Asian American history
This law, passed in 1882, was the first major restriction on Asian immigration to the US.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
As a lawyer for the Asian Legal Caucus, he fought the eviction of International Hotel residents before going on to be the first Asian American mayor of San Francisco.
Who is Ed Lee?
This major east-west artery was widened into an "expressway" in the 1960s, cutting off neighboring minority communities from each other.
What is Geary Boulevard?
This practice was used by government agencies and private banks to deny loans in neighborhoods deemed undesirable, generally home to residents of color.
What is redlining?
San Francisco's Chinatown was founded in the 1850s, during this defining event in Californian history.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This Filipino American was in "High School Musical: The Series" and went on to become a viral sensation in her recent tour.
Who is Olivia Rodrigo?
The United States took control of the Philippines as an American colony after this 1898 war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
On the former site of the International Hotel, there is currently a building used for this purpose.
What is affordable senior housing?
This neighborhood, once known as a heart of the West Coast's jazz scene, was a focus of demolition and urban renewal from the 1950s to the 1970s.
What is the Fillmore (or Western Addition)?
This landmark California law, recently targeted for reform efforts, requires state and local agencies to review a wide range of projects and mitigate their impacts.
What is the California Environmental Quality Act?
Asian immigrants to San Francisco were processed on this island, known as the "Ellis Island of the West".
What is Angel Island?
Known through her alias, she is a half Black, half Filipino singer from Vallejo, California who has won multiple Grammy Awards and was recently in the live-action adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast".
Who is H.E.R.?
Nineteenth century Chinese immigrants used this nickname to refer to San Francisco, and later, much of the West Coast.
What is Gold Mountain?
The International Hotel was an example of this type of housing, abbreviated as "SRO" and frequently targeted for redevelopment.
What is "single room occupancy"?
Residential hotels in SoMa home to low-income residents were cleared to make way for a site hosting these cultural and economic institutions (name at least one).
What are Yerba Buena Gardens, Moscone Center, and SFMOMA?
Founded in 1965, this federal cabinet department is responsible for urban development grants, public housing funding, and fair housing enforcement.
What is the Department of Housing and Urban Development (or HUD)?
White City leaders proposed relocating Chinatown to Hunters Point after it was destroyed in this disaster.
What is the 1906 San Francisco earthquake?
This famous singer has been featured in many Broadway musicals and Disney movies and soundtracks.
Who is Lea Salonga?
Filipino sailors from these Spanish sailing ships settled in Louisiana in the mid-1700s, becoming the earliest known Asian residents in what is now the United States.
What are galleons?
This Filipino American activist, featured in the Vox video we just watched, played a key role as head of the International Hotel Tenants Association.
Who is Emil DeGuzman?
Critics of development in the 1960s and 1970s coined this term to oppose the construction of skyscrapers in San Francisco.
What is "Manhattanization"?
These clauses were widely used to bar people of color from purchasing or renting homes in white neighborhoods until the passage of the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
What are racially restrictive covenants?
Today, the most common language spoken in Chinatown is this southeastern Chinese language.
This politician was the first Filipino American legislator in the California State Assembly and currently serves as the Attorney General for the State of California.
Who is Rob Bonta?
President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed for this law, which eliminated discriminatory immigration quotas and created a modern wave of Asian Americans.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (or Hart-Celler Act)?
This famous singer and actress, known for starring in films like Funny Girl and The Way We Were, got her start at the "hungry i" nightclub, located in the International Hotel building from 1954 to 1967.
Who is Barbra Streisand?
Name two of the four active City-led redevelopment zones in San Francisco.
What are Transbay, Mission Bay, Hunters Point, and Candlestick Point?
The dominant form of land use regulation in the United States derives from a 1926 Supreme Court case involving this small Ohio town, which shares its name with a Greek mathematician known as the "father of Geometry".
Who/what is Euclid?
The City enacted racist public health measures against Asian residents of Chinatown during an outbreak of this disease from 1900 to 1904.
What is bubonic plague?
This labor organizer from Delano, California led the Grape Strike.
Who is Larry Itliong?