Yellow Peril
The core racist belief that Asian people posed a threat to American society.
What is Yellow Peril?
The year Congress passed the original Chinese Exclusion Act
The December 1941 attack that triggered intense suspicion and fear against Japanese Americans.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The derogatory term used during the pandemic that associated an entire ethnic group with the disease.
What is the "Chinese Virus"?
The term coined and recognized in the late 1960s to unify communities into a collective political identity.
What is "Asian American"?
Yellow Peril stereotyped Asian immigrants as dangerous culturally incompatible with America and this health-related descriptor.
What is being unclean
The U.S. President who signed the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act into law.
Who is Chester A. Arthur
The presidential order signed in February 1942 that authorized military exclusion zones.
What is Executive Order 9066?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, this historical racist ideology and its harmful tropes experienced a widespread resurgence
What is Yellow Peril?
The broader civil rights movement that inspired the rise of Asian American activism in the 1960s.
What is the Black Liberation Movement?
Two domestic fears rooted in Yellow Peril were the spread of disease and competition for these
What are jobs?
The original Chinese Exclusion Act suspended Chinese labor immigration for this initial duration.
What is 10 years?
The approximate number of people of Japanese ancestry, including American citizens, who were forcibly removed and incarcerated in camps.
What is 120,000?
Even if individuals had no association with China, people were targeted regardless of their actual this.
What is nationality?
The decade during which the collective political identity of "Asian American" became recognized
What are the late 1960s?
eyond economic and health fears, Yellow Peril stoked fears of a possible takeover involving these two areas.
What are political or military takeovers?
This 1892 legislation extended the restrictions of the 1882 Act and imposed additional requirements on Chinese residents.
What is the Geary Act?
Rather than any evidence of disloyalty, this single factor was used to justify the forced removal and incarceration of individuals.
What is Japanese ancestry?
The act of unfairly blaming Asian Americans for causing the virus and spreading the pandemic.
What is scapegoating?
Beyond racial stereotypes and unequal treatment, Asian American activists mobilized to challenge these types of government policies.
What are exclusionary policies?
In the minds of many, Yellow Peril stereotypes served to justify both discrimination and these official government measures.
What are racist immigration policies?
After being renewed in 1902, the immigration restrictions against Chinese laborers were made indefinite in this year.
What is 1904?
The prominent segregated U.S. military combat team composed of Japanese Americans whose service challenged assumptions about their loyalty.
What is the 442nd Regimental Combat Team?
The two direct outcomes Asian Americans faced during the pandemic as a result of scapegoating and rhetoric.
What are increased hostility and discrimination?
A primary achievement of the Asian American activist movement was raising awareness and drawing national attention to these two aspects of the community.
What are Asian American experiences and history?