Asian American Founding Fathers & Mothers: -1980s

Book illustration for RISE: a Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now  by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu & Philip Wang (Harper Books). Asian-American politicians and activists are placed in a pastiche of historical and iconic paintings such as Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, the Resignation of General George Washington by John Trumbull Four Freedoms (Freedom of Speech & Freedom of Worship) by Norman Rockwell.

Asian-American figures illustrated here:
Chin Foo Wong
Rep. Dalip Singh Saund
Benito Legarda & Pablo Ocampo
Sen. Hiram Fong
Sen. Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
Philip Jaisohn
Ahn Changho
Philip Vera Cruz & Larry Itliong
Young-oak Kim
442nd Regiment/100th Battalion
Sakharam Ganesh Pandit
Thomas Yatabe
Sen. Daniel Inouye
Spark Matsunaga
Fred Korematsu, Minoru Yasui & Gordon Hirabayashi
Yuri Kochiyama
Grace Lee Boggs
Sirdar Jagjit Singh
Marii Hasegawa
Tsuyako "Sox" Kitashima
Mitsuye Endo
Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga
Kiyoshi Kuromiya
K. W. Lee
Thelma Buchholdt
Yuji Ichioka & Emma Gee
K. L. Wang

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