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Meet the Chin Family

Grades 6 - 12 Social Studies

This comic was originally created in 2014 for the New-York Historical Society exhibition Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion.

Meet the Chin Family has been made available digitally by the Civics for All Comics Group as part of the Hidden Voices: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in United States History project for school year 2023–2024.

This graphic history uses the comic medium to present the story of the Chin family, from the 1850s to the present. It is told from the perspective of Amy Chin, who was born in New York in 1962 and grew up in one of the few Chinese families then living in her Bronx neighborhood. It is the story her mother told her, the family history as she understood it for most of her life, until she began to dig deeply into genealogical records and immigration files. . . .

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