Keywords
A term commonly used in America to describe people with origins in the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.
What is Asian American?
Which group of people were put into interment camps by the thousands during World War II?
What is the Japanese?
The domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
What is the FBI?
What country was the author of "Becoming Asian American" born in?
Korea
An offensive word in the past used to describe Asians. Correct usage should be an adjective for things like inanimate objects, not humans.
What is Oriental?
The process by which U.S. citizenship is granted to a lawful permanent resident after meeting the requirements established by Congress in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
What is naturalization?
A form that had to be filled out by Japanese internees which was screened by the FBI to determine if letting them out would endanger national security or the war effort.
What is leave clearance form?
What offensive word was the author of "Becoming Asian American" called by the cab driver in the reading?
What is oriental?
The term is used in the reading "Becoming Asian American" to define what kind of nation America is
What is an imagined nation?
A Japanese-American citizen who did not comply with the order to leave his home and job, despite the fact that his parents had abandoned their home and their flower-nursery business in preparation for reporting to a camp.
What is Fred Korematsu?
A US government agency established to handle the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II
What is the War Relocation Authority (WRA)?
What concept did the author of "Becoming Asian American" struggle with growing up?
What is identity?
a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the ethnically Japanese children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants.
What is Nisei?
What was the name of the lawsuit that attempted to strip all Japanese Americans of their citizenship?
What is Regan vs King?
A national organization that aims to secure and safeguard the civil and human rights of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans and all communities affected by injustice and bigotry.
What is Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)?
The author of "Becoming Asian American" refers to America as a _____________ community
What is imagined?
This term often appears in the writing of Japanese immigrants. Meaning an ‘abandoned people,’ this special term stems from the immigrants’ profound sense of rejection.
What is Kimin?
A column published by famous columnist Walter Lippmann in which he deplored the unwillingness of the federal government to remove enemy aliens from what he called an ‘enemy zone’
What is the Fifth Column on the Coast?
A comprehensive federal immigration law that governs immigration to and citizenship in the United States.
What is the McCarran-Walter Act?
This word is defined relationally or oppositionally to "Oriental"
What is Occidental?