Vocabulary
Japanese Americans were forced into these facilities after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Incarceration (internment) camps
This person was the acting president of SFSU during the student strikes.
S.I. Hayakawa
Signed in February 1942, this presidential order authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans
Executive Order 9066
This stereotype portrays Asian Americans as universally successful and hard-working, often pitting them against other communities of color.
The Model Minority Myth
This framework relies on the elimination of Indigenous people to make way for a new government.
Settler Colonialism
This person challenged the constitutionality of WWII incarceration all the way up to the Supreme Court in 1944.
Fred Korematsu
This federal act set aside public lands for Native Hawaiians to those having at least 50% Hawaiian blood quantum.
Hawaiian Homes Commission Act
The 1954 Geneva Agreements declared neutrality for Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. What 1955 U.S. office used this loophole to increase military presence in Laos despite the agreement?
The Programs Evaluations Office
This Cold War ideology argued that racial diversity could be managed through assimilation
Racial liberalism
This person was beaten to death after being mistaken for a Japanese person in Detroit, Michigan in the 1980s.
Vincent Chin
This act disproportionately funneled Southeast Asian refugees into deportation by expanding criminal grounds for removal.
The U.S. secretly dropped over 2 million bombs on this country between 1964-1973.
Laos