Queer South Asian Americans
These are the three main forms of discrimination that queer South Asian Americans experience:
What are racism, homophobia, and transphobia?
This epidemic in the United States also coincided with a surge of queer activism and reclamation of the word "queer" by community activists.
What is the HIV/AIDs epidemic?
This form of bias is unique because in addition to referring to the suspicion and fear of a particular religion, it also refers to the suspicion and fear of Muslims, and anyone who “looks” Muslim - it is both religiously and racially based
What is Islamophobia?
This person's Supreme Court Case established that birthright citizenship was also guaranteed to non-white and non-Black individuals.
Who is Wong Kim Ark?
This word, coined by professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, helps describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics interact with one another and overlap in one's individualized walk of life. This word helps us to understand the unique experiences of Queer South Asian Americans.
What is intersectionality?
In the U.S. in the early 1900s, the word "queer" was used as a slur against the individuals who engaged in 2 types of "non-normative" behaviors for American society at the time. Describe these 2 behaviors which were considered "non-normative":
What are cross-dressing and having non-heterosexual romantic or sexual activity?
These two types of people with visible markers of faith have been targeted post-9/11 for looking the way some people think a Muslim looks. (I'm looking for specific terms/responses!)
Who are hijabis and Sikh men who wear turbans?
This is the name of the organization which emerged along the Pacific Coast of the U.S. and Canada in 1905 and worked towards blocking the immigration of Asians into the U.S. and Canada. For Asians who had already arrived in the U.S. and Canada, this group petitioned legislators to prevent their full integration into society.
What was the Asiatic Exclusion League?
Queer South Asian Americans struggle with balancing these two spheres of their lives:
What are their cultural backgrounds and sexual orientation and/or gender identity?
These are two of the ramifications of the HIV and AIDs pandemic on the queer community that we discussed in class:
What are a lost generation of queer elders and significant delays in queer activism in the United States?
This group of Asian Americans (that is not targeted by post-9/11 bias) extends their solidarity to those targeted by post-9/11 bias due to their strong understanding of and history with racial scapegoating
Who are Japanese Americans?
This is the name given to Japanese American men who answered "no" to questions 27 and 28 of the "Loyalty Questionnaire" disseminated throughout their concentration camps in 1943 out of principle and pride. The questions raised confusion, resentment, and anger, as they asked if respondents would be 1) willing to serve in the U.S. armed forces on combat duty and if they would 2) swear allegiance to the U.S. and forswear any allegiance to the Japanese emperor or any other foreign government.
Who are the no-no boys?
This is the name of the queer South Asian American organization in Chicago which succeeded (came after) Sangat.
(Hint 1: it is 2 words)
(Hint 2: the second word is "Chicago")
What is Trikone Chicago?
These are 3 responses of Gay Vietnamese American men to sexual racism:
What are self-orientalization, disavowing Asianness, "sticky rice" dating, calling out racism and sexual racism within the gay community, ignoring or removing themselves from situations, and forming Asian queer organizations
This acronym emerged after 9/11 to describe the way this group of people were all racialized as "Muslim" in the "War on Terror". --Need to say the acronym as well as what each letter stands for in order to get full points!
This man, along with Larry Itliong, was one of the two Filipino leaders of the Delano Grape Strike.
Who is Philip Vera Cruz?