Asian American Movement pt 1
These are 4 of the key terms we examined throughout the AAM unit in regards to coalitions formed among various groups of people
What are Third Worldism, Internationalism, Interracialism, and Panethnicity?
These are the 4 Ethnic Studies fields created from the Third World Strikes, focusing on the 4 core racialized groups:
What are: Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Chicano Studies, and Native American Studies? (common variations mentioned in class accepted)
This immigration act paved the way for the second wave of Asian American immigration.
What is the 1965 Immigration Act and/or the Hart Celler Immigration Act?
These are the 3 AAPI ethnic groups we focused on in our unit on Queer AAPI Experience
Who are: Vietnamese Americans, South Asian Americans, and Native Hawaiians?
These are gendered stereotypes that impacted Asian American men and women pre-1965.
What are hypersexual for Asian American men and seductresses and prostitutes for Asian American women?
These were the 4 student contingents of the Third World Liberation Front.
What are Asian American, Black, Chicano, and Native American contingents?
This was the sentence given to the murderers of Vincent Chin in their murder trial.
What are a $3,000 fine and 3 years of probation each?
The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act preferences ___________ professionals, as opposed to the first wave of Asian American immigration, which preferred _______ workers
What are highly-skilled/highly-educated professionals and blue collar workers (cheap labor will also be accepted)
This is the Native Hawaiian term for people who are "in the middle":
What is Māhū?
These are gendered stereotypes that impacted Asian American men and women post-1965.
What are Asian American men were emasculated and Asian American women were viewed as docile, submissive, and also Tiger moms?
These are 4 of the several core fights of the Asian American Movement we focused on:
What are: 1) The Delano Grape Strike 2) The Fight for Ethnic Studies 3) The anti-war movement 4) The Fight for the I-Hotel 5) Redress and Reparations 6) The Movement for Justice for Vincent Chin
Panethnicity among Asian Americans of all ages resulted from this core fight of the Asian American Movement.
What is the Movement for Justice for Vincent Chin?
For Filipina domestic laborers who work internationally, these are ways they stay connected with family and "mother from a distance":
What are: writing letters home, calling home, sending remittances, and sending gifts to their children?
This is the name of the current Queer South Asian American organization in Chicago.
Hint: it is two words
Hint #2: one of the words is "Chicago"
What is Trikone Chicago?
These were the first 3 units we covered in APIS 1:
What are Immigration & Exclusion, Pasifika Studies, and Displacement and War?
These are the definitions for interracialism and internationalism.
What is coalitions and solidarity amongst people of color in the U.S., thanks to an understanding of their shared experiences of capitalistic exploitation, racial oppression, and imperialism and how Asian American activists are politically inspired by and in solidarity with global movement struggles?
Larry Itliong and Philip Vera Cruz were the Filipino American leaders of this movement.
What is the Delano Grape Strike/United Farm Workers Strike?
This term explains how the government views domestic violence in the United States.
What is "exceptional violence"?
These are 4 of the several responses of gay Vietnamese American men to sexual racism they experience in the LGBTQ+ community, as covered in "Who's Eating Rice":
What are: 1) ignoring the comments 2) responding or fighting back 3) sticky rice politics/dating 4) forming their own Vietnamese and/or Asian queer organizations 5) embracing the stereotypes and fetishization placed upon them 6) rejecting the stereotypes and fetishization by body building and presenting as hyper-masculine?
These were 5 of the times Asian Americans were racially scapegoated throughout U.S. history:
What are: 1) Dusky Peril/Yellow Peril 2) Japanese American mass-incarceration 3) anti-Japanese sentiment in the 1980's 4) post-9/11 Islamophobia 5) Covid-19 anti-Asian violence