlers, and other migrant workers and became photographers, recording the daily lives of the people. She chose Matsura and Kayamori because their stories and photographs address "westward expansion," a topic that the fifth graders had already learned about in previous social studies lessons. She also chose them because their stories provide a powerful counterstory to the narratives at the time.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Georgia
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