Immigration Act
This act allowed people to enter the US as refugees for humanitarian reasons.
What is the Refugee Act of ....?
"Free White Male" was the only category of people eligible for citizenship under this act.
What is the Naturalization Act of ....?
Out of this war the U.S. government began to craft a singular Asian American identity.
What is WWII?
They were the first group of migrant worker brought to work in Hawaii's sugar plantations.
Who are Japanese migrant workers?
This theory refers to how race is social and historically constructed.
What is racial formations?
This agreement stopped the movement of Japanese migrant workers to the U.S.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement of ....?
People claimed to be white for citizenship in these cases.
What were Racial Prerequisite Cases?
These war were fought between Britain and China over control of trade.
What are the Opium War?
This country represent the high number of international adoption in the U.S.
What is Korea?
These laws are the subject of Pascoe's book.
What are miscegenation laws?
This part of the 1917 Immigration Act stopped immigration from all of Asia, expect the Philippines.
What is the Asiatic Barred Zone?
Along other things, this act set a quota of 50 immigrants per year from the Philippines, even though they were U.S. nationals.
What is the Tydings McDuffie Act of ....?
What is Agent Orange and napalm?
This group was the first specifically targeted from exclusion?
Who are Chinese migrant workers?
This reading pushes against the idea that only in the U.S. are their children exposed to non-hetero sexuality.
What is "Stories from the Home Front" by Manalansan.
This act ended racial considerations in immigration quotas.
What is the Hart-Celler Act of ....?
These law discouraged permanent settlement of Asian immigrants by limiting how much property these could own.
What are the Alien Land Laws?
The U.S. denied this countries independence efforts and kept it as a colony in this war.
What is the Philippines and the Philippine-American War?
Out of this struggle an Asian American identity first started to be articulated.
What is the San Francisco State strike?
This book offers a fictional portrayal of Orientalism.
What is Madame Butterfly?
This act instituted national origins quotas.
What is the .... Immigration Act?
This complex set of programs allowed people fleeing war to enter the U.S., but without permanent residence.
What is the Parole Program of ....?
This is the First War in which napalm was used
What is the Korean War?
People from this place were originally allowed free travel to the U.S.
What is the Philippines?
Professor Kwak highly recommends this movie on the Viet Nam War.
What is Hearts and Minds?