ASAM & PAACH
Who is the current PAACH director? What was her old role?
Mei Long, she used to be an Associate Director at Wharton undergrad
Which female Asian actress won the Academy Award for Best Actress (and what movie) in 2022?
Michelle Yeoh for her work in EEAAO
This subject was taught for the first time from 1968-69 centered on domestic U.S. concerns. It continues to be part of a national activist effort to increase the political, economic and cultural representation of AAPI communities in American life. What is the name of this subject?
AAPI History
True or False: Hawai’i joined the U.S. after the reigning Queen at the time fell ill and succumbed to disease.
False: The US illegally overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai’i with a coup d’etat and established a provisional government under Sanford B. Dole as a US territory.
What Supreme Court case ruled that Indian residents did not have the right to naturalize even though they were considered caucasian, because they did not fit “the common definition of whiteness”?
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind
When was the first class of APALI formed?
(accepting +/- 2 years)
2001
Which artist made history as the first K-Pop headliner of Coachella?
Blackpink!
Protests led by groups a coalition formed by the Asian American Political Alliance, Latin American Students Organization, Black Student Union, and Native American Student Union, that lasted for 5 months and resulted in violent interactions with police, happened at these 2 colleges and resulted in the teaching of ethnic studies. What were the names of at least 1 of the 2 colleges?
Hint* They’re in California
San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley
This Act was passed in 1882, and was the first law in U.S. immigration history to define immigration as a criminal offense. It prohibited the immigration of new Chinese laborers for 10 years.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Where was the first identified case of COVID-19, the virus that lead to a global pandemic with a rapid rise in AAPI hate crimes globally?
Wuhan, China
In what year was PAACH officially opened? What rally helped provide support?
(accepting +/- 2 years)
2000 (November 11); the SPEAKOUT! Rally
Name the 1993 movie that featured an all-Asian cast and was based off a NYT Bestseller book
Joy Luck Club
In 1979, President Carter issued Presidential Proclamation 4650, speaking of the significant role Asian/Pacific Americans have played in the creation of a dynamic and pluralistic American society with their contributions to the sciences, arts, industry, government and commerce. Over the next ten years, Presidents Carter, Reagan and George H.W. Bush continued to annually issue proclamations designating a week in which month as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week?
May
This ethnic group was the first recorded group of Asian-descent to the United States, arriving at Morro Bay, California. Spanish colonists and merchants referred to them as Manilamen.
Filipinx laborers and sailors in Jan 1, 1587.
The first Chinese sailors arrived on the East coast in 1785, followed by the first Indian immigrants in 1790 after American independence from Britain.
This executive order was signed by President Roosevelt and authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan. Dated February 19, 1942, this order gave the military broad powers to ban any citizen from a fifty- to sixty-mile-wide coastal area stretching from Washington state to California and extending inland into southern Arizona. What’s its name?
Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066
What’s the address of PAACH?
3601 Locust Walk, Suite G22
ARCH Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6224
Which female politician is Indian American and goes by her middle name?
Nimarata Nikki Haley
These were two landmark AAPI films that earned seven Academy Awards and four academy awards, respectively.
Everything Everywhere All At Once and Parasite
What did the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, also known as the Hart-Cellar Act, do?
It was an immigration reform act that reversed years of restrictive policies against Asia, allowing a greater number of immigrants to enter the United States unrestricted by geographic location or origins.
In May 1913, this U.S. state passed the Alien Land Law, prohibiting "aliens ineligible for citizenship" (targeting Asian immigrants) from owning land
What is California?
When was Penn’s ASAM program founded?
(accepting +/- 2 years)
Fall of 1996
What was the name of the first Asian American to be promoted to the main cast of SNL in 45 seasons?
Bowen Yang, the first Asian cast member on Saturday Night Live in 45 seasons, is known for referring to himself as the "Lizzo of China".
This Supreme Court case ruling cemented the citizenship of children born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents (commonly known as birthright citizenship) in 1897.
United States v. Wong Kim Ark
What year was executive order 9066 revoked?
1976
Name the other supreme court case in 1922-1923 that argued over the definition of “whiteness” in its relationship to citizenship within the US?
Ozawa v. United States