Yellow Peril
Chinese immigrants were often portrayed as these mythical beings in political cartoons.
Vampires
These militarized zones in the Philippines (but eventually spreading to other U.S. bases) catered to the needs of U.S. personnel in the form of bars, brothels, and massage parlors.
Camptowns
This Chinese-American film star was often assigned "exotic" supporting roles due to her race.
Anna May Wong
He openly defied Japanese American internment and took his case all the way to the Supreme Court.
Gordon Hirabayashi
This term means fear towards the foreign, usually towards immigrants.
Xenophobia
This image was commissioned by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany depicts "civilized nations" confronting _________
"yellow peril"
Okihiro uses these terms to refer to mixed-race Asian Americans.
Hapas and Amerasians
In the aftermath of 9/11, this religious group was targeted because they were being mistaken for Muslims.
Sikhs
This experimental film uses poetic narrative and found images to discuss the trauma of Japanese internment.
History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige
This army unit comprised of Japanese Americans was the most decorated unit in the history of the US military.
442nd Infantry Regiment
Roughly ___ of Japanese Americans who were sent to internment camps were American citizens.
2/3
This act allowed admission to the U.S. of "alien spouses and alien children of citizen members of the United States armed forces."
The War Brides Act of 1945
This newspaper, started by Asian American students at UCLA, covered issues affecting the Asian American community.
Gidra
The film "Sentenced Home" discusses how this group faced the threat of deportation.
Cambodian refugees
This executive order, also known as _________, "protects the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the US."
Travel ban or Muslim ban
This term was coined by Andrew Carnegie and asserts that hard work and perseverance lead to wealth.
"Gospel of Wealth"
This narrative celebrates WWII, but "neglects the racial fault lines and social upheavals at home that were exposed by the global conflict."
The "Good War"
This system required men over the age of 16 from Middle Eastern countries (and some Asian countries) to register if they were residing in the US.
The National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) or INS Special Registration
Why was Vincent Chin attacked? What ethnicity did Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz assume Chin to be, and what is the context behind their anger?
They assumed that Chin was Japanese, and blamed him/the Japanese for the success of Japan's auto industry and decline of the American auto industry.
This is an analytical framework for understanding "how aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege."
Intersectionality
This 1920 book describes the collapse of white supremacy and colonialism because of the population growth among "people of color", rising nationalism in colonized nations, and industrialization in China and Japan.
The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy
This act declared that Guam would remain an unincorporated U.S. territory, but granted them a civilian government.
Organic Act of 1950
Muslims in the US are demographically split between these three groups.
Arab, South Asian, and Black
In the film "Reel Bad Arabs," how does Jack Shaheen describe the portrayal of Arab women in films?
Free response - Arab women in films are either bellydancers or faceless, anonymous shapes in black robes. More recently Arab women are also portrayed as terrorists.
Why is the myth of the model minority harmful?
Free response