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What race is Middle Eastern categorized as in the U.S census?
What is white?
In the 18th century, which Asian/Pacific Islander group was the first to settle in the U.S.?
The First Asian American Settlement Was Established by Filipino Fishermen. The fishing village in marshlands of present-day Louisiana was settled by the so-called Manilamen as early as 1763.
The Chinese language has this many characters.
42,000
During World War II, the U.S. government forcibly removed this person to an incarceration site for Japanese Americans. For fifty years, spoke out about oppressive institutions and injustice in the United States. Advocated for the liberation and empowerment of African Americans, Asian Americans, and Puerto Ricans.
Yuri Kochiyama
Which Asian country has the longest life expectancy?
What is Japan?
Representations of Asian and Asian Americans as threatening to take over, invade or otherwise negatively "Asianize" the US nation, society, and culture.
What is Yellow Peril?
The term "Yellow Peril" refers to Western fears that Asians, in particular the Chinese, would invade their lands and disrupt Western values, such as democracy, Christianity, and technological innovation.
Ambiguity in racial classification led to this policy of Asian exclusion by terrain.
What is the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, 1917?
Out of the world's twenty largest cities, how many are in Asia?
14
Who coined term "Asian American"?
Who are Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee?
historian-activists Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee in 1968 during the founding of the Asian American Political Alliance
Which US state has the biggest Asian-American population?
What is California?
The idea that Asians, although experiencing prejudice and discrimination, have overcome these barriers and achieved success.
What is the Model Minority Myth?
What did the 60's Asian American movement grow from
Black Power and anti-Vietnam war movement
Which president signed the first presidential proclamation for Asian/Pacific Heritage Week?
Jimmy Carter (1979)
First Asian American astronaut to go to space
Who is Ellison Onizuka?
What year of the U.S census was Korean removed
1960
The month of May also marks the anniversary of the completion of THIS RAILROAD in 1869, which was constructed by workers who were majority Chinese immigrants.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
In 1862, the Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies, and tasked them with building a transcontinental railroad that would link the United States from east to west.
The country’s first immigration law that singled out an immigrant group for large-scale exclusion based on race.
The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
It suspended immigration of Chinese “skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining” for ten years, and explicitly barred all Chinese people from becoming United States citizens.
This popular animation that is hand-drawn and computer animated, originated from Japan.
What is Anime?
This woman was the Attorney General of California and a United States Senator for the state of California.
Kamala Harris
This singer was born Peter Gene Hernandez on October 8, 1985, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is known for for his stage performances and retro showmanship. You may have heard his last song, Uptown Funk.
Who is Bruno Mars?
What are the six origins that make up 85% of all Asian Americans?
Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese
On October 14, 1914, this person's application for citizenship was denied; they challenged the ruling in the U.S. District Court and again was denied despite the court finding that they “were ‘in every way eminently qualified under the statute to become an American citizen’ except for their race.”
Who is Takao Ozawa?
The Supreme Court rejected Ozawa’s arguments to become a naturalized citizen and ruled “that white was synonymous with Caucasian.” The court stated that because Japanese immigrants were not Caucasian, they could not be white. Thus Ozawa and other Japanese immigrants were denied the right to become citizens.
This area of SF is one of the last three remaining areas of its kind in the United States and has been around for more than 110 years and 5 generations.
San Francisco's Japantown
This famous actress starred in movies such as "Tomorrow Never Dies," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and most recently "Everything Everywhere All at Once"
Michelle Yeoh
This is Japan's most popular spectator sport.
What is babeball?