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This TWLF activist from SFSU was deeply influenced by cross racial solidarity and uplift with Black Americans and heavily emphasizes the importance fo mentorship for individual and community development.
Who is Jeff Mori?
Creation of Ethnic Studies at this school was a much faster and smoother process, due to university administration not wanting a drawn-out and violent repeat of the TWLF and police clashes of their Bay Area counterparts.
What is University of California, Los Angeles?
This concept understands racialization as a two-dimensional process with a "field of racial positions". It understands race beyond the Black/white binary.
What is Racial Triangulation Theory?
This term was created as an alternative to a racist and widespread way to refer to Asians. Beyond referring to a geographic or racial group, this term has "loaded, explosive" political connotations of rejecting outsider labels for this group.
What is Asian American?
This concept was coined by Mao Zedong and popularized in the U.S. by the Black Panther Party. Community-based programs such as the Free Breakfast program exemplified the spirit of this.
What is "Serve the People"?
This TWLF activist dedicated themself to bilingual education and referred to gender roles within the strike as "yin and yang" rather than strict hierarchies and oppositions.
Who is Irene Dea Collier?
These were the 4 fields created as a result of the successful TWLF strikes:
What are African American Studies, American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano/La Raza Studies?
This concept refers to understanding of your own identity as well as how society sees you. For Asian Americans, this translates to understanding that you may be perceived as a foreigner, a model minority, and even a threat (Yellow Peril, Islamophobia, Red Scare). According to the theorist, it is the “sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”
What is Double Consciousness?
This conference of African and Asian countries was held in 1955 in Indonesia to create a Third World of formerly colonized nations beyond the scope of First World (capitalist) countries and Second World (communist) countries.
What is the Bandung Conference?
This concept refers to one's assertion of their own power and free will. According to the U.N., this concept is "based on respect for the principle of equal rights[, and having] the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no interference." This concept was exemplified in the Bandung Conference and the Third World Movement's fight for Ethnic Studies.
What is "self-determination"?
This group heavily influenced the Asian American Movement.
What is the Black Panther Party?
These were created to help low-income, 1st gen students of color access college. These included admissions and retention programs. The philosophy behind these programs was an understanding of the additional barriers underprivileged students may have experienced which affect test scores, grades, and other elements of their admission profiles.
What are Educational Opportunity Programs (EOPs)?
This famous sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist was known for his theory of double-consciousness.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This concept refers to the importance of coalitions and solidarity, thanks to an understanding of the shared experiences of capitalistic exploitation, racial oppression, and imperialism across peoples in the United States.
What is interracialism?
This discourse utilized the imagery of a deadly and fast-spreading disease found in plants to maintain that certain areas were spatially diseased, and therefore must be quickly acted upon to save the rest of the city.
What is Urban Blight/Urban Blight Discourse?
According to Ishizuka, these were the three groups who comprised the Asian American contingent of the TWLF.
Who are the Social Bandits, Talented Tenth, and Over Thirties?
This institute houses the 4 Organized Research Units (ORUs):
What is the Institute of American Cultures (IAC)?
This person founded the Racial Triangulation Theory in 1999.
Who is Claire Jean Kim?
This concept is in dialogue with third worldism and refers to how AsianAm activists are politically inspired by and in solidarity with global movement struggles.
What is internationalism?
The racialized anxieties, fears and hatred towards Asian people as a result of politicized scapegoating of their countries of ethnic origin.
What is Yellow Peril?
These two groups were targeted by the demolition of the I-Hotel. (Be as specific as possible.)
Who are manongs and Chinese elderly bachelors?
These are the official titles of the four ORUs housed in the IAC at UCLA:
What are the American Indian Studies Center, the Asian American Studies Center, Chicano Studies Research Center, and the (Ralph J.) Bunche Center for African American Studies?
This uses cultural or racial grounds to elevate one subordinate group in relation to another. (ex: Model Minority Myth)
What is relative valorization?
Ideology where Asian American, Black, Chicano, and Native activists recognized their struggle was part of multiethnic and multiracial coalitions in the U.S. and abroad:
What is Third Worldism?
This form of segregation was maintained through private actions such as steering, racially-restrictive covenants, and red-lining. Later, the 1949 Housing Act sanctioned these individual and institutionalized practices.
What is California-Style Segregation?