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what is race?
a social construct
Were Chinese the first Asians in the Americas?
No, it was Filipinos.
What is the 1850 Foreign Miner's Tax Act?
a tax against Chinese immigrants during the Gold Rush era
What was the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1908?
It prohibited Japanese laborers from coming to the US. However, Japanese laborers were still able to bring over “picture brides” or what they called yobiyose, or the called immigrant.
Who is Dosan Ahn Chang Ho?
Korean independence movement leader. Famed for his actions in establishing Pachappa Camp, the Korean National Association, the New Korea Society, Young Korean Academy, etc.
What is Pachappa Camp?
a Korean Mission and a Korean Labor Bureau. The camp was located in Riverside, CA and Korean Americans living there built cultural capital and worked toward the independence of Korea.
Who is Syngman Rhee?
a Korean independence activist who lived in the United States prior to becoming the first President of South Korea.
How did the 1875 Page Act impact Chinese women?
It denied them entry into the United States.
Who was Charlie Chan?
a fictional Honolulu police detective created by author Earl Derr Biggers for a series of mystery novels. The character of Chan, Fong argues, is problematic and demonstrates how films and media fuel stereotypes of Asian Americans Model Minorities or as a Yellow Peril threat.
What was the 1992 L.A. Civil Unrest?
America's first multiethnic uprising/riot. Korean Americans were adversely affected by the uprising and suffered 40% of the $1 billion in losses.
What was the impact of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act?
The law capped the number of annual visas at 290,000, which included a restriction of 20,000 visas per country per year. Meant to facilitate immigration into the U.S.
When did resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees begin and how many arrived?
began in 1975 and brought 1.2 million Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, and Hmong
Who went to the Supreme Court to gain birthright citizenship?
Wong Kim Ark fought for birthright citizenship and won his case in 1898, thus securing birthright citizenship for all born in this country.
What was the sentiment towards Chinese/Asians during the late 1800s/early 1900s?
Anti-Chinese/Asian hate crimes were on a rise and they were treated as less than White people. Underpaid and overworked.
How are Asian women in Hollywood today represented?
as either Dragon ladies, Tiger moms, or as sexualized objects who are fetishized and objectified.
How were Japanese Americans treated during WW2?
Placed in camps due to Executive Order 9066 signed by President Roosevelt in 1942
Is colorblind ideology is an excellent way to overcome racism and Yellow Peril fears because it adheres to the multiculturalism theoretical framework?
No.
Yellow Peril:
- Categorizes Asians as non-threatening.
- Refers to Asians as a cultural threat as well as economic, political, and military threats to the White race.
- Praises Asian as the best minority group in the world
Refers to Asians as a cultural threat as well as economic, political, and military threats to the White race.
Did notions of the Yellow Peril arise during COVID-19?
Yes, Yellow Peril fears of Asian Americans increased dramatically, and the community suffered from a dramatic increase in anti-Asian hate crimes.
Did Vaishno Das Bagai successfully fight against the stripping of his citizenship and was he able to keep his store in S.F. despite the 1913 Alien Land Law?
No, he lost his citizenship and his SF store which lead to him losing his house.
What is Bảo Trương's story from Inheriting?
parents both fled Vietnam in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War.. His father Thuận was a pilot for the South Vietnamese Air Force. Thuận evacuated nearly 100 people to Thailand on a plane just before the fall of Saigon. In the podcast, Bảo describes a generational divide: his father mourns the Vietnam of his youth (pre-1975), scornful of the current communist government; Bảo himself says he feels nostalgia for Vietnam, but a different kind; more about identity and belonging than the politics of his father’s generation.
What does Yuko Kawai in her article "Dialectic of the Model Minority and Yellow Peril" argue?
That the two ideologies are inseparable, they are not poles but form a circular relationship
What is Leah Bash's story from Inheriting?
Her family was incarcerated alongside 125,000 other Japanese Americans during World War II. Her father and his six siblings spent more than three years behind barbed wire at isolated camps in Manzanar, California and Crystal City, Texas. Her mother's side was also incarcerated during the Japanese American incarceration period during World War II.
What is Leialani Wihongi-Santos' story from Inheriting?
She is CHamoru and was raised in Guam. In her NPR episode of "Inheriting," she discusses growing up on Guam, her CHamoru heritage, and how she later re-learned and reclaimed aspects of her identity, especially in light of historical occupation, cultural erasure, and U.S. military presence on Guam.
What term was coined after a work by artist Herman Knackfuss titled "Peoples of Europe, Defend Your Holiest Possessions"?
“Yellow Peril”
the painting depicts an archangel gesturing toward a Buddha riding a dragon, in an attempt to persuade the nations of Europe to band together against Asia. The painting was published in 1895 and when Japan defeated China in the Sino Japanese war that year, the threat of the east became ever more real.