Era of Exclusion
What did Executive Order 9066 do?
incarceration of Japanese Americans
Ref. Takaki's "Strangers from a Different Shore"
Did Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X provide greater inspiration for the AA Movement?
Malcom X
Ref. "The Asian American Movement" Lecture
What were the provision of the Geneva Accords of 1954? Which countries refused to abide by it?
Ref. "Refugee Migration and Adjustment in the US" lecture
Give at least two differences between an “immigrant” and a “refugee"
reasons for migration
resources
time to prepare for journey
What are anti-miscegenation laws?
State laws that criminalized interracial marriage
What was the result of the Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 (win/lose) and what was the long-term consequence?
Result - lost
Long term consequence - cross-racial solidarity and organizing
Ref. "History of Protest" Lecture
Explain why Asian Americans labeled the Vietnam War as racist
Ref. "The Asian American Movement" Lecture
Explain "resettlement" policy
Ref. Bankston & Hildago's "The Waves of War"
What was the social composition of the Filipino first wave of immigration?
laborers, students
What were the Asian ethnic groups that made up the early immigration (5)?
Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Indian (South Asian)
What were loyalty questionnaires and what two questions were particularly difficult to answer?
Questions 27 & 28
ref. Takaki's "Strangers from a Different Shore"
What were at least 2 of the issues faced by the Asian American community in the 1980s?
Anti-Asian violence (Vincent Chin)
English-only movement
Campaign for redress, reparations
Racial stereotyping in film and the service industry
Racial profiling
Name at least three of the important consequences of the 1965 Immigration Act for the Asian American community
Ref. "Immigration Act 1965" Lecture
What does Rhacel Parreñas’ term “commodification of love” mean?
Ref. Parreñas' “New Household Forms"
Provide 2 reasons why Asian immigration into the United States is not “new,” but old
Coming of Chinese to Mexico through the galleon trade in 16th century
Manilamen arriving in Louisiana in 18th century
Indian and Chinese traders arriving in northeast United States via “China trade” of late 18th century
importation of Indian and Chinese “coolies” into the Caribbean and Latin America in early 19th century
Why was there a major difference in U. S. treatment of Japanese Americans in Hawai`i as opposed to the mainland United States? Explain.
ref. Takaki's "Strangers from a Different Shore"
Explain the tactics of the corporate counter-offensive during the 1970s and 1980s
Economic reanalysis - loans instead of grants
Pushed for reduction in social spending and deregulation
Ref. Omatsu's "The Four Prisons"
What were the four principal provisions of the 1965 Immigration Act?
Ref. "Immigration Act 1965" Lecture
Give at least two causes for high rates of poverty among the Hmong
Ref. "Hmong Americans" lecture
What were the Supreme Court rulings about race and citizenship on Ozawa (1922) and Thind (1923) cases?
Ref. "History of Exclusion" lecture
Discuss Wong Kim Ark vs. US 1898:
Why did the district attorney prevent Wong from entering the United States on his second trip back from China?
How did Supreme Court rule on the case? What constitutional right was affirmed through this case?
How long did this case take?
ref. "History of Protest Lecture"
What were the two principal philosophical demands of the San Francisco State Strike and what do they mean?
Relevant education, self-determination
Ref. "The Asian American Movement" lecture & Umemoto's "On Strike"
What were the four important provisions of the Refugee Act of 1980?
Ref. "Refugee Migration and Adjustment" lecture
Define "transnationalism" (include the four main aspects to the definition)
“rather than a series of parallel or
subsequent one-way population streams,
both the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ immigrations
to the United States have been part of an
ongoing process of back-and-forth
exchanges of technology, capital, and
labor, structurally linking different parts of
the world in an extended transnational
macrosystem."
Ref. "Transnational Filipino Families" lecture
How are early Asian and European immigrants supposed to be similar in their experiences? How do they differ?
Ref. "History of Exclusion" Lecture