Exclusion and Law
This 1882 legislation was the first major U.S. law to bar a specific ethnic group from immigrating.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Signed by FDR, this 1942 order authorized the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This term describes the 19th-century "society" of Chinese men who lived without families due to exclusion laws.
What is a Bachelor Society?
This sociopolitical myth, popularized in the 1960s, suggests all Asian Americans are universally successful and self-sufficient.
What is the Model Minority Myth?
This term refers to the social construct that categorizes people based on perceived physical differences, such as skin color or hair texture.
What is race?
This 1875 law effectively barred Chinese women from entering the U.S. by labeling them as "immoral."
What is the Page Act?
This all-Japanese American military unit became the most decorated in U.S. history for its size and length of service.
What is the 442nd Regimental Combat Team?
Following the Fall of Saigon in 1975, thousands of Southeast Asians fled their countries by this method.
Who are the "Boat People"?
His 1982 murder in Detroit sparked a nationwide pan-Asian American civil rights movement.
Who is Vincent Chin?
In 1968 a student-led coalition at this northern California university went on strike to demand the creation of an Ethnic Studies department.
What is San Francisco State University?
In this 1898 case, the Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the U.S. to Chinese parents is a citizen by birth.
What is United States v. Wong Kim Ark?
This 1913 California law was designed to prevent Japanese farmers from owning land.
What is the Alien Land Law?
Asian sailors from this country were the first to reach the America, while working with the Spanish.
What is the Philippines
This metaphor describes the unseen barriers that prevent Asian Americans from reaching executive leadership roles.
What is the Bamboo Ceiling?
This analytical framework examines how various social identities—such as race, gender, and class—overlap to create unique modes of discrimination.
What is Intersectionality?
This 1907 informal agreement between the U.S. and Japan sought to limit the immigration of Japanese laborers.
What is the Gentleman’s Agreement?
He challenged the constitutionality of internment all the way to the Supreme Court in 1944 and lost.
Who is Fred Korematsu?
This 1946 act gave Indians and Filipinos the right to naturalize as U.S. citizens.
What is the Luce-Celler Act?
This late 19th-century racist concept portrayed Asian immigrants as a threat to Western civilization.
What is the Yellow Peril?
This term describes the systematic distribution of resources, power, and opportunity in a society to the benefit of one group over others, often baked into laws and policies.
What is Institutional (or Systemic) Racism?
In wha tyear did the Hart Celler Act finally abolished the discriminatory national-origins quota system.
What is 1965?
This 1988 law provided a formal apology and $20,000 in reparations to surviving internment camp detainees.
What is the Civil Liberties Act of 1988?
This 1980 act created a formal process for domestic resettlement and raised the ceiling for refugee entries.
What is the Refugee Act of 1980?
This "Identity" refers to different Asian ethnic groups uniting to advocate for shared political and social interests.
What is Pan-Asianism?
This concept involves the process by which a person or group's culture comes to resemble those of another group, often at the expense of their original cultural traits.
What is Assimilation?