Vocabulary
category of people who identify with each other based on shared cultural traditions, ancestry, language, history, society, or religion.
In the 1800s, why were low wage laborers from China invited to work for low pay in the U.S.?
slavery was abolished
Race is a social or biological construct?
Social
Who was the Third World Liberation Front and what did they do?
United front of student groups from different racial backgrounds; advocated for ethnic studies and an end to the Vietnam War. Created/popularized new racial labels like "Black" and "Asian American". affirmative action.
What sparked the Los Angeles Koreatown Riots of 1992?
The beating of Rodney King and Soon Ja Du's murder of Latasha Harlins.
What is the definition of race?
A label or category based on what you look like
What law led to the first "illegal immigrants" and the creation of a border patrol system?
Chinese Exclusion Act
This is the term to describe when Asian Americans are racialized as a threat to western values.
Yellow Peril
True or false: Asian immigrants are all documented, which thus makes undocumented immigrants from other backgrounds look bad.
False. There are undocumented Asians.
From 1898 to 1934, Filipinos could freely come to the U.S. unlike other Asians. Why?
The Philippines was a colony of the U.S.
What is model minority?
The idea that Asian Americans are inherently smart, successful, and law-abiding.
Which Supreme Court cases determined whether or not Asians are white?
Ozawa vs U.S. (1922) and U.S. vs Thind (1923)
A racial project is an attempt to change or impact how race is defined to ______
organize and distribute resources
The first time the term "model minority" was published in 1966, the New York Times talked positively about Asian Americans and negatively about another group -- who did they talk negatively about and what did they say?
Black Americans; they said if Japanese Americans can succeed despite oppression, so can Black Americans.
When and how was the term "Asian American" created?
Student activists in the 1960s, inspired by the Black Power movement, created the term "Asian American" to unite and empower their community.
what is structural racism?
racism deeply embedded in our society (policies, social norms, institutions)
What did the Page Act say and what was the result?
The law prohibited the immigration of prostitutes from Asia but it ended up banning all Asian women.
This is the term that describes how Asian Americans are racialized as "not American", even if they've lived in the U.S. for generations.
Perpetual Foreigner or Forever Foreigner
What are the two axes in Claire Jean Kim's racial triangulation model?
Superior/Inferior and Foreigner/Outsider
What two events (1940s and 2000s) racialized two different Asian American groups as enemies or terrorists?
WWII racialized Japanese Americans as enemies and 9/11 racialized Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians as terrorists.
What is Asian American Studies?
An analyses of power, structures, and systems that impact Asian Americans and other groups
What immigration policy may have perpetuated the model minority myth?
Immigration Act of 1965 prioritized highly skilled workers to come to the U.S.
What is an example of a group of people who influenced the way they were racialized?
Examples: Creation of whiteness, popularization of "Black" as a label, invention of "Asian American" as a label
What is the fallacy of minority equivalence?
This idea that all minorities experience equal levels of oppression, which perpetuate Anti-Blackness because it puts the blame on Black Americans for not advancing the way some Asian Americans have been able to advance.
H-1B visas a form of simultaneous inclusion and exclusion. Why?
They can come for work, but it's a non-immigrant visa. Permission to stay is tied to work. Difficulties getting Green Card. Spouse/children cannot work.