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CAPE #IAm Campaign 2019 - RECAP Video

2019

CAPE's #IAm Campaign made possible by U.S. Bank celebrates AAPI role models throughout May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPIHM).

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I Was Taught that Therapy Was “Para Locos”—But the Pandemic Pushed Me to See It Differently

Eso es para locos. Esta generación... siempre inventando. These are the words I’d hear anytime I mentioned therapy or mental health growing up.

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Thatiana Diaz
2021
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How Black and Latina Women Prioritized Self-Care During the Pandemic

The pandemic was rough for Black and Latina families, but many women in these communities met the challenges head on.

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Julia Yarbough
2021
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Making Sense of Micronesia: The Logic of Pacific Island Culture

Why are islanders so lavishly generous with food and material possessions but so guarded with information? Why do these people, unfailingly polite for the most part, laugh openly when others embarrass themselves? What does a smile mean to an islander? What might a sudden lapse into silence signify?...

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Francis X. Hezel
2013
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Living for Change

No one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs’s fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. Now with a new foreword by Robin D. G.

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Grace Lee Boggs
2016
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Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.

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Christina Thompson
2020
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Somewhere in the Middle: A Journey to the Philippines in Search of Roots, Belonging, and Identity

Half Filipino but raised in an American household, Deborah Francisco Douglas had always longed to know more about her Filipino heritage.

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Deborah Francisco Douglas
2025
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Our Voices, Our Histories: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women

Our Voices, Our Histories brings together thirty-five Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond.

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Shirley Hune (editor), Gail M. Nomura (editor)
2020
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What’s Missing from the Authenticity Dialogue? Race.

I hear repeatedly that women, people of color, and others whose identities differ from the dominant culture, feel relentless pressure to hide aspects of their identities and conform in order to be accepted, to “fit in,” and to succeed.

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Ritu Bhasin
2016
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Why Focusing on Yourself Is the Real Call to Action During BIPOC Mental Health Month

I’m learning that my challenge isn’t just to unlearn what my family has taught me, but to put myself in situations that would reaffirm the new lessons I was trying to replace the old ones with.

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Vivian Nunez
2020
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4 BIPOC Women on the Power of Saying ‘No’—and Why It’s Essential for Self-Care

A place to start for Black women and women of color looking to reclaim their power.

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Jess Sims
2020
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Well-Being