Key Concepts
This idea is conceptualized as markers of how we define ourselves, in any particular moment in life. It can be socially determined or related, ex: race, gender, class.
What is identity?
This Asian American actress was the daughter of a launderer and did not have familial support in her career despite her success.
Who is Anna May Wong?
A socially constructed system where one race or ethnic group believes they are superior over others and utilizes these beliefs to justify the "inferior" racial/ethnic groups' domination and discrimination.
The origin of AAPI acronym/umbrella term.
What is the U.S. Census?
This character often bickered with Chris and had a rocky relationship with him until later in the film.
Who is Vivian (Chris' older sister)?
This framework, coined by scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, is used to analyzed intersecting and multidimensional identities.
What is intersectionality?
This Asian American actor was depicted as a sneaky evildoer who has an ambition to take over the U.S. through military occupation, economic control, and through the possession and defilement of white women.
Who is Sessue Hayakawa?
The belief that the white race is superior over other racial or ethnic groups.
What is white supremacy?
This term is argued to privilege east Asians and erase diverse cultures and particular struggles of various Asian ethnicities.
What is AAPI/Asian American umbrella terms?
Ramy is of this religious and cultural background, associated as the "orient".
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What is Islam and Arab?
The movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland.
What is diaspora?
This legal ban did not allow a particular group of people to enter the U.S. because of varying reasons, and general racist/xenophobic sentiments.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
What are some specific contributions to the enactment of this ban?
This form of illustrative media has been used to spread information, displaying various negative depictions and stereotypes of Asians and Asian Americans historically in the U.S.
What is propaganda?
What kind of depictions were made in "The Propaganda Family Tree"?
Angela Garbes and Cindy Anh Nguyễn write about their mothers' stories and being part of the Filipino and Vietnamese ______.
What is diaspora?
These two characters in Dìdi had a strained relationship regarding how the household was ran.
Who is Chungsing (Chris' mom) and Nai Nai (Chris' grandma)?
The concept of a group of people who have historically been at the top of a socially constructed racial hierarchy. Varying ethnicities accepted into the group has changed over time.
What is whiteness?
This legal case won a guarantee to citizenship for anyone born in the U.S.
What is Yick Wo v. Hopkins 1886?
This assigned material depicts a slideshow with portraits of various AAPI people with an audio on loop.
What is Valerie Soe's "All Orientals Look the Same"?
A sociological phenomenon that refers to the stereotype of certain minority groups (particularly Asian Americans) as successful, and well-adjusted, as demonstrating that there is little or no need for social or economic assistance for the same or different minority groups.
What is the model minority myth/stereotype?
This prop in the episode was used as an analogy between Ramy and Osama bin Laden.
What is strawberries?
An idea that stems from western thought, which depicts those from the "east"/eastern countries as backwards, exotic, and in an overall negative contrast with the west.
What is orientalism?
This coalition group steered the longest student strike (5 months) in U.S. history leading to the advocacy and establishment of a multicultural study in universities. (2 answers)
What is the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) and ethnic studies?
This author wrote a book arguing orientalism was not only a system of political rule but also an all around world view that believed the west was superior to the east.
Who is Edward Said?
Emma Gee and Yuji Ichioka were a part of this UC Berkeley student alliance that implemented the first public use of "Asian American" on a banner.
What is the Asian American Political Alliance?
What is lying?