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New audio downloads made possible by a Professional Development grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council
$4.95 - Download Crossing East - Program One: First Contacts
International trade brought early Asian travelers to the Americas. Crossing East brings you the untold stories of quests for gold and adventures as well as hardships in the new land.
$4.95 - Download Crossing East - Program Two: Frontier Asians
The legacy of the frontier is the towns, farms and ranches settled by Asian Americans. Crossing East features the early West with miners, buckaroos, farmers and doctors.
$4.95 - Download Crossing East - Program Three: Raising Cane
Settlers and missionaries turned Hawaiians into workers and the islands into plantations. Crossing East weaves a cross-cultural tale through music, descendant histories and sounds of Hawaii.
$4.95 - Download Crossing East - Program Four: Exclusion & Resistance
Keep Asians Out – that has been the consistent message toward Asian immigrants beginning with the Exclusion Act of 1882. Crossing East accounts immigration laws designed specifically to restrict Asian Americans.
$4.95 - Download Crossing East - Program Five: Brides & Children
Wars create poverty conditions and dispossessed women and children. Many Asian women married American service men and many Asian children were adopted and sent to the U.S.
$4.95 - Download Crossing East - Program Six: The Post '65 Generation
The Immigration Act of 1965, allowed Asian family members, entrepreneurs and skilled workers to immigrate to the U.S. Crossing East shows how each Asian group offered their expertise and skills to a burgeoning economy.
$4.95 - Download Crossing East - Program Seven: Refuge From War
The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War caused devastation throughout Southeast Asia and brought families who had no choice but to seek a new life in America. Crossing East highlights a time of war and resettlement and examines differences in backgrounds of Southeast Asian refugees.
$4.95 - Download Crossing East - Program Eight: New Waves, New Storms
With economic downturns and tragic events comes violence and revision of immigration laws – particularly toward Asian Americans – who fight back with grassroots organization. Crossing East sheds light on current discriminatory treatment against Asian Americans and what we can learn from past mistakes.
